An annual competition among computational biochemists is held by an organization called Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP). The winning 2020 entrant was from DeepMind, a British machine learning-based company. This team tweaked their earlier work into refinement that outpaced not only the competing platforms but also previous efforts in this mode protein folding field. n...

Resumo: Neste estudo, que tem por objeto as revistas culturais brasileiras da década de 1970, nos dedicamos a analisar duas das mais conhecidas publicações periódicas surgiram e circularam no período: Argumento – revista mensal cultura Almanaque cadernos literatura ensaio, pelos vínculos se evidenciam entre elas pela situação particular cada uma dessas concerne seus projetos editorias relação c...

Rabbit Holes and Butterfly Effects: Narrative Probabilities Climate Science1 Marco Caracciolo (bio) Probability is a central concept in scientific models of causation. When I say, for instance, that ‘smoking causes lung cancer,’ am not implying smoking will necessarily result cancer; only suggesting strong (causal) relationship between habits the incidence cancer. That probabilistic based on st...

It is difficult to date the start of interest in the clinical importance of congenital anomalies of the heart. Sporadic reports certainly appeared from autopsy and dissecting rooms from the seventeenth century onwards. By the eighteenth century, that most entrepreneurial of centuries, the basics of British cardiology were being laid down. Stephen Hales' physiologic researches were running in pa...

This chronic disease is characterised by slowly spreading changes in one or more bones, the changes consisting of decalcification coupled with hyperostosis and with the marrow spaces in the transformed bone occupied, partially or completely, by vascular fibrous tissue. Czerny (1873) suggested the name osteitis deformans, but ever since the publication in 1877 of Paget’s paper, in which he descr...

And from this it follows that weak generative capacity, as usually conceived, cannot be the right notion of complexity to study in connection with human language (even if it were to be measured by a yardstick different from the Chomsky hierarchy). Important as the three papers I have mentioned are, my favorite is the previously unpublished---and, this time, brand new-pape r by Savitch on contex...

painting and art criticism are based on two different semiotic systems. the expression in painting is basically visual and in criticism is verbal. on the other hand, all expression is linguistic, that is expression and comprehension in all semiotic systems is basically linguistic. the art criticism, then, is situated between two poles: visual signs and verbal signs. it has as function to reorga...

View Large Image Figure ViewerDownload Hi-res image Download (PPT) Robert was an older man who lived independently and worked full time. He diagnosed simultaneously with metastatic cancer myasthenia gravis, autoimmune neuromuscular disorder that causes muscle weakness in the eyes, face, throat. Due to his cancer, only treatment available high-dose steroids. While strength improved, he later hos...

The indefatigable Dale Allison is widely known for his excellent New Testament commentaries and studies. Here we have something distinctly different, though perhaps not surprising to those familiar with overall oeuvre, where aspects of long-term interest in religious experiences around the world already become evident (as latter part Resurrection Jesus, [London: T&T Clark, 2021]). fascinated by...

His mother wrote “I taught him to read quite early—partly in self-defence, for when he became absorbed in a book he ceased to ask questions.” To prove to him that methane was lighter than air and to demonstrate the effects of breathing methane, his father took him crawling into a mine, asked him to stand up and recite Mark Anthony’s speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. “Friends, Romans and ...