Voltaire said that Archimedes had more imagination than Homer. Unfortunately, as far as we know, Archimedes’s only use of it, outside of mathematics, was to condemn goldsmiths and to kill people. More peaceful uses of mathematicians’ imagination, to the outside of mathematics, in decreasing order of impact, were provided by Multi-Millionaire Richard Garfield, the Reverend Charles Dodgson, and M...

The corrections of the methodology of power BJT and MOSFET transistor models parameter extraction taking into account the self heating effects are presented For BJT these corrections are included into VBIC model parameter extraction process. For MOSFET current generator connected to standard SPICE MOS model is proposed to take into account drain current growth with transistor temperature.

Background: The surgical count process is currently the recommended strategy for preventing unintentionally retained items (RSIs) in Australia. Despite this, RSIs still occur and remain an internationally recognised issue sentinel event associated with morbidity mortality. There are numerous new emerging strategies to prevent inadvertent RSIs, apart from count, many involve use of technology. T...

Phenotypic plasticity, the capacity of a given genotype to produce differing morphologies in response to the environment, is widespread among marine organisms (1). For example, acorn barnacles feed by extending specialized appendages (the cirral legs) into flow, and the length of the cirri is plastic: the higher the velocity, the shorter the feeding legs (2,3). However, this effect has been exp...

How a homogeneous collective of cells consistently and precisely establishes long-range tissue patterns remains a question of active research. This work explores the hypothesis of plant organs as resonators for electromagnetic radiation. Long-range structural patterns in the developing ovaries and male flower buds of cucurbit plants (zucchini, acorn, and butternut squash), in addition to mature...

Animals eat different foods in proportions that yield a more favorable balance of nutrients. Despite known examples of these behaviors across different taxa, their ecological and physiological benefits remain unclear. We identified a surprising dietary shift that confers ecophysiological advantages in a dung beetle species. Thorectes lusitanicus, a Mediterranean ecosystem species adapted to eat...