IS THE LOESS OF EITHER LACUSTRINE OR SEMIMARINE ORIGIN?

The world is either digital or analogue

We address an argument by Floridi (2009, 2011), to the effect that digital and analogue are not features of reality, only of modes of presentation of reality. One can therefore have an informational ontology, like Floridi’s Informational Structural Realism, without commitment to a supposedly digital or analogue world. After introducing the topic in Section 1, in Section 2 we explain what the pr...

Clonal origin of the Philadelphia chromosome from either the paternal or the maternal chromosome number 22.

The World is Either Algorithmic or Mostly Random

I will propose the notion that the universe is digital, not as a claim about what the universe is made of but rather about the way it unfolds. Central to the argument will be the concepts of symmetry breaking and algorithmic probability, which will be used as tools to compare the way patterns are distributed in our world to the way patterns are distributed in a simulated digital one. These conc...

A Model of Irreversible Electro-Oxidation Inhibited by Either Adsorption or Surface Complexation of the Product

Theoretical models of irreversible electro-oxidation of dissolved reactant giving dissolved product on the stationary planar electrode are developed for the conditions of staircase cyclic voltammetry. In the first model it is assumed that the product is adsorbed on the electrode surface and that the adsorbate prevents the transfer of electrons. In the second model it is assumed that the electro...

Specific mutations within the AT-rich region of a plasmid replication origin affect either origin opening or helicase loading.

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic replicons possess a distinctive region containing a higher than average number of adenine and thymine residues (the AT-rich region) where, during the process of replication initiation, the initial destabilization (opening) of the double helix takes place. In many prokaryotic origins, this region consists of repeated 13-mer motifs whose function has not yet been specif...