Subaru: Voyage to unknown Universe

Are we on a voyage to the unknown?

Deep Near-Infrared Universe Seen in the Subaru Deep Field

The Subaru Deep Field provides the currently deepest Kselected sample of high-z galaxies (K ′ ∼ 23.5 at 5σ). The SDF counts, colors, and size distributions in the near-infrared bands are carefully compared with pure-luminosity-evolution (PLE) as well as CDM-based hierarchical merging (HM) models. The very flat faint-end slope of the SDF K count indicates that the bulk (more than 90%) of cosmic ...

Charting an Unknown Protein Universe

On the surface, the protein universe seems dauntingly vast. Driven by the increasingly rapid accumulation of genomic sequences, the past few decades have yielded sequence data for several million gene products, leaving researchers struggling to keep up. Of the 10,000 protein families listed in the latest release from PFAM (http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/), an online database that groups proteins base...

Nanobiotechnology: A voyage to future?

Nanobiotechnology is an emerging field that is potentially changing the way we treat diseases through drug delivery and tissue engineering. Methods of targeting nanoparticles to specific sites of the body while avoiding capture by vital organs are major hurdles that need to be answered. Whether actual or perceived, the potential health hazards associated with the production, distribution and us...

A probabilistic approach to ship voyage reconstruction in ICOADS: A probabilistic approach to ship voyage reconstruction in ICOADS

The International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) provides the main archive for surface marine observations for the past approximately 150 years. ICOADS ship identifier (ID) information is often missing or unusable, preventing the linking of reports to an individual ship. A method for the reconstruction of ship voyages in ICOADS is presented, by which groups of reports can be a...