the scientific american book of mathematical puzzles and diversions

... THE SECOND SCIENTIFCC - L MERICAN BOOK 0 F MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND DIVERSIONS 1 MARTIN GARDNER THE SECOND SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN BOOK OF Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions ... v. 2 of The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1961. Bibliography: p. 1. Mathematical recreations. I. Scientific American. ... strip of paper a s explained in the first Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. .. familiar with the binary system To facilitate finding the three

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... axis of the tube and the path of the ray coincide The astronauts know that the axis of the tube is circular because Bob has measured the curvature of the walls along the length of the tube using ... by the decay of something other than a top and antitop pair The Fermilab observations include other bit of evidence that supports thetop-quark hypothesis The bottom quarkproduced by the decay of ... on the cardboard lining of the pilings and generated enough methane to rupture the pilings and bring down part of the bridge How Bridges Fail I 68 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN March 1993 The Collapse of

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... on the type of atoms in the material and their crystal structure— the spacing and shape of the lattice that they form By substituting various other atoms (called dopants) into the ... index of the glass, and the size and arrangement of all the holes Perfect cancellation in all directions for a narrow band of wave- confined to the two-micron solid core, the fiber ... to which babies often respond is the flash- ing on and off of a table lamp. Select some arbitrary response —for example, lifting the hand. Whenever the baby lifts its hand, flash the light. In a

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... them—the type of work they did; whether they felt stress; their age, gen-der, and spiritual orientation; and most important, what they felt was the meaning of their dreams This collection of dreams ... choosing their partners, and they often had deliberately prepared for love in advance of meeting their partner We’ll look at the experiences of these couples throughout the book How THis Book works ... rapidly from the successes and observations of others We can learn the language of inner wisdom through the stories of others, and this triggers greater awareness of how our own sense of cer-tainty

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... in the fernsle, short and stout, third joint very and slender, joints gra.dulally ~~ornilllg shorter Abdomen and in the small and with a in the rnsle of the rnsle very shorter in the female and ... X.- THE NORTH AMERICA~SPECIES OF NEUROTERUS AND 'l'HEIR GALLS By WILLIA2\f BEUTENMULLER PLATES VIII-XIII The paper constitut('s the seventh installment of a series of papers on North American and ... seventh installment of a series of papers on North American and their which have been lished me in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural Beurotertlll Nellroterull HARTIG, Zeitsch fUr Ent.,

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... by changes in the nature of war andreinforced by changes in the nature of the state A second set of critiques, and the basis of the secondpart of the argument, deals with the way these existing ... long after the leader who initiatedthe war has stepped down and the war has ended, reducing the political costs to the leader and of the war In the run-up to the Spanish-American War, the Chicago ... background of the war and the form of war finance The analytical part of the Trang 15chapter evaluates the source of public attitudes toward war and the degree to which public attitudesaffected the

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... recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Trang 619 The Image of the Reader in Rembrandt’s Art 24 Rembrandt as Rag-picker and Book-hunter? ... illuminates the head and hand of Six, thesword hilt upon the table, and the pile of books, the top one opened, on a bench in the left corner Here, as in many other works by brandt, the books are ... in the market and shops The Ubiquitous Book A brief survey of the role of the book in the Netherlands helps to plain how books were intrinsic to the material culture surroundingRembrandt The

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... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and ... 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute ... of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of

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... periods The middle panel shows the volatility of thebond rate over 12 months This is computed at the date t as the standarderror of the series over the interval [t-12, t] And the bottom panel showsthe ... to the central place of the German policy inthe European Monetary System before the launch of the ECB and becausethe German bond rates remain the benchmark for the long-term interest rates in the ... by agents about the structure of the economyand the policymaker preferences Hence, these two features increase thesensitivity of in‡ation expectations and of the term structure of interest rates

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... sufficient to pay back the principal and interest of all loans and the dividends of shareholders over the life of the contract. The unitary charge as a whole constitutes the cashflow from the public to ... understanding of the relationship between the returns which contractors earn from PFI projects and the risks they actually bear. At present the available information is limited and rather mixed… The ... cost to the Government’s use of private finance, involving the extra cost of the private sector securing funds in the market, but a great part of the difference between the cost of public and private

