“Coast Finds” by Major Moore at Felixstowe Ferry

Sanitation and Parasitism at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

One focus of historical archaeology at Harpers Ferry Na­ tional Historical Park, West Virginia, is tracing the devel­ opment of sanitation at the town through the 1800s and 1900s. Historical documentation indicates that there was a degree of resistance to the modernization of village sanita­ tion. This study attempts to verify this resistance through examination of privy soils for parasites ind...

A ferry between cultures

the new field of research into the ethical, legal and social aspects of scientific and technological developments (ElSa) is rapidly becoming a professional field with grants, research programmes and university departments devoted to it. at first glance, ElSa seems to be a new development intended to address questions and challenges that arise from advances in the natural sciences. the professio...

Workstations : ferry Werner MCC

Workstation processing power and the number of available workstation application tools have increased dramatically in the last five years. Sophisticated users now find that "real work" can be accomplished on CAD/CAE workstations. In "Conversion of an IC Design Capability from a Mainframe to a Workstation Environment," Dave Palmer and John Wisniewski from Sandia National Laboratories recount the...

RNase P: at last, the key finds its lock.

Apart from the ribosome, the crystal structure of the bacterial RNase P in complex with a tRNA, reported by Reiter and colleagues recently, constitutes the first example of a multiple turnover RNA enzyme. Except in rare exceptions, RNase P is ubiquitous and, like the ribosome, is older than the initial branch point of the phylogenetic tree. Importantly, the structure shows how the RNA and the p...

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