We present deep wide field (16.4× 16.4 ) Washington CT1 CCD surface photometry of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4472, the brightest member in the Virgo cluster. Our data cover a wider field than any previous CCD photometry as well as going deeper. Surface brightness profiles of NGC 4472 are not well fit by a single King model, but they can be fit approximately by two King models: with separat...

a boom in a wild population, although with some unintended consequences: As a way to feed the Soviet Union’s growing northern population, king crabs native to the North Pacific were introduced into the Barents Sea in the 1960s. Now thriving, this population has been welcomed by the fishing industry, as these crabs are a profitable catch. Unfortunately, these crabs are also ravenous omnivores an...

D r Martin Luther King popularized the notion of the Beloved Community, a term first coined in the early days of the twentieth century by philosopher-theologian Josiah Royce. Dr King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equal opportunity, and love of one’s fellow human beings. As explained by The King Center, the memorial institution founded by Coretta Scott King to f...

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, King County, Washington (1998 population: 1.6 million), experienced a substantial epidemic of infectious syphilis (i.e., primary, secondary, and early latent). Subsequently, reported cases of infectious syphilis declined to six cases in 1995 and one in 1996; five of the 1995 cases and the case in 1996 were believed to have been acquired outside King County...

The recent breakthroughs in assembling long error-prone reads were based on the overlap-layout-consensus (OLC) approach and did not utilize the strengths of the alternative de Bruijn graph approach to genome assembly. Moreover, these studies often assume that applications of the de Bruijn graph approach are limited to short and accurate reads and that the OLC approach is the only practical para...

Transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) overcomes limitations of previously used RNA quantification methods and provides one experimental framework for both high-throughput characterization and quantification of transcripts at the nucleotide level. The first step and a major challenge in the analysis of such experiments is the mapping of sequencing reads to a transcriptomic origin including the iden...

is only observed indirectly. For example, we might have a spectrum and want to determine the species that produced it as well as their relative proportions. Or we may have sonar measurements of a containment tank and want to know whether it has an internal crack. Here is this issue’s homework assignment: given a blurred image and a linear model for the blurring, reconstruct the original image. ...

plato in theory of philosopher-king believes that all of the members of ideal city-state, whether ruler or citizens, will attain happiness if the philosopher is the ruler. but there are paradoxes in the theory and the bases of the happiness are unstable too. in other words, plato in his theory presents hierarchical dualities (intelligible/visible world, episteme/ doxa,true/ untrue or shadow, …)...