biological imagery, and three specifically medical; four on art and archaeology; two on cognitive science; and nine on applications, mainly related to computer imaging. The role of images in the history of the sciences has been shamefully neglected until recently (historians of medical science have been shining exceptions here, perhaps as a result of their training in a set of pervasively visua...

A window server used in real-time applications should be able to assure previously agreed-upon redrawing rates for a subset of windows while providing best-effort services to the remaining windows and operations such as moving windows. A window server used in embedded systems should be small and require only minimal operating system support, for example just threads and address spaces as provid...

Recombinant spider silk has emerged as a biomaterial that can circumvent problems associated with synthetic and naturally derived polymers, while still fulfilling the potential of native material. The artificial protein NT2RepCT be produced spun into fibers without use harsh chemicals here we evaluate key properties dope at native-like concentrations. We show recapitulates not only overall seco...

In an age when doping was almost a way of life it was only a short step from the poisoning of man to the poisoning of animals. In classical antiquity there are examples of both doping to win and doping to lose. Diomedes, the son of Aries and Cyrene, fed his horses on human flesh to make them savage and unbeatable, while Medea used an opiate to stupefy the dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece. ...

Partially randomized (doped) pools are important for optimizing activities initially isolated by selection-amplification or SELEX, and for locating nucleotides critical for function. Here we present a method for calculating the number of unique sequences in a pool, and the expected copy number of each unique sequence with a specified number of changes from the original sequence. Surprisingly, s...