Solubility measurements are critical to the development of any chemical process. Recently in iScience, Shiri et al. describe a modular, “human-out-of-the-loop” platform that uses visual data rather than typical analytical techniques such as high-performance liquid chromatography determine when compound has dissolved. “If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”—Roy Batty Blade Runner ...

Let F be a flat family of projective schemes, whose geometric generic fiber is reduced and irreducible. We give conditions on a special fiber (a “limit” of the family) to guarantee that it too is reduced. These conditions often imply also that the generic fiber is normal. The conditions are particularly easy to check in the setup of a “geometric vertex decomposition” [Knutson-Miller-Yong ’07]. ...

Two mouse-tracking experiments tested predictions from two different models of scalar implicature as to whether exhaustive interpretations are computed prior ignorance implicatures. We use German intonational patterns probe the availability these (Experiments 1 and 2) add a speaker competence manipulation in Experiment 2. Results found that deriving with an L+H* was delayed implicatures L*+H co...

Current GMPLS protocols can be used in a Grid enabled environment by properly defining a new interface between Grid and Transport layers. However, the asymmetric nature of Grid traffic makes GMPLS inefficient when establishing bidirectional connections. The User to Grid traffic is unlikely to be the same as the Grid to User traffic; whilst the location of the processing sites may be of no impor...