LLPOH Digital Archives: December 2003
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Limited Liability and Litigation - to be explored ... [more]
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explore Agricultural Economics, Agricultural productivity, Agricultural prices, med issues and Famous topics (by the way Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. is worth reading ... thanks mike)
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Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Terse Conclusions: "A couple of good ideas were kicking around in 1993 that we haven't done yet, but I hope we will someday. In 1978, Pauline Atherton indexed the contents pages and indexes of books. She showed the recall and precision of searches on these terms was much better than searches on catalog records. In 1979, Charles Bernier and Neil Yerkey believed that even the abstracts in most fields were an information overload. They created one-sentence terse conclusions to represent 102 articles on heart disease. When you read these conclusions, you immediately see that sucrose is a major culprit. People hadn't seen this before because the amount of information just overwhelmed the human ability to comprehend it." [follow up on Eugene garfield comment]
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Mountains Growing Feet? At least that's what crossed my mind when I read this headline 'Report: Mountains grew a foot in Calif. quake' (CNN). Turns out they were talking about height not body parts. The story goes on to say "LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- California's largest earthquake in four years struck on Monday, causing planet Earth to ring "like a bell" and mountains to grow a foot." That's awesome/scary ... and then there was this devastating Iranian quake ... looks like a shaky start (or prestart) to the new year. Hope this wraps up the big quake news for a while. About this ringing like a bell business, how 'bout leaving that to those doing their Christmas thing ... [Following up it appears there's a nice U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program Website provided by Uncle Sam. Neat!]
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Starting the Great Issues page. Constructive comments and suggestions are welcome. In time, maybe something good will come out of it. Its sobering to know that it took 22 years from the time the decision to create what was to become the OED to the time the first items were actually set in print (in the precursor to the OED). Oh sober sober sober ... and they didn't have any powerpoints to deal with either.
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Its worth recalling that Prusiner introduced us to Prions in Science. 1982 Apr 9;216(4542):136-44 paper Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause scrapie. ... Here the abstract:
"After infection and a prolonged incubation period, the scrapie agent causes a degenerative disease of the central nervous system in sheep and goats. Six lines of evidence including sensitivity to proteases demonstrate that this agent contains a protein that is required for infectivity. Although the scrapie agent is irreversibly inactivated by alkali, five procedures with more specificity for modifying nucleic acids failed to cause inactivation. The agent shows heterogeneity with respect to size, apparently a result of its hydrophobicity; the smallest form may have a molecular weight of 50,000 or less. Because the novel properties of the scrapie agent distinguish it from viruses, plasmids, and viroids, a new term "prion" is proposed to denote a small proteinaceous infectious particle which is resistant to inactivation by most procedures that modify nucleic acids. Knowledge of the scrapie agent structure may have significance for understanding the causes of several degenerative diseases."
(more on prions)
There may be some good news involving prions according to a recent note in The Scientist. The note suggests the "mechanism by which prions change their shape and aggregate might be put to good use in biological systems. In back-to-back papers in the December 26 issue of Cell, researchers ascribe prion-like properties to an elegant mechanism involved in maintaining memory."
We'll be watching for developments, may be some good will come of (cow) madness.
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POWERpoint returns to the Headlines, or is it powerPoint, or ppt, or DDT? ... it maybe really toxic to the brain ... sort of seduces the optical nerve .... is this a form of Blindsight? (according to wiki ... may also be experienced by healthy people when attention is elsewhere or the image happens too fast for them to become aware of it. ... might be exploited by advertisers as a form of subliminal messaging ... does this have anything to do with Consciousness?) in any case ... David Byrne has released E.E.E.I. (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information) ... of which Peter Norvig, engineering director at Google Inc says "People are asking whether, ultimately, PowerPoint makes us all stupid, or does it help us streamline our thoughts? ...... My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it." (related post on avoiding bad powerpoint ...), [via gtexts, via courierpress].
This stuff could lead to Coercion, Collapse, Consequences, Corruption, and Crisis. Or it could lead to Deeper Decay, it may Destroy, Devour, and Endanger Greed and Hypocrisy; it may affect the Pathetic Permissive attitudes of the Radical Self-serving Shallow Sick Sensationalist Slick Salesmen; It could lead to Urgent reconsideration of Waste. OK is this enough? You could do some pretty strange things with emotional trigger words as well.
