Bantu in the Crystal Ball, II

Crystal ball

Telescopes reveal that elements are formed through the recombination of subatomic particles within supernovae, producing the nebulae in which galaxies coalesce. Microscopes reveal that eukaryotic organisms form through the recombination of prokaryotic cells, producing plants and animals that recombine to propagate as communities. Microscopists and astronomers alike have thus begun to wonder whe...

The Darmstadt-heidelberg Crystal Ball

'A modularized Ma1 detector with close to 4Tgeometry can provide unique information on the decay y-radiation from highly excited nuclei. GSI Darmstadt, the Ilax-Planck-Institute (WI) for Nuclear Physics and the University of Heidelberg have joined in a collaboration to realize such a detector. The detector has the shape of a spherical shell with a free inner radius of 25 cm and a thickness of 2...

suPAR: The Molecular Crystal Ball

soluble urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor (suPAR) levels reflect inflammation and elevated suPAR levels are found in several infectious diseases and cancer. suPAR exists in three forms; suPAR(I-III), suPAR(II-III) and suPAR(I) which show different properties due to structural differences. Studies suggest that full-length suPAR is a regulator of uPAR/uPA by actingas uPA-scavenger, whereas...

Looking into the crystal ball

TEI in a crystal ball

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an organization, a research community, and a markup language. Looking back into the history of these three TEIs, this article tries to describe what has been achieved and what its future challenges will be. The historical analysis is based on a closer look at the development of the TEI-L and topics covered by the Guidelines. A final section outlines possible ro...