Weights and Measures: An Informal Guide

An informal guide to picking fresh names

How to Name and Classify Your Phage: An Informal Guide

With this informal guide, we try to assist both new and experienced phage researchers through two important stages that follow phage discovery; that is, naming and classification. Providing an appropriate name for a bacteriophage is not as trivial as it sounds, and the effects might be long-lasting in databases and in official taxon names. Phage classification is the responsibility of the Bacte...

Ancient Greek weights and measures

Moreover, the comparative study of prices in Egypt and even in parts of Egypt (a nome, a toparchy, a village) is rendered very difficult by many peculiar circumstances. This is true, for example, of the prices of such a basic commodity as grain. In the statistical lists compiled by modern scholars the price of grain is shown per artaba, as if the artaba were a constant measure. In fact, as has ...

Weights and Measures: An Axiomatic Model for Similarity Computations

This paper proposes a formal model for similarity functions, first over arbitrary objects, then over sets and the sorts of weighted sets that are found in text retrieval systems. Using a handful of axioms and constraints, we are able to make statements about the behavior of such functions in reference to set overlap and to noise. The model is then used to analyze, and we hope illuminate, severa...

Weights and Measures in East Asian Studies

An important topic in East Asian Studies is the way things have been measured throughout history. Although this is a highly technical subject, some familiarity with it is necessary if you are to understand how people keep track of things. As with many of the handouts for this course, the comments contained here are designed to introduce the basics and only suggest some of the deeper complexitie...