lunes, 27 de septiembre de 2010

This week in Mathematics and Computation



Edinburgh Lectures on Geometry, Analysis and Physics

Orientation saliency without visual cortex and target selection in archer fish

Bihemispheric foundations for human speech comprehension

Astn2, A Novel Member of the Astrotactin Gene Family, Regulates the Trafficking of ASTN1 during Glial-Guided Neuronal Migration

Efficient High-Quality Volume Rendering of SPH Data

http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2010/sf/aep/NETS004/NETS004.html

This week in Ecology and Society



An abrupt drop in Northern Hemisphere sea surface temperature around 1970

Warming of Global Abyssal and Deep Southern Ocean Waters Between the 1990s and 2000s: Contributions to Global Heat and Sea Level Rise Budgets

CONSERVATION ECOLOGY:
Home, Home Outside the Range?


Incoherent phylogeographic inference

Long-term reductions in anthropogenic nutrients link to improvements in Chesapeake Bay habitat


Videos and Pictures of the week

MAPPING STEREOTYPES

New Aurora Webcam Captures Spectacular Videos, Images

Hurricane Igor as it was plowing through the subtropics last week as a Category 4 monster


Augmented Reality Book from marklukas on Vimeo.


KM3D-1 from artschoolvets on Vimeo.

This week in Biology and Chemistry


Eocene Patagonia Fossils of the Daisy Family

Fluorescence Anisotropy Reveals Order and Disorder of Protein Domains in the Nuclear Pore Complex

In vivo imaging of labelled endogenous β-actin mRNA during nucleocytoplasmic transport

Diversity-oriented synthesis as a tool for the discovery of novel biologically active small molecules

Ice as a protocellular medium for RNA replication

This week in Astronomy and Physics



COLLISIONAL GROOMING MODELS OF THE KUIPER BELT DUST CLOUD

Near-deterministic preparation of a single atom in an optical microtrap

Ptychographic X-ray computed tomography at the nanoscale

Near-deterministic preparation of a single atom in an optical microtrap

Hawking radiation from ultrashort laser pulse filaments



sábado, 11 de septiembre de 2010

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This week in Mathematics and Computation



Acting Deceptively: Providing Robots with the Capacity for Deception

Quantum Computing

Significance analysis and statistical mechanics: an application to clustering

Advanced hardware and software tools for fast multidimensional imaging of living cells

Relating Introspective Accuracy to Individual Differences in Brain Structure

Generalized Central Limit Theorem and Renormalization Group

2-plectic geometry, Courant algebroids, and categorified prequantization

This week in Ecology and Society



Road will ruin Serengeti

Glaciation as a destructive and constructive control on mountain building

haracterization of Prochlorococcus clades from iron-depleted oceanic regions

Narrowing the US energy efficiency gap

Comparative water use of native and invasive plants at multiple scales: a global meta-analysis

Effects of population size on plant reproduction and pollinator abundance in a specialized pollination system


This week in Astronomy and Physics



PAMELA Results on the Cosmic-Ray Antiproton Flux from 60 MeV to 180 GeV in Kinetic Energy

Black Strings, Low Viscosity Fluids, and Violation of Cosmic Censorship

Kahler-Einstein metrics emerging from free fermions and statistical mechanics

Geographic muting of changes in the Arctic sea ice cover

Global Distribution of Large Lunar Craters: Implications for Resurfacing and Impactor Populations

Phase Conjugation and Negative Refraction using Nonlinear Active Metamaterials

General Relativistic Description of the Observed Galaxy Power Spectrum: Do We Understand What We Measure?

This week in Biology and Chemistry



Trapping a Diradical Transition State by Mechanochemical Polymer Extension

Transposable elements have rewired the core regulatory network of human embryonic stem cells

Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem cells

Diffusion-Limited Reactions in Crowded Environments

MICU1 encodes a mitochondrial EF hand protein required for Ca2+ uptake

Designing sequential transcription logic: a simple genetic circuit for conditional memory

The structure of (CENP-A–H4)2 reveals physical features that mark centromeres

Fast live simultaneous multiwavelength four-dimensional optical microscopy

viernes, 3 de septiembre de 2010

This week in Biology and Chemistry



PRDM9 variation strongly influences recombination hot-spot activity and meiotic instability in humans

Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Antagonists Promote the Expansion of Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Endogenous HMGB1 regulates autophagy

Ligand Field Theory and the Origin of Life as an Emergent Feature of the Periodic Table of Elements

Aquaporin-3 mediates hydrogen peroxide uptake to regulate downstream intracellular signaling

Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations

Graphene as a subnanometre trans-electrode membrane

This week in Mathematics and Computation



Molecular Nanoelectronics

Mammography image quality optimisation: a Monte Carlo study

Systems biology: The cost of feedback control

Greater Neural Pattern Similarity Across Repetitions Is Associated with Better Memory

Instantaneous Non-Linear Processing by Pulse-Coupled Threshold Units

Information geometry of density matrices and state estimation

Determinant Sums for Undirected Hamiltonicity

Quantum Storage of Photonic Entanglement in a Crystal

This week in Ecology and Society



Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments

Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010

Farewell to Fossil Fuels?

Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism

How to sample the carbon isotopes of tropical ecosystems without leaving your armchair

This week in Astronomy and Physics



Geodesic scattering by surface deformations of a topological insulator

Spin States in Graphene Quantum Dots

On a possible definition of the moving preferred basis

Anatomy of a deformed symmetry: field quantization on curved momentum space

Twisting Space-Time: Relativistic Origin of Seed Magnetic Field and Vorticity

Is there further evidence for spatial variation of fundamental constants?

2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone