Astronomy is looking up

Looking up at the GUT / Planck World

The importance of the mass spectroscopy of the superparticles is emphasized. It will be shown that the gauge coupling constants give us information on the GUT-scale mass spectrum once the superparticle masses are known. The gaugino masses will provide us a model-independent test of the grand unification irrespective of the symmetry breaking pattern. The sfermion masses carry the information on ...

Looking Down , Around , and Up : Mechanistic

Accounts of mechanistic explanation have emphasized the importance of looking down—decomposing a mechanism into its parts and operations. Using research on visual processing as an exemplar, I illustrate how productive such research has been. But once multiple components of a mechanism have been identified, researchers also need to figure out how it is organized—they must look around and determi...

Looking up for AML in Down syndrome.

Children with trisomy 21/DS represent a clinically and genetically unique subset of pediatric patients with AML, with patients ,4 years of age having a 500-fold increased risk of developing the disease. Taub et al report improved event-free survival and overall survival in a prospective cohort of children with DS that examined the impact of early intensification of cytarabine therapy and reduct...

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Which is which and who is who: Roger Waters up against Media

Pink Floyd was a British band whose work began in the late 60s. Roger Waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. He deliberately attacks Western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. The present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...