Puzzling Titles

Titles

This is not about knights and dames, nor is it about jazz musicians, such as Duke Ellington or Court Basie. Rather, it is about a most important issue in science, which is the difficult task of choosing titles for seminars, lectures, scientific papers, books and even the titles of the journals themselves. Today, we all have to compete for readers and listeners, and in the current ruthlessly com...

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Puzzling Permutations

We show how to describe and analyse multistage interconnection networks in a relational framework. We give simple elegant descriptions of butterfly networks, using only two functions for building networks from smaller networks. By studying the algebra of these functions, we can give a clear account of the properties of networks, without resorting to the standard methods of reasoning in terms of...

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Mardonnes J, Segovia N, Hederra A, Alcaino F. Influence of sulfasuxidine on the effect of alpha lipoic or thioctic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats depleted of factor N1. Acta Physiol Lat Am. 1953;3(2-3):140-3. PMID: 13138254 Abstract Mardonnes J, Segovia N, Alcaino F, Hederra A. Effect of synthetic thioctic or alpha lipoic acid on the voluntary alcohol intake of rats. Science. 1954...