Can we get on with the presentation? I think I'm getting PowerPoint Withdrawl Symptoms?
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Lookin for Atlas ... actually, looking for Coffman's Treasure Atlas (Atlas of Treasure Maps, by F.L. Coffman, 1957?) So far, all we found was this [more]
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take a look at China, 1421 and The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne .... China scoops Colombus? could it be? but Spain still gets the credit ... like Mike, they just did it, and followed up.
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'From Tax to Riches'? Or was it 'From Shmaatess to Rags to Riches'? ... U.S. Master Tax Guide, 2003 claims to have insights on things red blooded Americans really care about now ... like -- New Tax Developments -- Tax Rates and Tax Tables -- Individuals -- Corporations -- S Corporations -- Partnerships -- Trusts and Estates -- Exempt Organizations -- Income -- Exclusions from Income -- Business Expenses -- Non-Business Expenses -- Losses and Bad Debt -- Depreciation, Amortization, and Depletion -- Tax Credits -- Minimum Tax -- Tax Accounting -- Basis for Gain or Loss -- Sales, Exchanges, and Capital Gains -- Installment Sales/Deferred Payment Sales -- Securities Transactions -- Tax Shelters -- At-Risk Rules/Passive Loss Rules -- Retirement Plans -- Corporate Acquisitions/Reorganizations -- Taxation of Foreign Activities/Taxpayers -- Returns and Payment of Tax -- Withholding and Estimated Taxes -- Examination of Returns -- Collection of Tax -- Penalties and Interest -- Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Tax ... so what's to think about ... it may be worth taking a look at it ....as well as these gems ... (note, you might want to check if these apply to the coming tax season) .... Guidebook to California Taxes, 2003 .... Guidebook to Texas Taxes, 2003 ... Guidebook to New York Taxes, 2003 .... CCH Analysis of Top Tax Issues, 2003 ... so happy new year already. [more]
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Monday, December 29, 2003
Inspiration ... inspires many works ... on inspiration
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So what is this CHARTISM? According to the Encyclopædia Britannica " ... a British working-class movement for parliamentary reform named after the People's Charter, a bill drafted by the London radical William Lovett in May 1838. It contained six demands: universal manhood suffrage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, annually elected Parliaments, payment of members of Parliament, and abolition of the property qualifications for membership. Chartism was the first movement both working-class in character and national in scope that grew out of the protest against the social injustices of the new industrial order in Britain." the movement faded but the objectives were achieved ... lots to learn from these.
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I was looking for words the other day ... or perhaps today ... I randomly walked into a site and before I knew it ... it gurgitated (perhaps regurgitated) all these: activism, address, affair, affiliation, age of reason, almoner, ancien regime, anomie, anonym, ant, anthropologist, anthropology, antifeminist, apis mellifera, asocial, assemblage, assembly, association, auto limitation, background, backlash, ballroom dance, ballroom dancing, ban, bee, benight, bind, biologism, block grant, bond, bourgeoisie, brahman, brahmanism, brahmin, brahminism, breach, break, breeding, bumblebee, calendar, call, caller, caseworker, caste, caste system, causerie, celebrate, chartism, chartist, child psychology, child welfare agency, child welfare service, chitchat, civic center, civics, civil, civilized, civil order, civil right, civil rights, clannish, class, class feeling, classless, class struggle, class war, class warfare, climber, cliquish, close-knit, closely knit, clubby, coming together, commerce, commission on human rights, commission on narcotic drugs, commission on the status of women, community center, community chest, company, control, cornhusking, correctness, costume, court, culture, dealings, dementia praecox, democratic, developmental psychology, diffusion, disability insurance, discourteous, do-gooder, domination, drone, dropout, duty, economic and social council, economic and social council commission, economic commission for africa, economic commission for asia and the far east, economic commission for europe, economic commission for latin america, economics, economic science, ecosoc, ecosoc commission, education, egalitarian, egalitarianism, elite, emancipated, emmet, enlightenment, equalitarianism, estate, estate of the realm, ethic, ethical, event planner, falling out, family unit, fete champetre, feudalism, feudal system, fica, field day, fluid, folk, form of government, foster home, four hundred, frat, fraternity, function, gab, gabfest, gadabout, garden party, gathering, gauche, genetic psychology, get around, get together, gossip, graceless, graciousness, group dynamics, health care, henrik ibsen, home, honeybee, host, house, household, humanitarian, humblebee, husking bee, ibsen, impoliteness, improper, improver, incorrectness, infantile autism, in good taste, in poor taste, interest, interest group, intermarry, introvert, isoptera, justly, labor, labour, lawn party, leveler, leveller, liberal, liberated, lion-hunter, lionize, loosely knit, love feast, lower class, machinery, mahayana, manners, matriarchate, matriarchy, medical social worker, meeting, menage, meritocracy, mesalliance, methodism, middle class, mobile, moral principle, naked mole rat, national insurance, niceness, nihilism, nom de guerre, noncivilized, normal, nouveau-riche, nuptials, oas, obligation, occasion, oral phase, oral stage, order isoptera, organism, organization of american states, organize, outing, paper wasp, parvenu, parvenue, patriarchate, patriarchy, picnic, pismire, policy, polished, polite, politeness, political, political economy, politically, political relation, political scientist, political system, politics, polity, population commission, proletariat, pseudonym, psychopathic personality, punk, punk rock, purdah, queen, race problem, rank, reaction, realism, reconstructed, refined, reform movement, responsibility, restraint, revolutionary, revolutionist, rift, rip van winkle, ritual, ritualist, roman fleuve, rugged individualism, rupture, sanction, savoir-faire, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, see, segregation, separation, severance, small talk, snobbery, snobbish, snobbishness, snobby, social activity, social class, social climber, social dancing, social development commission, social group, socialisation, sociality, socialization, socialize, socializing, socially connected, social occasion, social policy, social rank, social season, social secretary, social security, social security administration, social security number, social station, social status, social stratification, social unit, social worker, society, sociobiologist, sociobiology, sociocultural, socioeconomic, socio-economic class, sociolinguist, sociologist, sociometry, sociopathic personality, solitude, sorority, sovietize, standing, station, statistical commission, stratification, stratify, structuralism, student union, sturm und drang, subculture, subversive, subverter, supper, svelte, swing, taboo, tabu, tasteless, termite, tie, tie-up, tittle-tattle, tory, traffic, training, tribe, turbulence, ultimacy, ultimateness, unconventional, underclass, unemployment, unethical, ungracious, unlawful, unpolished, upheaval, upper class, upper crust, upstart, urbane, utopia, utopian, utopianism, value orientation, values, value-system, vespid, vespid wasp, vespula, vespula maculifrons, wallflower, wasp, wedding, wedding ceremony, welfare worker, well-connected, whig, white ant, worker, working class, yellow hornet, yellow jacket, youth crusade, youth movement
... wow , what a collection of interesting unrelated words ... or maybe they're related ... somewhere someone links a naked mole rat with a white ant and yellow hornets with youth crusades ... is this the butterfly effect gone wild?
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Wanna be the expert? Just Do It! and do it often! According to K. Anders Ericsson and Jacqui Smith, the net result (captured in Toward a General Theory of Expertise : Prospects and Limits) is this: "Laboratory analyses of chessmasters, experts in physics, medicine, international-level musicians, athletes, writers, and performance artists have allowed us to carefully examine the cognitive processes mediating outstanding performance in very diverse areas of expertise. These analyses have shown that expert performance is primarily a reflection of acquired skill resulting from the accumulation of domain-specific knowledge and methods during many years of training and practice rather than special innate talent. Confronted with universal limits of human information processing concerning memory capacity and speed of processing, expert performers are found to be able to acquire similar types of skills to circumvent these limits. General findings on expertise are systematized to lay the foundation of a general theory of expertise. In this book, many of the world's foremost scientists studying expert performance in specific domains of expertise review the state-of-the-art knowledge about expertise in these domains with the goal of identifying characteristics of expert performance that can be generalized across many different areas of expertise. These papers provide a comprehensive summary of general methods to study expertise and the current knowledge about expertise in chess, physics, medicine, sports, performing arts, music, writing, and decision-making." ...So, its great to have talent, but in the long run training and practice makes (near) perfect ... talent gets you there a lot quicker ... training and reflection lets you recognize the fruitful opportunities.
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Fractals Revisit ... Yup, its time to revisit those pesky fractals again. Actually, they're not pesky at all, probably perky is more like it, but ... the reasons will become clear later ... its just getting way too late.
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Sunday, December 28, 2003
Antarctica Bacteria might be effective against cancer. at least that's the impression arising from a Press Trust of India New Delhi, December 26 story in Hindustan Times
The story states "Three species of bacteria brought back from Antarctica by an Indian expedition contain high amounts of a cancer preventing substance .... The "anabaena", "nostoc" and "phormidium" species belong to a class of organisms called cyanobacteria better known as blue-green-algae. ... The three strains from Antarctica were isolated from algal patches collected from a glacial melt water stream situated near the permanent Indian station Maitri in the icy continent.Botanists SP Shukla of Arunachal University at Itanagar and AK Kashyap of the Benaras Hindu University at Varanasi ... claim these organisms produced twice as much "carotenoid" as strains of same species found in mainland India" -- Fascinating, cyanobacteria will require a further look.
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Saturday, December 27, 2003
Prions are implicated in and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) aka The Mad Cow Disease ... are Prions connected with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003
Getting Ready for the Academy Awards ... The 76th annual awards are scheduled for February 29, 2004. According to the PR "76th Annual Academy Awards Presentation from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® will be televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5:30 p.m. (PST), with a half-hour arrivals program preceding the presentation ceremony.". Bibliographic and related information will be located here.
Oscar lives here, while the Academy lives here
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According to the NY Times, "Agriculture Department officials said today that the cow in Washington State that was diagnosed with mad cow disease probably contracted it from feed as a young animal, but that they did not know where it was born or where the other animals in that herd are now." Well this seems a perfect application for RFIDs (Radio Frequency Identification Devices). Its time to track ... then you could quickly and continuously track where the animal came from, steps in its life history, what happened to its peers, etc. With the anticipated cost of lost business due to BSE / Mad Cow Disease possibly approaching a Billion Bucks (beellions and beellions as Caral Sagan would say), this sounds like the solution .... If you use this idea ... please send a check :-)
Additional Mad Cow Information
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Bibliographies without end? [more]
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Mad Cow Disease and Gastroenterology; Are there any connections? -- its not clear what the deeper implications are; however, there's a rather extensive Gastroenterology Bibliography assembled for those who wish to explore possible relationships. [more]
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
PRION PROBLEMS: Mad cow disease aka bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is in the news again ...BSE eats holes in the brains of cattle and gives rise to serious disease in those suscpetible to it. NY TIMES reports "A sick cow slaughtered about two weeks ago near Yakima, Wash., has tested positive for mad cow disease in early laboratory results, the first such case in the United States, the secretary of agriculture said on Tuesday.
Shortly after the announcement, Japan said it was banning imports of American beef. The South Korean agriculture ministry said in a statement that South Korea was also halting American beef imports and that it was pulling American beef products off supermarket shelves." This is definitely not good. We hope it is stopped early .... SARS, BSE, deadly flu, West Nile .... not the type of things that lead to more happiness.. --- an extensive bibliography is available for recent research on Mad Cow Disease / Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
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Friday, December 19, 2003
Gene Expression is no laughing matter ... a pretty serious bibliography is available here ... it includes topics like Molecular Genetics of Mammalian Cells, The Genetic Basis of Human Cancer, Gene expression : protein synthesis and control, RNA synthesis and control, chromatin structure and function Gene function, Ecdysone--From Metabolism to Regulation of Gene Expression: Papers from the Seventh Ecdysone Workshop, Edinburgh,, The organization and expression of the eukaryotic genome, Developmental biology using purified genes : proceedings of the 1981 ICN-UCLA Symposia on Developmental Biology Using Purified Genes, held in Keystone, Colorado, Molecular aspects of gene expression in plants, Bioactive Microbial Products: Search and Discovery, Oncodevelopmental antigens
Principles of Molecular Virology, Bacterial Growth and Division : Biochemistry and Regulation of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Division Cycles, Gene Expression Systems: Using Nature for the Art of Expression, Onco-developmental gene expression, Molecular Cloning and Gene Regulation in Bacilli
Gene expression and carcinogenesis in cultured liver : proceedings of an International Symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gene expression, the production of RNAs, Cell Biology, Heart Development, In Situ Hybridization Protocols for the Brain, Experimental Manipulation of Gene Expression, Control of Gene Expression: Proceedings, Manipulation and Expression of Genes in Eukaryotes, and much more ...[more]
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HapMap Marathon is ON! according to Whitehead Genome Center and The Scientist ... "Haplotypes are ancestral segments of chromosomes that have been inherited together as a unit with little genetic shuffling across the generations. Whitehead and other groups have recently shown that the human genome is divided into such haplotypes, with the entire human population containing only three to five common varieties at each location in the genome. These haplotypes can be used to decipher the genetic differences that make some people more susceptible to disease than others. .... Scientists have long known that most of these genetic differences are in the form of single letter variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs. In the last two years scientists at the Whitehead Genome Center have identified common genetic differences that influence risk of type 2 diabetes and of Crohn's Disease" [whithead genome center] ... the Scientist article states "A major international project to produce a complete map of common patterns of differences in the human genome—haplotypes—has been launched. The “HapMap” is the first systematic approach to understanding diseases with a multigenic component. .... In the December 18/25 Nature, the International HapMap Consortium publishes details of the aims and methods of the $100 million collaborative effort—a similar scale to the Human Genome Project—that combines the efforts of major genome sequencing centers including the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Baylor College of Medicine in the United States, the United Kingdom's Sanger Institute and Oxford University, the Chinese HapMap Consortium, and teams from universities in Japan, Africa, China, and Canada in association with the US company Illumina. The Consortium intends to genotype more than a million sequence variants and to analyze their frequencies and degrees of association in a total of 270 DNA samples from Northern and Western European, Chinese, Nigerian, and Japanese populations" AWSOME! and GOOD LUCK
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Tuesday, December 16, 2003
Does Protein Phosphorylation have anything to do with Xenobiotics? .. we don't know, but ... Enzyme investigators look at Control by Phosphorylation, Biological Oxidations in Mitochondrial and Microbial Systems . Protein Kinases have a role as does Signal Transduction. There are the Animal Transgenesis and Cloning issues. At the same time Xenobiotics are explored in Fish contexts. While Xenobiotic, Hydrocarbon Treatment, Detoxifying Enzymatic Systems, Metabolism, and Bioaccumulation are related ... maybe there's a clue here ... [more]
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Sunday, December 14, 2003
Unlikely Romantic Collection? Could be ... as Jackie Mason might say, could be ...Shelley: The Pursuit, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, English Romantic Writers, Lord Byron: The Major Works, William Wordsworth: The Major Works, John Keats: The Major Works, Keats, The Stranger from Paradise: Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake, Shelley's Poetry and Prose: Authoritative Texts, Criticism, Byron : Child of Passion, Fool of Fame ... and then there's the incredibly long Beyond Enlightenment list. (not to forget, the task of nerve regeneration ... and .. could be yes could be ... Well goodnight for now. ... could be ............ [more]
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Saturday, December 13, 2003
If a great meal is a source of happiness ... and great recipes lead to great meals, and great recipe sources lead to great recipes ... the source of happiness maybe real close ... so where is the Recipe Magnum Opus? It might be right here, but you'll have to do some detective work!
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Thursday, December 11, 2003
Is Popularity Happiness? We don't know ... but tracking can tell what's popular with some folks ... there's the direct list, and the extended list. Its really in the mind of the (be)holder ... you don't have to be J LO or Spears or Madonna .. just a regular girl who wants to have fun ... oops I said it again, I meant Cindy ... no, actually forget it ... its just a bad pun. Stick with the extended list. Another recent addition is the focused Modern Bibliography resource with entries for Basketball, Graphology, and its own mandatory blog [Sitemap works to act as a guidepost].
