Prof. Rex Knight

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Darren Knight

Glaucoma is an ocular disease that leads to the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells. In the chronic version of glaucoma, lack of pain creates patients that are often unaware that they their eyesight has begun to deteriorate. They remain unaware of their condition until they suddenly lose their sight due to leaving the disease untreated. Even when glaucoma is diagnosed, a considerable number ...

Foiling the Black Knight

Why is the academy in general, and philosophy in particular, not more involved in the fight against the creationist threat?Andwhy,when a response is offered, is it so curiously ineffective? I argue, by using an analogy with the battle against the Black Knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, that the difficulty lies largely in a failure to see the nature of the problem clearly. B...

Rex Risser

In 1970 Abelson and Rabstein (1) isolated a variant of Moloney leukemia virus from a nonthymic l y m p h o m a of a BALB/c mouse. Subsequent studies indicated that this virus, now termed Abelson murine leukemia virus (MuLV-A), 1 induces a malignant disease of primitive bone marrow-derived lymphocytes (2-5). Under certain conditions, M u L V A also induces tumors of highly differentiated B cells...

The Irrational Chess Knight

While in the univariate case solutions of linear recurrences with constant coeecients have rational generating functions, in the multivariate case the situation is much more interesting: even though initial conditions have rational generating functions, the corresponding solutions can have generating functions which are algebraic but not rational, and perhaps even non-algebraic. We start by an ...