FREMONT AUGUSTUS CHANDLER

Cecil Augustus Joll

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922).

The electrocardiograph is one of the most important instruments with which to examine the human heart and is in constant use all over the world, yet we doubt whether many physicians know who was the first man to demonstrate that the electrical response accompanying the movement of the human heart could easily be shown by a clinical application of a relatively simple instrument. In the early par...

Autobiography of David Chandler.

I was born the younger of my parents’ two children, on October 15, 1944, at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, in New York. Except for two years when I was five and six years old, I spent my formative years in Great Neck, a north shore Long Island suburb of New York City, where I benefited from material comforts, excellent schools, and abundant opportunities for cultural and recreational activities. My ...

AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts

AUGUSTUS is a software tool for gene prediction in eukaryotes based on a Generalized Hidden Markov Model, a probabilistic model of a sequence and its gene structure. Like most existing gene finders, the first version of AUGUSTUS returned one transcript per predicted gene and ignored the phenomenon of alternative splicing. Herein, we present a WWW server for an extended version of AUGUSTUS that ...

Trade in Fremont society: contexts and contrasts

Marine shell, turquoise, exotic ceramics, and toolstone, and raw minerals are common in archaeological assemblages generated by the Fremont, small scale farmers and foragers who occupied the eastern Great Basin and Colorado Plateau of western North American between AD 400 and 1300. Although researchers routinely describe such artifacts, little attention been paid to the means whereby these item...