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o think that the neoimpressionists are painters who cover canvases with little multicolored spots is a rather widespread mistake, " wrote Paul Signac in his manifesto of their movement. " This mediocre dot method has nothing to do with the aesthetic of the painters we are defending here, nor with the technique of divisionism they use. " Signac was referring to, among others, Georges Seurat, who...

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Avant-garde Security in AODV

MANETs are networks formed by moving nodes. They use wireless communication to speak among them and they do it in an ad hoc manner. MANET is considered as an ideal network model for group communications because of its forte of instant establishment. Since, existence of central servers cannot be expected; nodes need to guarantee their data to reach the destination securely without loss, tamper o...

Avant-garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

and embodied awareness, which establishes the conditions for metaphor, play, imagination, and inspiration. These four conditions are the subjects of the final four chapters. Particularly interesting is the emphasis on play, which in this context extends far beyond the more traditional notions of play therapy, rough-and-tumble play, or even imaginative play. Play here is discussed in a very spec...

Avant Garde Fatty Acid Synthesis by Trypanosomes

In this issue of Cell, Lee et al. (2006) report that the parasite Trypanosoma brucei synthesizes fatty acids in an unconventional way. T. brucei and two other trypanosomes use enzymes called elongases to synthesize myristate, a fourteen carbon (C14) fatty acid essential for pathogenesis. This is an unexpected finding as these enzymes were thought only to elongate already long (C16 or C18) acyl ...