Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson

2014 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
APPN Editorial Team
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Inside Surface ◽  
90Th Birthday ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Freeman Dyson ◽  
Data Informed

In an episode of the popular science fiction series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D happened upon a full Dyson sphere when its gravitational fluctuations brought them to a stop. After some analysis of the sphere, Lieutenant Commander Data informed that the inside surface area of the sphere was equal to "250 million class-M worlds".

scholarly journals It’s barcoding Jim, but not as we know it

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2933 (1) ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT H. CRUICKSHANK ◽  
LARS MUNCK
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Tissue Sample ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Species Determination ◽  
Tissue Samples ◽  
Field Workers ◽  
Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Good Analogy

It has long been the dream of many ecologists that one day it will be possible to use a hand-held machine to identify biological specimens in the field (e.g. Janzen 2004). An analogy has been made with the so-called “tricorder” from the popular science fiction televison series Star Trek (Savolainen et al. 2005). This idea has arisen largely from the DNA barcoding community, who promote the use of a single universal DNA sequence (usually the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI) gene) for species identification (Hebert et al. 2003). Such a device is typically imagined as using DNA as the basis for species determination. However, critics of this idea (e.g. Cameron et al. 2006) have argued that a DNA-based device would be impractical as tissue samples would need to be obtained as a source of DNA, which would necessitate handling the specimen. This suggests that the tricorder may not be such a good analogy; whereas, in Star Trek, the crew of the USS Enterprise merely had to point their tricorders at the organism in question, in reality, field-workers using a DNA-based system would have to obtain a tissue sample and load it into the machine in order to identify their specimen (Cameron et al. 2006, p.844).

Functional Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus Nanostructures towards Next-Generation Devices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengke Wang ◽  
Jun Zhu ◽  
You Zi ◽  
Zheng-Guang Wu ◽  
Haiguo Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Area ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Black Phosphorus ◽  
Large Surface Area ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Next Generation

In recent years, two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP) has been widely applied in many fields, such as (opto)electronics, transistors, catalysis and biomedical applications due to its large surface area, tunable...

scholarly journals Suitability of Bronchoscopic Biopsy Tissue Samples for Next-Generation Sequencing

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 391
Author(s):  
Shuji Murakami ◽  
Tomoyuki Yokose ◽  
Daiji Nemoto ◽  
Masaki Suzuki ◽  
Ryou Usui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Next Generation Sequencing ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Rna Sequencing ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Endobronchial Ultrasound ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Endobronchial Ultrasonography ◽  
Tissue Surface ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Generation Sequencing

A sufficiently large tissue sample is required to perform next-generation sequencing (NGS) with a high success rate, but the majority of patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are diagnosed with small biopsy specimens. Biopsy samples were collected from 184 patients with bronchoscopically diagnosed NSCLC. The tissue surface area, tumor cell count, and tumor content rate of each biopsy sample were evaluated. The impact of the cut-off criteria for the tissue surface area (≥1 mm2) and tumor content rate (≥30%) on the success rate of the Oncomine Dx Target Test (ODxTT) was evaluated. The mean tissue surface area of the transbronchial biopsies was 1.23 ± 0.85 mm2 when small endobronchial ultrasonography with a guide sheath (EBUS-GS) was used, 2.16 ± 1.49 mm2 with large EBUS-GS, and 1.81 ± 0.75 mm2 with endobronchial biopsy (EBB). The proportion of samples with a tissue surface area of ≥1 mm2 was 48.8% for small EBUS-GS, 79.2% for large EBUS-GS, and 78.6% for EBB. Sixty-nine patients underwent ODxTT. The success rate of DNA sequencing was 84.1% and that of RNA sequencing was 92.7% over all patients. The success rate of DNA (RNA) sequencing was 57.1% (71.4%) for small EBUS-GS (n = 14), 93.4% (96.9%) for large EBUS-GS (n = 32), 62.5% (100%) for EBB (n = 8), and 100% (100%) for endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) (n = 15). Regardless of the device used, a tissue surface area of ≥ 1 mm2 is adequate for samples to be tested with NGS.

scholarly journals Star Trek : paradigme juridique et laboratoire du droit

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 613-635
Author(s):  
Fabrice Defferrard
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Star Trek

Star Trek est un univers de science-fiction paradigmatique pour le droit. Il repose pour l’essentiel sur une architecture juridique et judiciaire complexe, inspirée d’un modèle universaliste mettant en valeur les libertés publiques, les droits fondamentaux et une justice équitable. Chargés d’explorer pacifiquement l’espace, les officiers de Starfleet nouent des liens de droit et résolvent des conflits de normes dans des situations parfois inédites qui font de cette divertissante saga un véritable laboratoire du droit.

Fighting for the Future

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Moment

The first two seasons of the television series Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek’s well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences’ changed viewing habits in the streaming age – and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the franchise’s megatext. This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.

Joanna Russ and the New Wave

Joanna Russ ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Joanna Russ ◽  
Modernist Novel ◽  
The 1960S

“Experiment and Experience” covers Joanna’s first years as a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, under the editorship of Judith Merril, and her first post as a university teacher at Cornell, and discusses modernism in sf, Joanna’s role as interpreter of the British “New Worlds” writers and the American New Wave and her response to the protest movements and cultural revolutions of the 1960s (in the psychedelic “Modernist novel by a Star Trek fan”) And Chaos Died. Essays and stories (1968-1971) examined include the important “The Wearing Out of Genre Materials,” and autobiographical short fictions that foreshadow The Female Man and illuminate And Chaos Died.

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