"STRIKING THE FLAG."

Striking imagery

The images above were featured in the recent Biomedical Image Awards of the Wellcome Centre Medical Photographic Library in London, UK. They are part of a growing collection, now numbering over 150 000 images. In the photograph at top left, spinal nerves can be seen growing into the wing bud of a four-day chick embryo. Amid the long striations of the sea squirt heart at bottom left, the gap jun...

The affine flag variety

The lightning striking distance—Revisited

First return stroke current waveforms measured by Berger [Methods and results of lightning records at Monte San Salvatore from 1963–1971 (in German), Bull. Schweiz. Elektrotech. ver. 63 (1972) 21403—21422] and Berger and Vogelsanger [Measurement and results of lightning records at Monte San Salvatore from 1955–1963 (in German), Bull. Schweiz. Elektrotech. ver. 56 (1965) 2–22] are used to estima...

The French Flag Model

The French flag model represents how embryonic cells receive and respond to genetic information and subsequently differentiate into patterns. Created by Lewis Wolpert [5] in the late 1960?s, the model uses the French tricolor flag as visual representation to show how embryonic cells can interpret genetic code to create the same pattern even when certain pieces of the embryo are removed. Wolpert...

Flag Variety

1.1. QCoh on a stack. We know that QCoh forms a stack, i.e., sheaf of groupoids, over Schfpqc(S) for any scheme S. Thus if we have an fpqc sheaf of groupoids X over S, we can define QCoh(X ) as maps of sheaves X → QCoh on Schfpqc(S). By 2-Yoneda, this definition agrees with the usual notion of quasicoherent sheaves if X is a scheme. For various other (usually equivalent) definitions in the case...