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According to Sci-Bytes Incites Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms, by Markus Greiner, Olaf Mandel, Tilman Esslinger, Theodor W. Hansch, and Immanuel Bloch, Nature, 415(6867): 39-44, 3 January 2002. IS THE CURRENT HOT PAPER IN PHYSICS ... In case you missed the abstract, it states: "For a system at a temperature of absolute zero, all thermal fluctuations are frozen out, while quantum fluctuations prevail. These microscopic quantum fluctuations can induce a macroscopic phase transition in the ground state of a many-body system when the relative strength of two competing energy terms is varied across a critical value. Here we observe such a quantum phase transition in a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive interactions, held in a three-dimensional optical lattice potential. As the potential depth of the lattice is increased, a transition is observed from a superfluid to a Mott insulator phase. In the superfluid phase, each atom is spread out over the entire lattice, with long-range phase coherence. But in the insulating phase, exact numbers of atoms are localized at individual lattice sites, with no phase coherence across the lattice; this phase is characterized by a gap in the excitation spectrum. We can induce reversible changes between the two ground states of the system." Remember, if it ain't Mott it ain't apple juice :) -- Embryology and Embryogenesis are covered elsewhere [more]
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Monday, December 8, 2003
Yesterday's Popularity Picks ... included: Henry Moore: From Bones and Stones to Sketches and Sculptures, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals, Abstract Algebra: An Introduction, The Art of the Sports Car : The Greatest Designs of the 20th Century, The Shabby Chic Home, Planet Earth: its physical systems through geologic time, Soong Dynasty, The Craving Brain : A bold new approach to breaking free from *drug addiction *overeating *alcoholism *gambling, Natural Relief for Your Child's Asthma: A Guide to Controlling Symptoms & Reducing Your Child's Dependence on Drugs, The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production, Sword and Shadow, The Art of the Automobile: The 100 Greatest Cars, Postcholecystectomy syndromes : a clinical approach to etiology, diagnosis, and management, The Pacific Rim Almanac, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Ar, The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management, Reengineering the Corporation Revised Edition : Manifesto for Business Revolution, A, Introduction To Discrete Math, Basic Concepts in Biochemistry: A Student's Survival Guide, Research in Retinitis Pigmentosa: Pt 1 of Proc of 4th Congress of the International Retinitis Pigmentosa Association (Advances in the Biosciences) Chemokines, Flavonoids and Other Polyphenols (Methods in Enzymology), The Immunoglobulin FactsBook, A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing, The Chemokine Factsbook, Introduction to Graph Theory, The Fast Fourier Transform: An Introduction to Its Theory and Application, Introduction to Wavelets and Wavelets Transforms, Introductory Oceanography, Lupus: the Facts, Epinephrine in the Central Nervous System, Antigone (Greek Tragedy in New Translations), Hyperglycemia, Diabetes, and Vascular Disease, Handbook of Physiology, Section 2: The Cardiovascular System, Vol I: The Heart, Fractals and Chaos Simplified for the Life Sciences, Fundamental Concepts in the Design of Experiments, The Lupus Book: A Guide for Patients and Their Families, Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease (Contemporary Neurology), What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, The New Scofield Study Bible, King James Version, Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity, Oligosaccharides: Their Synthesis and Biological Roles, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, The Golden Tradition: An Anthology of Urdu Poetry, Gene Regulation and Metabolism: Post-Genomic Computational Approaches (Computational Molecular Biology), Potential Theory: An Introduction, The Dance of Legislation, Diderot on Art: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting, Introduction to Vectors and Tensors, Catecholamines and Behavior, Retinitis pigmentosa : clinical implications of current research, Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Disease: Early Roots of Cardiovascular, Skeletal, and Renal Abnormalities, The Synthesis of Self: It All Depends on How You Look at It: The Development of Pathology in the Cohesive Disorders, Gossip Girl, Fatal Equilibrium, Dreaming in Cuban, Kingdoms of the Night, Reunion: A Pip and Flinx Novel, Star Wars: Episode II, Attack of the Clones, Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems, Nora Ephron Collected, Stationfall, Preminger: An