David S. Goodsell, a renowned researcher in molecular biology, and an artist, combines his scientific interest in biological molecules with his passion for painting in this wonderful new edition of his book The Machinery of Life. The book is aimed at non-scientific readers and at researchers from different disciplines who are looking for a quick and entertaining, but scientifically sound, intro...

Servicing industrial machinery and automation systems over their life targets at fast response and fast resolution. It requires skills, engineering knowledge and various data about the machine, its industrial environment, data from automation systems in the plant and historical information, which needs to be collected, correlated and analyzed. The advent of tiny smart devices such as RFID and n...

background : chaff cutter, a commonly used fodder cutter machine in rural parts of india is responsible for a significant number of agricultural-related accidents. mostly, these accidents lead to amputation of the upper extremities and the fatal injuries are extremely rare. case report: this article presents a very unusual case of fatal head injury and crush injury to right leg sustained by a f...

Utilitarians are attracted to the idea that an act is morally right iff it leads to the best outcome. But critics have pointed out that in many cases we cannot determine which of our alternatives in fact would lead to the best outcome. So we can’t use the classic principle to determine what we should do. It’s not “practical”; it’s not “action-guiding”. Some take this to be a serious objection t...

Introduction Most new technology in production agriculture is labor saving and capital intensive. This increases the importance of evaluating the efficiency of asset use. In particular, because they make up a large proportion of assets on most farms, it is important to evaluate land and machinery use (land and machinery made up 46 percent and 20 percent of total assets on Kansas Farm Management...

A Darwinian approach to decision-making mechanisms must focus on the representation of the options between which the animal decides. For example, in matching behavior, is the animal deciding between the different locations in which to forage or simply whether to leave its current location? A neurobiologically informed approach must be concerned with the mechanism of representation itself. In th...

Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved cellular degradation process that targets cytoplasmic materials including cytosol, macromolecules and unwanted organelles. The discovery and analysis of autophagy-related (Atg) proteins have unveiled much of the machinery of autophagosome formation. Although initially autophagy was regarded as a survival response to stress, recent studies ...

Joy is in a unique position to provide comments on this subject as we have been involved with Proximity Detection since the initial research project conducted in 2002 as documented in the Background information of this Information Request. In addition we have been involved to some level with each Proximity Detection manufacturer on every generation of design because of the interface to our cont...

How are natural symbol systems best understood? Traditional "symbolic" approaches seek to understand cognition by analogy to highly structured, prescriptive computer programs. Here, we describe some problems the traditional computational metaphor inevitably leads to, and a very different approach to computation (Ramscar, Yarlett, Dye, Denny, & Thorpe, 2010; Turing, 1950) that allows these probl...

Title of Document: THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARENSIS DNA REPLICATION MACHINERY Miao Pan, Ph.D., 2012 Directed By: Professor Zvi Kelman, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research DNA replication is the basis for the propagation and evolution of living organisms. It requires the combined efforts of numerous proteins. DNA replication in archaea has been shown to be more similar to eukarya than b...