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Detector Description and Performance for the First Coincidence Observations between LIGO and GEO
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer
gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their
first data for scientific analysis. Although the detectors were still far from
their design sensitivity levels, the data can be used to place better upper
limits on the flux of gravitational waves incident on the earth than previous
direct measurements. This paper describes the instruments and the data in some
detail, as a companion to analysis papers based on the first data.Comment: 41 pages, 9 figures 17 Sept 03: author list amended, minor editorial
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Caracterização morfológica de minas foliares em espécies de Melastomataceae de Mata Atlùntica, PE
Size Doesn't Matter: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy of Biology
notes: As the primary author, OâMalley drafted the paper, and gathered and analysed data (scientific papers and talks). Conceptual analysis was conducted by both authors.publication-status: Publishedtypes: ArticlePhilosophers of biology, along with everyone else, generally perceive life to fall into two broad categories, the microbes and macrobes, and then pay most of their attention to the latter. âMacrobeâ is the word we propose for larger life forms, and we use it as part of an argument for microbial equality. We suggest that taking more notice of microbes â the dominant life form on the planet, both now and throughout evolutionary history â will transform some of the philosophy of biologyâs standard ideas on ontology, evolution, taxonomy and biodiversity. We set out a number of recent developments in microbiology â including biofilm formation, chemotaxis, quorum sensing and gene transfer â that highlight microbial capacities for cooperation and communication and break down conventional thinking that microbes are solely or primarily single-celled organisms. These insights also bring new perspectives to the levels of selection debate, as well as to discussions of the evolution and nature of multicellularity, and to neo-Darwinian understandings of evolutionary mechanisms. We show how these revisions lead to further complications for microbial classification and the philosophies of systematics and biodiversity. Incorporating microbial insights into the philosophy of biology will challenge many of its assumptions, but also give greater scope and depth to its investigations
Special Investigations
An interview between Randy Lee Cutler and John Cussans exploring the relationship of research to artistic practice highlighting shared concerns that have arisen in their respective work and geographical contexts with specific reference to Cussans's artistic research project The Skullcracker Suite
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Role of diagnostic testing in identifying and resolving dimensional-stability problems in electroplated laser mirrors
The metal mirrors which are the subject of this discussion are to be used in the Antares inertial fusion laser system. Antares is a high-power (40 TW), high-energy (35 to 40 kJ), pulsed CO/sub 2/ laser system for the investigation of inertial confinement fusion. The system contains more than four hundred small and large diamond-turned and conventionally polished mirrors. The largest mirrors are trapezoidal in shape with the longest dimension being 16 to 18 inches. The substrates are type 2124 aluminum for most large mirrors, and aluminum bronze, oxygen-free copper or a copper-zirconium alloy for most of the smaller mirrors. The optical surface is electro-deposited copper 20 to 40 mils thick. After nondestructive testing and rough machining, the electroplated surface is single-point diamond machined or conventionally polished
Production and purification of recombinant human interleukin-5 from yeast and baculovirus expression systems
A cDNA for human interleukinâ5 (hILâ5) was created from the hILâ5 gene using siteâdirected mutagenesis to splice out the introns in vitro. This cDNA was expressed in yeast and baculovirus systems, utilizing in both cases an inâframe fusion to the pre sequence of the αâmatingâtype factor to direct secretion. The highest level of production was achieved from Sf9 cells using a baculovirus vector in serumâcontaining medium (2.7 mg/l), whereas in serumâfree medium ten times less hILâ5 was produced. In the yeast system much lower levels of hILâ5 were produced (12.5 ÎŒg/l). Recombinant hILâ5 was purified to homogeneity from serumâfree baculovirus cultures. The rhILâ5 consisted of a 30âkDa homodimer linked by disulfide bridging. The purified recombinant protein had a specific activity on murine BCL1 cells of 1.5x104 U/mg, of 3x105 U/mg in the murine eosinophil differentiation factor assay, and 2.4x107 U/mg in a human peripheral eosinophil maintenance assay
Continuous reef growth during the last 23 cal kyr BP in a tectonically active zone (Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific)
RECOVERY FROM GLUCOCORTICOID INHIBITION OF THE RESPONSES TO CORTICOTROPHIN-RELEASING HORMONE
New Ideas about the Origin of Agriculture Based on 50 Years of Museum-Curated Plant Remains
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74056/1/j.1749-6632.1981.tb28178.x.pd
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