DCC: a Swiss army knife for structure factor analysis and validation

Jackknife Hervé Abdi ⋅

The jackknife or “leave one out” procedure is a cross-validation technique first developed by Quenouille to estimate the bias of an estimator. John Tukey then expanded the use of the jackknife to include variance estimation and tailored the name of jackknife because like a jackknife—a pocket knife akin to a Swiss army knife and typically used by boy scouts—this technique can be used as a “quick...

Multipurpose Identity-Based Sign ryption A Swiss Army Knife for Identity-Based Cryptography

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT): a biochemical Swiss Army knife in neuroinflammation and neuroprotection?

GAL4 system in Drosophila: a fly geneticist's Swiss army knife.

The last decade has seen an enormous expansion in the genetic toolbox of model organisms. This has been particularly apparent in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster, in which the development of these tools and their ongoing extension, along with the completion of the genome sequence has allowed for the analysis of most any process. One particularly elegant example of tool development was the ...

Bromodomain 4: a cellular Swiss army knife.

Bromodomain protein 4 (BRD4) is a transcriptional and epigenetic regulator that plays a pivotal role in cancer and inflammatory diseases. BRD4 binds and stays associated with chromatin during mitosis, bookmarking early G1 genes and reactivating transcription after mitotic silencing. BRD4 plays an important role in transcription, both as a passive scaffold via its recruitment of vital transcript...