We study Mirror Symmetry of log Calabi-Yau surfaces. On one hand, we consider the number of “affine lines” of each degree in P\B, where B is a smooth cubic. On the other hand, we consider coefficients of a certain expansion of a function obtained from the integrals of dx/x ∧ dy/y over 2chains whose boundaries lie on Bφ, where {Bφ} is a family of smooth cubics. Then, for small degrees, they coin...

Identification of mutations in an FGF receptor gene underlying scale loss in a zebrafish mutant, as well as the domesticated mirror carp breed, emphasises the role of genetic redundancy as a facilitator of evolutionary change and has implications for the molecular basis of morphological evolution.

higher-level representations when we are thinking more abstractly. By any metric, my publication record shows that I am quite sympathetic to the idea that sensory and motor systems play a substantial role in what we have traditionally viewed as “higher cognition.” Some cognitive psychologists might even label me as an embodied cognition theorist for all the reasons noted above. But at the same ...

III. Preliminary results 5 IIIa. Three-mirror quasi-optical passive compressor 6 IIIb. Optimization of the three-mirror passive compressor parameters 7 IIIc. Prototype of a passive compressor with a three-mirror resonator 10 IIId. Four-mirror quasi-optical passive compressor 14 IIIe. Prototype of a passive compressor with a four mirror resonator 15 IIIf. Diffraction gratings as active elements ...

Genetic factors are known to play a role in causing lung cancer. Twin cases of bronchioloalveolar, squamous, and anaplastic bronchogenic carcinoma have been previously reported. We describe mirror-image twins with adenocarcinoma of the lung occurring in mirror-image locations. They shared smoking and an occupational risk, carpentry, in addition to identical genetic backgrounds.

This talk was given at the Tunguska-2001 international conference but it is not about the Tunguska event. Instead we tried to give some flavor of mirror matter, which is predicted to exist if parity is an unbroken symmetry of nature, to non-experts. The possible connection of the mirror matter ideas to the Tunguska phenomenon was indicated by Foot and Gninenko some time ago and was elaborated b...

Visual responses in the monkey ventral premotor cortex have been explored since long time. Area F5 has been shown to contain grasping neurons that visually discharge either to 3D-object presentation (canonical neurons) or to the observation of actions performed by other individuals (mirror neurons). It has been suggested that the mirror response results from the progressive generalization to ot...

The discovery of mirror neurons (MNs) has been hailed as the most important finding of the last decade in neuroscience (Ramachandran, 2000), paving the road for the explanation of diverse phenomena from the evolution of language (Rizzolatti & Arbib, 1998), through imitation (Iacoboni et al., 1999), to intersubjectivity (Gallese, 2003). Here I am concerned with the more modest claim that credits...