‘Pearls and Jade’ Pothos

The rice genome. The most precious things are not jade and pearls.

T he most precious things are not jade and pearls but the five grains. " The five grains referred to in this Chinese saying are most likely to be rice, wheat, millet, sorghum, and maize (1). These cereal grains account for up to 60% of the calories consumed by people in the developing world (2). We could also apply this saying to the valuable genetic information that cereals contain—especially ...

Pearls

What do you think about highimpact journals that cater to a wider audience? I used to think that such journals were for the vain and insecure; however, I’ve just had my first article accepted by Current Biology, so I must of course reconsider. I think there is a place for journals suited to the more general reader, but I do worry that the decisions for some journals — even on whether to send th...

Jade 25.3

Capsulorhexis: Pearls and pitfalls.

A critical step in phacoemulsification (as well as extracapsular cataract extraction) is making a window in anterior capsule wall (i.e. anterior capsulotomy). Continuous Curvilinear Capsulorhexis (CCC) has become recognized as the standard method of anterior capsulectomy. Techniques employed for CCC have undergone sustained evolution. The present review evaluates elementary principles of CCC. M...

Applications experience in Jade

This paper presents our experience developing applications in Jade, a portable, implicitly parallel programming language designed for exploiting task-level concurrency. Jade programmers start with a program written in a standard serial, imperative language, then use Jade constructs to describe how parts of the program access data. The Jade implementation analyzes this information to automatical...