Clusia is the only genus with bona fide dicotyledonous trees performing Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). Clusia minor L. is extraordinarily flexible, being C(3)/CAM intermediate and expressing the photosynthetic modes C(3), CAM, CAM-cycling, and CAM-idling. C(3) photosynthesis and CAM can be observed simultaneously in two opposite leaves on a node and possibly even within the same leaf in th...

As two of the top three Saint Mary’s administrators prepare to step down from their positions this spring — marking a new era at the College — students and faculty have the opportunity to meet two candidates vying for the position of vice president and dean of faculty at open forums this week. Saint Mary’s religious studies p ro fesso r Joe In c a n d e la and Dean of the Faculty a t Colgate Un...

"Holy Grail" is a well-known metaphor for the eternal spiritual pursuit for truth and wisdom. It suggests that in order for us to find what no one has found, we must search where few have looked. In 2013, a group led by Helen Mayberg published a groundbreaking paper that sought an answer to one of the most discussed conundrums in psychiatry and neuroscience: Can specific patterns of brain activ...

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Unsupervised machine learning techniques are described and applied on the mildly preprocessed Arabic text of the Holy Qur’an, with promising results. Topic modelling based on nonnegative matrix factorization was used to successfully extract meaningful topics underlying the set of 6236 verses in the corpus. Data visualization using t-SNE dimensionality reduction correctly grouped verses of the H...

T hree years and a 12-place ju m p in the polls a p p a re n tly m ake a difference of $55 for Notre Dame students hoping to t r a v e l to th e NCAA h o c k e y regionals beginning tonight in Grand Rapids, Mich. S en io r Jo h n n y M cD erm ott has fond memories of traveling in 2004 to then-No. 13 Notre D am e’s only previous gam e in the NCAA hockey tournam ent. He got a bus trip, a box lunc...