Merkursdurchgang 1914 Nov. 7

supplement vol. 7, no.39 & 40, nov.2002-feb.2003

supplement vol. 7, no.39 & 40, nov.2002-feb.2003

Summary of Lectures 16 and 17 ( Nov . 5 and Nov . 7 , 2008 ) Scribe : Srinath Puducheri

1 Executive Summary We started with an introduction to the notion of percolation over random graphs with a 2-D lattice as an example. We then studied branching processes over random trees and proved conditions under which the such a process continues forever with positive probability. Finally, we defined the probability space of a random graph over a 2-D lattice. 2 Introduction to Percolation C...

Dmd053199 1914..1922

Naturally occurring furanocoumarin compounds psoralen (PRN) and isopsoralen (IPRN) are bioactive constituents found in herbaceous plants. They are widely used as active ingredients in several Chinese herbal medicines. In this study, the CYP1A2 inhibitory potential of PRN and IPRN was investigated in rats in vitro and in vivo as well as in human liver microsomes. Both compounds exhibited reversi...

Max Perutz (1914–2002)

Become a scientist, Ernest Rutherford would urge his friends, for then you will never be old, you will remain all your life a child at play. So it proved for the evergreen Max Perutz, who did his last experiment only weeks before he died at the fine age of eighty-seven. Perutz embraced Noël Coward's dictum that 'work is fun, work is much more fun than fun'. In an eventful life, beset in its ear...

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