In the past few years physiological experiments have brought us a little closer to an understanding of some forms of developmental amblyopia-deficits of visual acuity of central, not retinal, origin, which are not correctable by optical means. While amblyopia has become a catch-all term that covers the symptoms of a multitude of disorders, there are certain stereotyped experimental procedures t...

and the physical. If you want to understand the fundamental and universal properties of a computational process, study the abstract algorithm and prove a theorem about it. If you want to know how the process really works, implement the algorithm as a program and measure the running time (or another quantity of interest). This distinction between the abstract model and the physical artifact exis...

Among all of the biological macromolecules, the functional versatility of RNAs is unique including encoding or transferring genetic information and performing catalysis. These biological functions are highly dependent upon RNA folding and structure. Since the discovery of catalytic RNAs in the early 1980s, a recent breakthrough came from the identification of a wealth of micro RNAs, small inter...

Program analysis techniques are used by software engineers to deduce and infer characteristics of software systems. Recent research has suggested that certain program analysis techniques can be formulated as formal experiments. This article reports the results of research exploring this suggestion. Building on principles and methodologies underlying the use of experimentation in other fields, w...

SOUND AND VIBRATION/JANUARY 2001 Often times, people ask some simple questions regarding modal analysis and how structures vibrate. Most times, it is impossible to describe this simply and some of the basic underlying theory needs to be addressed in order to fully explain some of these concepts. However, many times the theory is just a little too much to handle and some of the concepts can be d...

background: accumulating evidence indicates that inflammatory cells migrate into the pancreas tissue and play an important role in the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis (ap). the aim of this study was to establish a flow cytometric method to enumerate these infiltrating cells in the pancreas of an experimental ap. materials and methods: twelve hours after inducing of ap, mice pancreatic tissue...