There is a large body of research devoted to hunting lions in the Sahara Desert [2]. In none of these, however, is any concern given to feeding the lion once it is captured. In this note, we propose feeding Stan Wagon to the lion. Place an orange in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Cut it up into a finite number of pieces and rearrange the pieces to form the Sun. The gravity of the Sun will the...

We study a fragmentation problem where an initial object of size x is broken into m random pieces provided x > x0 where x0 is an atomic cut-off. Subsequently the fragmentation process continues for each of those daughter pieces whose sizes are bigger than x0. The process stops when all the fragments have sizes smaller than x0. We show that the fluctuation of the total number of splitting events...

We study a fragmentation problem where an initial object of size x is broken into m random pieces provided x > x0 where x0 is an atomic cut-off. Subsequently the fragmentation process continues for each of those daughter pieces whose sizes are bigger than x0. The process stops when all the fragments have sizes smaller than x0. We show that the fluctuation of the total number of splitting events...

The problem studied in this paper arises from a simple practical problem: how to divide a cake among the children attending a birthday p a r t y i n s u c h a way that each c hild gets the same amount o f c a k e and (perhaps more important to them) the same amount of icing. Let S be a convex set contained in the (xx y)-plane. In mathematical terms, a c a k e C with base S is a solid containing...

We present a method for the design of 3D constructions from planar pieces that can be cut easily and cheaply with laser cutters and similar Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines. By cutting tight slits in intersecting pieces, they can be slid into each other forming stable configurations without any gluing or additional connectors. These constructions enable quick prototyping and easy explo...

The ganglion on the dorsal surface of the heart of Limulus polyphemus originates the impulses which cause the contractions of the cardiac muscle (1). In large specimens the portion of the dorsal nerve cord which contains the ganglion cells may be 10 or even 12 cm. in length and one naturally wonders where in the extent of this long structure the impulse actually arises. Does it arise in a speci...

A series of fire experiments were carried out in a wind tunnel at the United States Forest Service’s Fire Science Laboratory in Missoula, Montana. The experiments involved tines cut out of pieces of cardboard. The pieces were laid out in comb-like strips parallel to each other along a testbed. They were ignited at the windward end of the testbed. The progress of the fire was monitored by thermo...

Traditionally, we usually utilize the method of shotgun to cut a DNA sequence into pieces and we have to reconstruct the original DNA sequence from the pieces, those are widely used method for DNA assembly. Emerging DNA sequence technologies open up more opportunities for molecular biology. This paper introduce a new method to improve the efficiency of reconstructing DNA sequence using suffix a...

BACKGROUND High hydrostatic pressure (HHP) treatment can eliminate cholesteatoma cells from explanted human ossicles prior to re-insertion. We analyzed the effects of HHP treatment on the microbial flora on ossicles and on the planktonic and biofilm states of selected isolates. METHODOLOGY Twenty-six ossicles were explanted from cholesteatoma patients. Five ossicles were directly analyzed for...

A stochastic model of hierarchical series system type for the bending strength of spruce beams is defined from the anticipation that the bending failure takes place at a cross-section with a defect cluster formed by knots or grain irregularities. The parameters of the model are estimated from measurements of the strengths of a large number of short test pieces cut from the beams such that judge...