Why Tony Blair Could Never have been a Satisfactory First President of Europe

A symbiotic view of life: we have never been individuals.

The notion of the "biological individual" is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-...

The 'What Could Have Been' Photo

The goal of the project is to create new scenarios in a supplied photo by replacing some of its elements with elements from other photos. This could be used to repair imperfectly taken photos (photo with shadow due to camera lens that was partially covered by finger), to remove elements that spoil the imagery of a picture (a garbage can in the middle of a rose garden), or to create an image wit...

Why have Pneumocystis carinii trophozoites been ignored?

Could the Late Permian deep ocean have been anoxic

Models ofocean circulation and biogeochemical cy les are used to speculate bout possible m chanisms of deep-sea anoxia across the Pertoo-Triassic boundary. Two modes of likely Late Permian ocean thermohaline circulation are identified: a vigorous "therm',d mode" driven by cooling in southern polar latitudes and aweaker "haline mode" driven by evaporation fromthe subtropics. We find that the the...

Could HERA results have been predicted from semileptonic meson decays

The anomalous value of the tensor form factor in the kaon decay K → πeν and the destructive interference in pion decay π− → e−ν̄γ can be simultaneously described by admixture of a tensor interaction in the standard V -A one. It is shown that the same tensor interaction can describe recent HERA data at very large Q. 1 On leave from Centre for Space Research and Technologies, Faculty of Physics, U...