Scientific Aspects of Luther Burbank's Work

Scientific aspects of acupuncture.

Piratism of scientific work.

A.S. Awidi, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Consultant Hematologist, Jordan University Hospital, Amman (Jordan) To the Editor, I wish to draw your attention to the paper by E.A. Alsabti and M. Hammadi (Acta haemat. 61: 47–51, 1979). In that paper the authors claim to have studied the pattern and occurrence of inherited bleeding syndromes in Jordan over a period of 1 year. In the abstract t...

Aspects of quantum work.

Various approaches of defining and determining work performed on a quantum system are compared. Any operational definition of work, however, must allow for two facts: first, that work characterizes a process rather than an instantaneous state of a system and, second, that quantum systems are sensitive to the interactions with a measurement apparatus. We compare different measurement scenarios o...

Scientific Aspects of Silage Making

Silage is a common way of storing and feeding forage in the United States. There are 4 phases (aerobic, anaerobic, stable, and feedout) that silage undergoes. The most critical phases to manage to minimize nutritive losses are when the silage is going from an aerobic to an anaerobic environment and at feedout. The first important step in achieving silage of high nutritive value is to harvest at...

Mathematical Aspects of Scientific Software

The goal is to survey the impact of scientific software on mathematics. Three types of impacts are identified and several topics from each are discussed in some depth. First is the impact on the structure of mathematics through its Tole as the scientific tool for problem solving. Scientific software leads to new assessments of what algorithms are, how well they work, and what a solution really ...