Monday, February 22, 2010

the right words for what happened



CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS FROM DESERT TO MARS
MARIA GRILLI CAIOLA AND DANIELA BILLI
Chroococcidiopsis show some features worthy of attention such as its capacity to survive to long-term A)desiccation and deprivation conditions of B)basic nutritional elements, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, and then to recover when water and nutritional elements are available. It can survive C) ionizing radiation by repairing DNA damages and it may be genetically modified
in order to enhance its resistance to extraterrestrial conditions. Chroococcidiopsis is able to live in conditions proximal to the limits of life on Earth. At the moment it is impossible to establish whether or not it will be able to survive to the limiting life conditions present on Mars

sense of oblivion caused by the network of transportation constitute the new public domain

Sustained administration of a 5-HT1A-R agonist or the serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) causes internalization of the 5-HT1A auto receptors in the raphé neurons but not the postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors in the hippocampus. This is also believed to be the basis of action of the SSRIs.

field line advection in computational fluid dynamics: trained with
a complete script and given 150 leads a day

multisensory immersive interactive cinema capturing playback system

many experiments that have grown C3 field crops under elevated CO2 provide clear evidence that very substantial gains in yield may be achieved by inhibiting photorespiration
(Kimball 1983; Long 1998).
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...hostility it's source and origin i remember and cannot change witness agitations curses burning in the smoke and fire black eyes glanced a storm on which lightning hatred flashed intermittent and fathomless photographs taped to the closet door he ran his aged palm slow slightly trembling over his white hair we were

1) How is water split?
2) What is the chemistry of charge accumulation in the tetra-Mn water-splitting apparatus?
3) What is the function of the inactive parallel electron branch in PSII?
4) Does it provide protection against over excited states?
5) What protein-cofactor interactions account for the high midpoint potential of the primary donor, P680, in PSII and how is energy trapped by the primary donor?

Sunday, February 14, 2010

importance to theater we invoked intelligences between

The photosynthetic potential and efficiency of plants can be limited by the activity of Rubisco over a wide variety of conditions...the maximal rate of the enzyme is very slow...Rubisco is not able to prevent oxygen from reacting with the ribulose bisphosphate...regulation of the activity of Rubisco when environmental conditions are not favorable may impede maximal performance


From Space Came Cor's Disc-city of Vada—Its Mighty, Age-old Engines Weakening— Its Horde of Dwarfs Hungry for the Earth!



MP3:The Dead Take Their Names

“The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness,

...The big opportunity is the promise that growing algae is 20 times more productive per land area than terrestrial crops.
The big challenge - as commercial algae growers know well - is the big cost. Investment and operating cost to achieve algal productivity is far higher than terrestrial crops.
Today algae is grown commercially for higher value products such as food and feed supplements and pharmaceutical extracts, selling for 10 to 50 times more than fuel....

...........one gets the intuition that using microrganisms to efficiently manufacture useful things more will be sort of inevitable if human civilization winds up continuing a few generations into the future. Creating an prokaryotic agriculture might not be prof
itable for the present but it should eventually be a part of the future.....

CYANOBACTERIA, bibliography:


read:
Algal Culturing Techniques ed. Robert A. Andersen (2005)
Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology Laura Barsanti Paolo Gualtieri (2005)
Spirulina Vonshak (1997)
Spirulina in human nutrition and health / ed M.E. Gershwin, Amha Belay (2007)
***Algae and Cyanobacteria in Extreme Environments ed Joseph Seckbach (2007)
***The Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria (Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration) D.A. Bryant (1995)
((((****The Prokaryotes: Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria ed Martin Dworkin))))

looking to read:
Handbook of Microalgal Culture ~ Amos Richmond
The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Evolution ed Antonia Herrero, Enrique Flores
Microalgae: Biotechnology and Microbiology (Cambridge Studies in Biotechnology)~ E. W. Becker

Algal Biotechnology Edited by Pravin Chandra Trivedi



B. A. Whitton, and M. Potts (ed.), The ecology of cyanobacteria. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000)

Now then he makes a journey in his new house, and perceives at stated times, each time proceeded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. Death he sees, and the Life of Nature whose name is Sorrow, and the Word that quickeneth these, and his own self -- and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the

Psychedelic Death Vomit (Slight Return) 3d, 2010 from Yoshi Sodeoka on Vimeo.