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... summarizes the results of the estimation The table provides statistics that describe median estimates and the standard deviation of the estimates, some aspects of its range, and the number of firms ... and performance The Center fosters the development of a community of faculty, visiting scholars and Ph.D candidates whose research interests complement and support the mission of the Center The ... (inclusive of both its portfolio of foreign exchange instruments and the position implicit in its other We estimate the equation at both daily and monthly frequencies, and the returns and the exchange

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... In the analyses of landscapes, the distance from the bottom of the picture to the location of the horizon was mea-sured.4 In the analyses of portraits, we measured the ratio of the area of the ... Ratio of the 14.65 12.50 4.28 8.33 9.10 001 face area to the frame TABLE 3: Average Ratio in Percentage of the Height of the Horizon to the Height of the Entire Frame and the Average Ratio of the ... in the labo-ratory, a photograph of the model standing against a wall, a photograph of the model sitting on a chair in the atrium of the building, and a photograph of the model standing in the

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... shown on the left The immunoreactive IAT bands of 40 kDa, 29 kDa and 11 kDa are indicated by arrows on the right Note the presence of the 40-kDa band and the absence of the 11-kDa IAT band in the ... [4] IAT of P chrysogenum and A nidulans catalyses the third step of penicillin biosynthesis, namely the hydrolysis of the peptide (amide) bond between a-aminoadipic acid and cysteine of the penicillin ... fragment of the pT7-7 system To avoid problems in the assay of IAT due to degradation of isopenicillin N by the penicillinase encoded by the ampicillin resistance gene of the pT7-7 system, the pT7-7-penDE

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... activity of the salt, and LU and LF are the number of salt ions bound by the unfolded and folded states of the apoprotein, respectively Determination of kinetic and thermodynamic constants for the ... is the concentration of denaturant; DGw is the change in free energy between the folded and unfolded states in the absence of the denaturant (the Ôconformational stabilityÕ of the protein), and, ... plots of the logarithm of the equilibrium constant (Kapp) for the unfolding of apo¯avodoxin calculated at 2.94 M (j) and 3.43 M (d) urea vs the logarithm of the mean activity of NaCl (ln a‹) the

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... not the names ofDanish kings, that it was before the first days of the greatness of Ethelbert of Kent, the overlord of all England, the Bretwalda, and therefore, as Father Wislac counts, about the ... in the pedigrees of the manypetty kings Trang 2One of the most curious proofs of the actual British origin of the legend is in the statement that the death ofHavelok's father occurred as the ... taken, and would becontent to share the booty with them The Welsh king was of the line of Arthur, and one who yet hoped to win back the land of his fathers from theSaxons and English; and so

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... majority of the members of thestate board just don’t understand thenature of science,” adds Angel, one ofthe 27 authors of the rejected Kansasscience standards Nor does the culture of science, ... pinot, a no-ble red grape of Burgundy and Cham-pagne, and gouais blanc.The genetic di-versity of the two may explain the quali-ty of the resulting offspring, and knowing the lineage should help ... Deborah S Jin of theNational Institute of Standards andTechnology and the University of Col-orado at Boulder and her graduate stu-dent Brian DeMarco Bosons represent the gregarious side of the quantum

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... respectively of healthy controls as the distribution of the data was non-parametric. 9 Results Serum Neurokin A levels in autistic children and their relation to the degree of the severity of autism ... and starting apoptosis, a defect in the synthesis of apolipoprotein B resulting in accumulation of lipids inside the cell, and downregulation of the total protein synthesis ... the diagnosis of autism according to the 4 th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [30]. The autistic group comprised 55 males and 15 females. Their ages ranged

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... played on the veranda, there was the sound of busy feet inside the house, and an air of bustle and hurrying to and fro. Robert knew the cause of this and was feeling very happy. His father, Colonel ... uniforms of the officers and the white gowns of the ladies showed gleamingly. Paul Jones wore the full uniform of an American captain and his gold sword. He carried his blue and gold cap in his hand. ... owned the next estate, hired George to go all over his land in Virginia and put on paper for him the names of the people who lived in the Shenandoah valley, the way the roads ran, and the size of...

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... what they did they were a part of history: they belonged to the United States government. But now they were sitting on the throne of God, the only being higher than the president of the United ... in the history of America felt in one rush. They suddenly had proof of God, they were the most important men to have ever lived, they had jurisdiction over the earth, they were absolved of ... of the Americans 87 10: Interpretation of Dreams 91 11: The American Cell 96 12: God Bless America 102 13: Book of Revelations 115 14: North of Sunset 126 15: The Hot War 137 16: Den of...

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