Dark they were, and strange inside

"And They Were Silent": Reflections on Legalism

Dark microglia: Why are they dark?

Using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) we recently characterized a microglial phenotype that is induced by chronic stress, fractalkine receptor deficiency, aging, or Alzheimer disease pathology. These 'dark' microglia appear overly active compared with the normal microglia, reaching for synaptic clefts, and extensively engulfing pre-synaptic axon terminals and post-synaptic dendritic spin...

Strange Stars ’ - have they been discovered ?

Recently there have been controversial claims about the nature of the isolated compact star RXJ1856.5−3754, with one group claiming it to be a strange star (Drake et al., 2002) while the other asserting it to be a normal neutron star (Walter & Lattimer, 2002). The controversy arises mainly due to the distance estimate, which in turn is used to resolve the measured angular diameter, and thus the...

Australian Internet Stocks : Were They Special ?

and we acknowledge the contributions of participants at these conferences. All errors or omissions are our own. Abstract Were Australian Internet stock returns unusual? We examine daily returns on a primary sample of the 21 Australian Internet stocks in the Merrill Lynch (Australian) Internet Stock Index at the climax of the boom-bust period, between 21 September 1999 and 20 September 2000. App...

And They Were Thinking? Basic, Logo, Personality and Pedagogy

This paper is concerned with some limited aspects of the history of two programming languages purpose-designed for students learning to program digital computers: Basic and Logo. The focus is the very different educational aims and philosophies of the originators of these languages. They are compared and their early use in schools sketched. While the reasons for teaching students to write progr...