...obsessed by living culture for so many years, eventually it begins to look like a pretty dress on a young girl...when the girl gets old, the dress only looks silly. of course..."He took a drag of his cigarette and placed it back in the ashtray "...There are the political aspects of culture, the ways in which it influences the power that one group has over another...the ways that languages determine your persona and its thought. Power is such a labyrinth, no? When does one man deserve to have power over another? When do some words have more quality than others, some pictures more quality than others...some sounds...What makes us need to read something versus something else we reject as superficial or unimportant - What would happen if we did not express..."

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

the strands of the eclipse


screen cap from Genuine: The Tale of a Vampire
International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies (InterACT) held a landmark videoconference last week to demonstrate new breakthroughs in cross-lingual communication. InterACT director, computer science professor Alex Waibel demonstrated domain-independent, speech-to-speech translation in a lecture, which was simultaneously translated from English to Spanish to German.

identity column...what they mistakenly believed was time...it's all the same the high and the low the pretension and the vulgar...something more subtle than the ordinary meanings of words...

connectome with machine learning, the researchers teach computers to learn by example. They feed their computer electron microscopic images of brain slices and manual tracings of the tangled connections between the neurons. The computer then searches for an algorithm that allows it to imitate human performance.

class-based method dispatch and lexically scoped variables
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Vaclov Smil: Feeding the World: How can we best feed some 10 billion people who will likely inhabit the Earth during the 21st century?

supply-

LAND (km2/per capita)/WATER (m3/per capita)/NUTRIENTS (nitrogen; phosphorus) /PHOTOSYNTHESIS

...in most agroecosystems water is the most limiting growth factor during most years (p39)

...of the roughly 250,000 described higher plants, about 30,000 species are known to be edible, some 7,000 of them have been actually used as food, only 150 have ever become important crops, and only fifteen species produce 90 percent of all food. The three leading cereal crops- wheat, rice, and corn- supply almost two-thirds of all food energy and slightly more than half of all protein derived from plants...(p.52)

demand-
total per capita food energy supply has increased with increasing affluence from less than 2,500 kcal/day to satiation levels between 2,800 and 3,000 kcal/day... (p.250)

LAND- an overwhelmingly vegetarian diet produced by high-intensity cropping would require no more than 700-800 m2/per capita a fairly balanced Chinese diet of the late 1900a- supplying about 2,800 k/cal per day with about 15 percent of this coming from animal foodstuffs...in contrast the Western diet, with large share of meat/dairy, claims up to 4,000 m2/per capita...but much of this is wasted (p 38)
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Manipulation of Rubisco: the amount, activity, function and regulation.....Genetic modification to increase the specificity of Rubisco for CO2 relative to O2 and to increase the catalytic rate of Rubisco in crop plants would have great agronomic importance....

Since photorespiration seems wasteful, it would seem that decreasing the oxygenase/carboxylase ratio of RuBP carboxylase somewhat would be a logical method of reducing photorespiration and increasing net photosynthesis. This has not yet been accomplished. The attempts to do this and the problems that must be surmounted have been reviewed (Hartman and Harpel 1994; Spreitzer 1999). However, some biochemists...

I want to be a force for real good. I want to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start immediately to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I’d like to play a certain song and he’ll be cured. When he’d be broke, I’d bring out a different song and immediately he’ll get all the money he needed. But what these pieces are and what is the road to attain the knowledge of them… that I don’t know. The true powers of music are still unknown, to be able to control them must be, I believe, the power of every musician.


bad character from defetto on Vimeo.




leaf photosynthetic capacity
(i.e., maximal carboxylation rate, Vcmax,
maximal photosynthetic electron transport rate, Jmax,
and dark respiration, Rd)
was estimated