Missing link from Tibet.

Missing link from Tibet.

From OOA to C++: The Missing Link

In 1912, one Charles Dawson discovered a skull fragment that was accepted as evidence of the long-sought missing link between apes and humans. In 1953, Piltdown Man as the fossil was known, was shown to be a forgery, a combination of a 600-year-old human skull and a modern orangutan. Sadly, this tale is redolent of today's methods for making the transition from object-oriented analysis to code:...

Finding the missing link

The discovery of an ancient protein complex reveals the evolutionary relationships between the proteins that help to form vesicles.

The (formerly) missing link

hen endothelial cells adhere to the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin, they can proliferate in response to growth factors. Adhesion to laminin, however, brings their cell cycles to a dead stop. Why? Given that the response depends on the composition of the extracellular matrix, Filippo Giancotti and his colleagues at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY) proposed in 1...

The Missing Link

state-transition relation are mapped onto physical states-types related by a corresponding causal state-transition relation.” (Chalmers, 1994, p. 392) There is a little ambiguity in the two phrasings as to what the exact meaning of “mirrors” is supposed to be. Prima facie one would expect “mirrors” to mean something like “is isomorphic to,” as “mirrors” usually indicates sameness in structure. ...