Turning Catabolism into Usefulness—A Jaundiced View

Turning catabolism into usefulness: a jaundiced view.

Featured Article: Stocker R, Yamamoto Y, McDonagh AF, Glazer AN, Ames BN. Bilirubin is an antioxidant of possible physiological importance. Science 1987;235: 1043– 6. My interest in bilirubin, a product of heme catabolism in mammals, was sparked by 2 momentous and interrelated events in 1983. The first was the premature birth of my eldest daughter, Sophie. The second was her treatment with “blu...

TUCH: Turning Cross-view Hashing into Single-view Hashing via Generative Adversarial Nets

Cross-view retrieval, which focuses on searching images as response to text queries or vice versa, has received increasing attention recently. Crossview hashing is to efficiently solve the cross-view retrieval problem with binary hash codes. Most existing works on cross-view hashing exploit multiview embedding method to tackle this problem, which inevitably causes the information loss in both i...

Turning Perversion into Fervor

Turning sunlight into stone

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Turning manure into gold

At a time of global warming, growing environmental concerns and a political situation that is making many industrialised countries critically review their dependency on Middle Eastern oil, the need to develop alternatives to fossil fuels is becoming increasingly important. And this is not just a recurring demand from environmentalists; most industrialised countries signed the Kyoto Treaty, comm...