Surface chemistry: Removing the black magic

Voodoo, Black Magic and the Hawaiian Kahuna.

Removing Black-hole Singularities with Nonlinear Electrodynamics

We propose a way to remove Black-Hole Singularities by using a particular nonlinear electrodynamic Lagrangian that has been recently used in various astrophysics and cosmological frameworks. In particular, we adapt the cosmological analysis of Phys. Rev. D 65, 063501 (2002) to the Black Holes physics. It is well known that the concept of Black-Hole has been considered very fascinating by scient...

AutoMode: Relational Learning With Less Black Magic

Relational databases are valuable resources for learning novel and interesting relations and concepts. Relational learning algorithms learn the Datalog definition of new relations in terms of the existing relations in the database. In order to constraint the search through the large space of candidate definitions, users must tune the algorithm by specifying a language bias. Unfortunately, speci...

Hoodoo: Black Magic or Healing Art?

The Surface Chemistry of Bone*

It has been shown by Freudenburg and Gyorgy that dried preparations of cartilage can take up certain cations from solution (l), and that in the case of calcium and magnesium this reaction can be followed by a similar reaction involving phosphate (2). On the other hand, it has been claimed by Roche and Deltour (3) that cartilage first binds phosphate and that this may be followed by a binding of...