Über die Johannesburger Beobachtung des Planeten 719 [1911 MT] vom 18. Oktober 1911

Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005)

The editorial board lost a real soul mate when Maclyn McCarty passed away on January 2nd at age 93. While attending the theater with friends, one of the many activities that he enjoyed, he collapsed. “Dr. Mac” was revered worldwide for his remarkable experiments that led to the identification of DNA as the genetic material. This totally unanticipated discovery, and the revolutionary 1944 paper ...

Simon Flexner, 1911

Die Schrift des Rufus von Ephesos über die Gelbsucht

The greater part of this book is devoted to a study of Aristotle's theory of heredity in the De generatione animalium. Morsink argued that Aristotle is there engaging in dialectical dispute against the pangenesis theory of inheritance as advocated in "Hippocrates" On semen and On the nature of the child, and that Aristotle's own explanation in terms of form provided by the male parent and matte...

Über die Effizienz des Automatischen Testens

Wir analysieren die Effizienz des zufälligen und systematischen Ansatzes zum automatischen Programmtesten. Dabei nutzen wir wenige, einfache, jedoch realistische Annahmen um ein generelles probabilistisches Modell für das Softwaretesten zu entwickeln. Die zwei wichtigsten Ziele des automatischen Softwaretestens sind (i) in minimaler Zeit mit einem gewissen Zuversichtsgrad x festzustellen, daß d...

Francis Galton (1822-1911)

Sir Francis Galton [5] was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of statistics, experimental psychology and biometry. In the history of biology, Galton is widely regarded as the originator of the early twentieth century eugenics movement [6]. Galton published influential writings on nature versus nurturein human pers...