Previous articleNext article FreeThe Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of Biosecurity RegimeLydia H. LiuLydia Liu Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore26 May 2020It makes a world difference where novel coronavirus travels. For first time...

A serious discussion took place between P. Curie in Paris and E. Rutherford in Montreal from 1900 until 1904 through the medium of scientific publications. P. and M. Curie had observed that radium produces “induced radioactivity”, whereas, at the same time, Rutherford had observed that thorium emits a kind of “emanation”. P. Curie, performing different experiments with his collaborators, believ...

UNDERSTANDING AND ENGINEERING THE COLLAGEN TRIPLE HELIX Matthew Donald Shoulders Under the supervision of Professor Ronald T. Raines At the University of Wisconsin-Madison This thesis presents a hypothesis-driven approach to collagen research that integrates the power of organic chemistry with the tools of biophysics to enhance our understanding of proline conformation and collagen structure an...

The history of Current Algebra is reviewed up to the appearance of the Adler-Weisberger sum rule. Particular emphasis is given to the role of current algebra in the historical struggle in strong interaction physics of elementary particles between field theory and the S-matrix approach based on dispersion relations. The question as to whether some particles are truly fundamental or all hadrons a...

The object-oriented, scripting language Ruby, is becoming popular in information technology and computer-oriented educational programs. Yukihiro Matsumoto has indicated that the language was designed with the principle of “least surprise” to help programmers convert ideas into working programs quickly and to have fun. Ruby was designed for applications in many of the modern application areas of...

Standing on the south bank of Thames, today, its chimneys reconstructed, brickwork restored, roof replaced, Battersea Power Station betrays few troubles that plagued development and redevelopment (Figure 1). Like many London’s power stations, began as two separate units: A, western wing, opened in 1933, B, eastern 1955. Unlike these other however, which ‘B’ building formed an ad hoc response to...

Laughter as a vocal expressive-communicative signal is one of the least understood and most frequently overlooked human behaviors. The chapter provides an overview of what we know about laughter in terms of respiration, vocalization, facial action, and body movement and attempts to illustrate the mechanisms of laughter and to define its elements. The importance of discriminating between spontan...

We look at the circumstances and context of Cantor’s famous remark, “I see it, but I don’t believe it.” We argue that, rather than denoting astonishment at his result, the remark pointed to Cantor’s worry about the correctness of his proof. Mathematicians love to tell each other stories. We tell them to our students too, and they eventually pass them on. One of our favorites, and one that I hea...

The introduction of speech synthesizers and modern acoustic analysis in the mid-20th century allowed speech perception research to flourish, encouraging a period of broadly-based empirical work. Experiments examined diverse influences from information processing (intelligibility, statistical decision-making), biology/psychology (audition, memory, learning, hemispheric dominance), and linguistic...

Following in the footsteps of seminal studies like E. W. Soja Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (2000) or Miwon Kwon One Place After Another: Site-specific Art and Locational Identity (2004), this article constitutes a contribution to our current understanding of contemporary societies, more specifically to the shaping of urban identities and the role of contemporary art wh...