Abstract Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald has been conceived in order to be a matching donor for her older sister Kate, who rare form of leukaemia. The story the novel “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jody Picoult, and Nick Cassavetes’ movie, many striking similarities situations that we heard from families studied – despite one significant difference: is created saviour sibling, whereas stem cell dono...

D flip flop is one of the fundamental building blocks in most digital designs. Many high speed digital circuits such as memory require high speed and low power consumption. In existing method, the charge keeper is used to provide strong 0 and strong 1 since it uses pass transistor for signal feed through technique. A new D Flip Flop is proposed with signal feed through technique using transmiss...

The aim of these notes is to contribute to the dialog between P systems and Biological Sciences focussing on membrane proteins involved either in iron transport inside the bacterial cells or in elimination outside the bacterial cells of substances which are dangerous for the cell. The ability of these membrane proteins to behave as Maxwell’s demon, gate keeper, or as “a being who can see the in...

THE Deputy Keeper of the Public Records of Northern Ireland has kindly allowed us to reproduce th,is attendance or class certificate issued by Doctor Laennec in 1826 to John Creery Ferguson (Figure 1). John Ferguson was a native of Tandragee, County Armagh. Born in 1802, he received the degree of M.B. from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and became eventually the second professor of medicine ...

Off-line beat trackers are often compared to human tappers who provide a ground truth against which they can be judged. In order to evaluate a real-time beat tracker, we have taken the paradigm of the ‘Turing Test’ in which an interrogator is asked to distinguish between human and machine. A drummer plays in succession with an interactive accompaniment that has one of three possible tempocontro...