The practice of livecoding borrows heavily from the techniques and vocabulary of music and computer programming. In a setting where the design, implementation, execution, and reflective redesign of software systems are simultaneously overlaid and entangled with sonic creativity in the moment, traditional vocabularies fail to offer more than ambiguous metaphor. This paper uses examples from cfml...

One is a writer and journalist and the other is an academic biologist. Both write highly regarded popular books on evolutionary biology, a subject they are both passionate about. Titles, such as The Red Queen and Mendel's Demon, have been created by them, gaining wide critical acclaim. The problem is that both have the bibliographic signature 'Ridley, M'. Matt the journalist and Mark the biolog...

The supramolecular conformation that keeps mucins interconnected in the mucus gel matrix is still uncertain. In the granule, a Ca-bonded matrix keeps mucus condensed. Upon exocytosis, Na/Ca exchange removes Ca bonds, triggering characteristic polymer gel phase transition and massive swelling (1). Failure to remove Ca by increased extracellular Ca inhibits mucus hydration (2). Transepithelial mo...

River dolphins are some of the world's least-known and endangered species of mammals. Although better-known marine dolphins are found in estuaries, river dolphins represent four distinct genera each inhabiting different river basins such as the Amazon, Ganges, Indus and Yangtze. But their relationship to each other and other cetaceans has been puzzling and disputed. One of the key problems is t...

This paper reports an empirical study to automatically evaluate the ability of T-PEG (Hong and Ong 2009) to extract joke templates by providing it with a corpus of punning riddles produced by another system, STANDUP (Manurung et al. 2008). This setup allows us to compare the extracted templates against the underlying data structures used by STANDUP in generating the corpus. In our setup, T-PEG ...

Introduction A recent Channel 4 television series, Secrets of the Dead, had one programme entitled “The Syphilis Enigma.” It presented evidence, summarised in book form, which challenged the accepted view that venereal syphilis came to Europe with the return of Columbus from his first voyage of discovery of the New World. This new and challenging case is based on a study of over 240 skeletons e...

The reason or reasons why it took Sir Arnold Theiler so many years to unravel the riddle of the aetiology of lamsiekte in cattle and whether P.R. Viljoen's lifelong grudge for receiving insufficient credit from Theiler for his research contribution was justified are analysed in this paper. By 1912, Theiler knew that Duncan Hutcheon had advocated the use of bonemeal as a prophylactic against...

From the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Corresponding author: Peter T. Walling, MD, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75246. As I look at the full moon on a clear night, light travels between the moon and me in just over 1 second, enters my eyes...

In a recent article Steven Rosefielde has argued that (1) according to the best available statistics the postwar growth of Russia under the command system was surprisingly good (2) economic theory requires that nonmarket systems must fail by comparison with market economies (3) the statistics are therefore at fault: they “lied and were misconstrued” by western “statistically oriented comparativ...