What chance did Mendel's experiments give him of noticing linkage?

Give chance a chance

How did I get to become a cell biologist? Or, more generally, why do things happen the way they do? The answer provided by the philosopher Democritus and later adopted by Jacques Monod is "everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." While I read Monod's book Chance and Necessity as an undergraduate student, little did I appreciate the accuracy of this citation and...

Give Us a Chance, Matron

Glare Marc Wallace shows, by her own experience, mat me uuiding profession is no different from any other when it comes to re-employing a member who has been mentally ill I have been an atypical schizophrenic for 12 years, and have been admitted to psychiatric hospital on 17 occasions for short periods during that time. Because of my history, I have had difficulty in getting suitable work. The ...

Give the kid a chance.

Why did evolution give us allergies?

The questions of why allergies exist and why they are becoming more prevalent continue to puzzle immunologists. Recent research has uncovered a wealth of details and in the process grown an impenetrable hedge of acronyms around the issue, but the answers may be hidden elsewhere, in the ecology and evolution of our interactions with insects, worms and snakes. Michael Gross reports.

Give chance a chance- modeling density to enhance scatter plot quality through random data sampling

The problem of visualizing huge amounts of data is well known in Information Visualization. Dealing with a large number of items forces almost any kind of Infovis technique to reveal its limits in terms of expressivity and scalability. In this paper we focus on 2D scatter plots, proposing a ”feature preservation” approach, based on the idea of modeling the visualization in a virtual space in or...