Life Support—The Essentials

Bringing Climate Change into the Life Science Classroom: Essentials, Impacts on Life, and Addressing Misconceptions

For teachers looking for a quick and thorough overview of the most basic and compelling data on climate change, an excellent starting place is the introductory section “Current Climate Change” in the Climate Science Primer available through the U.S. Forest Service Climate Change Resource Center (www.fs.usda.gov/ccrc/climate-basics/ climate-primer). The primer is text-based and concise and inclu...

Topic Essentials

An overview of TOPIC is provided, a knowledge-based text information system for the analysis of Germanlanguage texts. TOPIC supplies text condensates (summaries) on variable degrees of generality and makes available facts acquired from the texts. The presentation focuses on the major methodological principles underlying the design of TOPIC: a frame representation model that incorporates various...

PicoSAT Essentials

In this article we describe and evaluate optimized compact data structures for watching literals. Experiments with our SAT solver PicoSAT show that this low-level optimization not only saves memory, but also turns out to speed up the SAT solver considerably. We also discuss how to store proof traces compactly in memory and further unique features of PicoSAT including an aggressive restart sched...

Essentials of Clinical Supervision

Essentials of Dermatology