From Myth to Muse

From Myth to History

Since the 1860s, biologists have repeatedly referred to Lamarck as one of the founding fathers of modern evolutionary doctrines, a claim hotly denied by most of their colleagues. Lamarck’s name has often been evoked to contrast his insistence on acquired individual variations with the mainstream interpretation of the Darwinian doctrine, which stresses the constant presence within a population o...

From Chloroform to Melpomene, Liebig's Muse of Tragedy.

Intracellular angiotensin II: from myth to reality?

Introduction The importance of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) was first recognised in 1934. 1 Extensive research started in the mid-1950s by Skeggs and co-workers, who identified the transformation of a decapeptide into an octapeptide by a factor from horse blood plasma. 2,3 At that time, the two pep-tides were called hypertensin I and hypertensin II. In the same year, the laboratory synthe...

Muse Achievements: Executive Summary

The project was organised in two consecutive phases, which ran between January 2004 and March 2008. During the first phase, MUSE defined and demonstrated a multi-service access architecture based on IP (Internet Protocol) / Ethernet technology. The second phase advanced the architecture into a more mature solution and extended it with additional service capabilities for multimedia and fixed mob...

The Muse Approach to Or - Parallel

Muse (Multi-sequential Prolog engines) is a simple and eecient approach to Or-parallel execution of Prolog programs. It is based on having several sequential Prolog engines, each with its local address space, and some shared memory space. It is currently implemented on a 7-processors machine with local/shared memory constructed at SICS, a 16-processors Sequent Symmetry, a 96-processors BBN Butt...