We present a new homogeneous survey of VLT/FLAMES LR8 line-of-sight radial velocities ( v los ) for 1604 resolved red giant branch stars in the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In addition, we provide reliable Ca II triplet metallicities, [Fe/H], 1339 these stars. From this combination observations (2257 individual spectra) with ESO archival data (2389 spectra), obtain largest and most complet...

Mutations in the eff-1 gene of Caenorhabditis elegans, which prevent all cell-cell fusions in the nematode's epidermis, have revealed developmental roles for cell fusion. An extracellular fusogen-like domain in EFF-1 suggests it might direct the fusion of lipid bilayers.

The prints of Sebald Beham and his brother Barthel were the subject of a recent exhibition titled Gottlosen Maler at the AlbrechtDűrer-Haus in Nuremberg (March 3–July 3, 2011), where this essay was included in the exhibition catalogue in German. Revised and expanded for publication in this journal in English, the essay addresses Beham’s biography and historiography and argues that Beham should ...

This paper presents a method for painting texture interactively on a 3D model. Unlike some previously published methods, the technique presented here does not require a grid topology and does not require a dense mesh. The resolution of the texture map produced is independent of the density of the geometry. We also discuss the application in a 3D application of various brushes traditional to 2D ...

Tim nineteenth-century artist Richard Dadd, who spent most of his working life confined in the Criminal Lunatic Asylums at Bethlem and Broadmoor, is quite well known, and ever increasingly so, to the art world; his name is less well known, perhaps, in the sphere of psychiatric history. Dadd was born at Chatham in 1817, the third son and fourth child of Robert Dadd, who owned a chemist's busines...

An online Ramsey game (G, H) is a game between Builder and Painter, alternating in turns. In each round Builder draws an edge and Painter colors it either red or blue. Builder wins if after some round there is a monochromatic copy of the graph H, otherwise Painter is the winner. The rule for Builder is that after each his move the resulting graph must belong to the class of graphs G. In this ab...