Pythagoras is going places …
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Polyphenol oxidases in plants and fungi: going places? A review.
The more recent reports on polyphenol oxidase in plants and fungi are reviewed. The main aspects considered are the structure, distribution, location and properties of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) as well as newly discovered inhibitors of the enzyme. Particular stress is given to the possible function of the enzyme. The cloning and characterization of a large number of PPOs is surveyed. Although th...
متن کاملBeyond Pythagoras
This paper discusses the new harmonic possibilities enabled through the implementation of Sethares’ theory of the dissonance curve in Max/MSP and its use in a live electronic composition by two of the authors.
متن کاملGoing, Going, Gone: Is Animal Migration Disappearing
Essay A nimal migration surely ranks as one of nature's most visible and widespread phenomena. Every minute of every day, somewhere, some place, animals are on the move. The migrants span the animal kingdom, from whales and warblers to dragonflies and salamanders. But is migration an endangered phenomenon? Around the world, many of the most spectacular migrations have either disappeared due to ...
متن کاملRelieving and Readjusting Pythagoras
Bill James invented the Pythagorean expectation in the late 70’s to predict a baseball team’s winning percentage knowing just their runs scored and allowed. His original formula estimates a winning percentage of RS/(RS+RA), where RS stands for runs scored and RA for runs allowed; later versions found better agreement with data by replacing the exponent 2 with numbers near 1.83. Miller and his c...
متن کاملPythagoras Numbers of Fields
The study of sums of squares in a ring or a field is a classic topic in algebra and number theory. In this context, several questions arise naturally. For example, which elements can be represented as sums of squares, and if an element can be written as a sum of squares, how many squares are actually needed ? For instance, for an integer n to be a sum of squares of integers, we must obviously h...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pythagoras
سال: 2008
ISSN: 2223-7895,1012-2346
DOI: 10.4102/pythagoras.v0i68.61