The prospect of composing music by means of technology can be intimidating for students unaccustomed to the challenges of the contemporary digital studio. Computers are, perhaps inevitably, associated with scientific laboratories — an image which is hardly conducive to lengthy, creative study. Rows of apparently inert black or grey boxes rarely offer a pleasurable sensation comparable to the im...

BACKGROUND Open acetabular fractures in children are rare, but potentially devastating injuries. Secondary to the low incidence, there is an apparent lack of reports on appropriate management strategies for open pediatric acetabular fractures in the literature. METHODS Description of a case study. RESULTS A 3 years and ten months-old girl was ejected as a passenger from an all terrain vehic...

Pinctada fucata martensii and P. maxima are two main traditional pearl oyster species that can produce seawater pearls. Our previous study showed a higher clearance rate (CR) growth performance in f. than fed with Isochrysis galbana . In this study, the juveniles of sizes (large small) were six different microalgae diets [ I. ( I ), Platymonas subcordiformis P Chaetoceros muelleri I, I+P, I+C, ...

We show that static sources coupled to a massless scalar eld in Schwarzschild spacetime give rise to emission and absorption of zero-energy particles due to the presence of Hawking radiation. This is in complete analogy with the description of the bremsstrahlung by a uniformly accelerated charge from the coaccelerated observers' point of view. The response rate of the source is found to coincid...

We consider information flow via physical transport of inscribed media through space and compare it to information flow via electromagnetic radiation. Somewhat counterintuitively for point to point links, physical transport of inscribed mass is often energetically more efficient by many orders of magnitude than electromagnetic broadcast. And perhaps more surprising, even in a broadcast setting ...

The growth of molluscan shell crystals is generally thought to be initiated from the extrapallial fluid by matrix proteins, however, the cellular mechanisms of shell formation pathway remain unknown. Here, we first report amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) precipitation by cellular biomineralization in primary mantle cell cultures of Pinctada fucata. Through real-time PCR and western blot analys...