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Exploding Totem in Art and Biology
hat could be better than dying in the place you spent your life work-ing…? " Jack Shadbolt's wife Doris mused, as she and friends moved his bed into the studio during the final days of his life. " When I can't paint, I don't want to live, " he had said (1). Around the bed was Blue Breaking, a triptych he had painted, filled with shadowy forms, " like butterflies' footprints. " A few days later,...
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From the still life with a bowl of fruit to scenes of wildlife in the woods, from Michelangelo’s David to Damien Hirst’s Verity, biology often provides the shapes, forms, colours and concepts that most inspire visual artists to create their own representation of life. Apart from the unique case of Leonardo da Vinci, the scientific and the artistic eye cast on living things have rarely resided i...
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The need for early, rapid, and substantial fluid resuscitation in septic patients has long been an article of faith in the intensive care community, a tribal totem that is taboo to question. The results of a recent multicenter trial in septic children in Africa, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, powerfully challenge the fluid paradigm. The salient aspects of the trial need to be...
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While studying fatty acid vesicles as model primitive cell membranes, we encountered a dramatic phenomenon in which light triggers the sudden rupture of micron-scale dye-containing vesicles, resulting in rapid release of vesicle contents. We show that such vesicle explosions are caused by an increase in internal osmotic pressure mediated by the oxidation of the internal buffer by reactive oxyge...
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The Totem system supports fault-tolerant applications in which distributed processes cooperate to perform a commontask and in which replicated data must be updated consistently in the presence of asynchrony and faults. Reliable totally ordered delivery of messages to processes within process groups is provided on a single local-area network or over multiple local-area networks interconnected by...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid1301.000000