Autobiography, The Complete Book of Baton Twirling, Computability in Analysis and Physics, Essential Aspects of Atopic Dermatitis, Proof Theory, An Introduction to Signal Detection and Estimation, Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry, Variational Calculus and Optimal Control: Optimization With Elementary Convexity, Topological Spaces: From Distance to Neighborhood, Higher Calculus: A History of Real and Complex Analysis from Euler to Weierstrass, Introduction to Arakelov Theory, Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, Advanced Topics in Computational Number Theory, Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Biochemistry, Food allergy; provocative testing and injection therapy, New Perspectives in Adipose Tissue: Structure, Function, and Development, Probiotics 2: Applications and Practical Aspects, Lactoferrin: Structure, Function and Applications, Inorganic Phosphate Materials, The Pasta Diet, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure ..., Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice, J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2003, The Golem, Calculus of Variations, Oragenitalism, Get the Salt Out : 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Salt Out of Any Diet, The Enlightenment, Financial Calculus : An Introduction to Derivative Pricing, Multivariable Calculus: Stewart's Student Manual, Planets, Sunspots and Earthquakes: Effects on the Sun, the Earth and Its Inhabitants, The Private House, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Contemporary Abstract Algebra, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Legs: Super Legs in Six Weeks, A Massage Therapist's Guide to Pathology, Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy: A Clinical Manual, Handbook of Hemodynamic Monitoring, Tuberculosis, The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, ... and the Meaning of Life, Skin Disorders Sourcebook: Basic Information About Common Skin and Scalp Conditions Caused by Aging, Allergies, Immune Reactions, Sun Exposure, Infectious Organisms, Parasites, and others
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Lemony Snicket is an industry into its own There's the Unauthorized Autobiography and the he Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9), The Box of Unfortunate Events: The Situation Worsens (with The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator) or The Trouble Begins set ( Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window), or the Slippery Slopeand then The Dilemma Deepens -- check them out ... for yourselves ... [more]
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Sunday, December 7, 2003
Ultimate Sets might turn out to be among the Ultimate in joy dispensers ...
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Saturday, December 6, 2003
On the road to personal happiness , its helps to take a detour and find out what's on the Collectibles Reference Shelf, Coin Collecting, Collectibles Industry - Downloadable Report, Comic Book Collecting, Figurine Bibliography, Identification of First Editions, Initial Reference List, Scientific Treasures, and then Beyond collecting: Creativity: A Recent Bibliography, Graphology and Handwriting Analysis, Hammer Plus, Haircuts, Infinite Personal Choice, Proteomics, Ranndom Wood Walks, and then for Holidays: pointers about Kwanzaa. [more]
Posted by E Moritz @ 04:04 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, December 4, 2003
Definitely not what you'd expect from "Narses, Hammer of the Goths" Like Washngton, we had to do some steam treatment before" heading off into the sunset. So here's what the results look like. So arbitrary limitations yield the production end.
Posted by E Moritz @ 12:34 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, December 2, 2003
According to Robert Roy Britt, Space.com Senior Science Writer's article, "The solar system used to be much smaller. According to a new theory, Neptune long ago migrated away from the Sun and forced a vast field of giant boulders out with it. .... The idea for Neptune's big construction project is based on a computer simulation that attempts to solve a mystery that's been nagging astronomers in recent years. In 1992, researchers discovered the first object besides Pluto that is beyond Neptune. (Pluto is sometimes inside Neptune's orbit and sometimes outside.) ... The region is now known as the Kuiper Belt, and nearly 1,000 Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) have been found. Some of them are about half as big as Pluto. Scientists estimate there are billions more, both small and large. ... But they shouldn't all be there." .... interesting so now we've got the Neptune effect to explain ...
in other news, great strides are being made on the Stem Cell front ...
[more]Posted by E Moritz @ 10:24 PM CST [Link]
Hello? Hello Hello .... are we home yet ? Hello?