The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show

Diana Cell Picture Show - Biology

Images taken in Diana Bratu's lab by Dr. Irina Catrina are featured in Cell's Journal Picture Show that was recently released, called Reproduction. The image titled "The Short End of a Long Stick" shows sperm cells from Drosophila. Flies in the Drosophila genus produce the longest sperm cells on Earth. One species, Drosophila bifurca, has sperm that is 58 mm (2.3 inches) long. Our good friend D...

Motion Picture Reconstruction

Gross and microscopic studies of the auriculoventricular conduction system were performed in 60 human hearts. A unique technic is introduced which will produce a photographic. record of undistorted serial sections through a block containing the auriculoventricular node, auriculoventricular bundle and branches. By projecting the completed film as a motion picture, the course and changing relatio...

Piracy In The Motion Picture Industry (review)

Asthma—snapshot or motion picture?

Asthma is a complex disease physiologically characterized by shortness of breath, coughing, and wheezing (Holgate, 2011). In response to a variety of stimuli, the airways become more sensitive leading to bronchial hyperresponsiveness (Sterk and Bel, 1989; Scichilone et al., 2006; Kang et al., 2012). Consequently, in a process known as bronchoconstriction, airways become narrower, impeding the n...

Trash Compaction

Let P be a set of n objects on a square grid. A push is a transformation of P that involves sweeping a horizontal or vertical line by one unit, starting from the hull of P , displacing objects in the direction of the sweep. For example, when pushing to the right, all the leftmost objects are displaced one unit to the right. This in turn displaces other objects further right. Given P , we want t...