Electrophoresis: Theory, Methods, and Applications (Bier, Milan, ed.)

Metagenomics: Theory, methods, and applications

Metagenomics is a young overarching discipline that seeks to understand population dynamics and interactions among vast microbial worlds that have not been revealed by traditional culture methods in the microbiology laboratory. Metagenomics is emerging as an essential scientific discipline: there are far-reaching implications in understanding ecosystem responses to changes in the natural enviro...

Milan: Middleware Linking Applications and Networks

Current trends in computing include increases in both distribution and wireless connectivity, leading to highly dynamic, complex environments on top of which applications must be built. The task of designing and ensuring the correctness of applications in these environments is similarly becoming more complex. The unified goal of much of the research in distributed wireless systems is to provide...

Bier Spheres and Posets

In 1992 Thomas Bier presented a strikingly simple method to produce a huge number of simplicial (n− 2)-spheres on 2n vertices as deleted joins of a simplicial complex on n vertices with its combinatorial Alexander dual. Here we interpret his construction as giving the poset of all the intervals in a boolean algebra that “cut across an ideal.” Thus we arrive at a substantial generalization of Bi...

Sequential Methods and Their Applications

Fluctuating Asymmetry: Methods, Theory, and Applications

Fluctuating asymmetry consists of random deviations from perfect symmetry in populations of organisms. It is a measure of developmental noise, which reflects a population’s average state of adaptation and coadaptation. Moreover, it increases under both environmental and genetic stress, though responses are often inconsistent. Researchers base studies of fluctuating asymmetry upon deviations fro...