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During translation ribosomes decode the genetic information present in the mRNA and protein synthesis takes place. During this process which of those two does move, the ribosome or the mRNA?
Here's an example in which the ribosome is fixed:
During co-translational translocation, the ribosome is essentially anchored onto the ER membrane through the Sec61 complex. It certainly cannot move along the mRNA. The mRNA is fed through the ribosome and the nascent peptide traverses into the ER lumen.
Movement is relative. The real events happening in translation are the conformational changes of ribosome makes itself continuous reading the base sequentially. Please refer the biochemistry textbook or cell biology textbook.
Indeed, if the ribosome is anchored, you may say the mRNA is moving.
The ribosome moves relative to the mRNA by, in effect, pulling itself along it. If both the ribosome and the mRNA are freely floating and not attached to anything else (as in jp89's answer), the relative amount of movement should depend on their relative masses.
(Actually, it also depends on how much drag each of them experiences with respect to the surrounding liquid medium, but since I have no idea how much that is, and since it's probably highly conformation-dependent anyway, I'm going to just ignore that and just assume that the drag is also more or less proportional to mass, at least to first order.)
As it happens, a quick Google search and some back of the envelope calculation suggests that the mass of a ribosome and the average mass of an mRNA are both around a megadalton. Of course, the length (and thus the mass) of an mRNA varies quite a lot, so it would seem likely that sometimes it's the ribosome that moves mostly, sometimes it's the mRNA, and sometimes it's both.
Also, as shigeta and others have pointed out, there can be more than one ribosome attached to the same mRNA strand. That's going to make the mRNA move more (and, correspondingly, the ribosomes move less), since there are more ribosomes pulling it along. Then there's also the protein being transcribed, which is attached to the ribosome but also being moved with respect to it. And I really have no idea how negligible the interactions with the tRNAs and so on are. It's a mess, but my guess would be that, usually, it's mostly the mRNA that moves, but that the ribosomes aren't completely stationary either (unless they're attached to something, of course).
Ps. Here's an exercise for you, which you may try out if you happen to have a friend who works at a public swimming pool. Otherwise consider it a gedankenexperiment. You know those floating ropes that separate the lanes in the pool? Try getting your friend to let you into the pool when it's not in use and to release one of the ropes from the walls. Then get in, grab the rope with your arms and legs and try pulling yourself along it. While doing so, try to decide whether it's you or the rope who moves more. (Also, to more closely approximate the Reynolds numbers involved inside a cell, imagine doing this in treacle instead of water.)
The mRNA moves during translation. It is essentially threaded through the ribosome. This has been known ever since polyribosomes were discovered; see paper here. Polyribosomes are a cluster of ribosomes that read a series of mRNA molecules. Often, the ribosomes in a polyribosome will be translating the same mRNA.


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What are some solutions/remedies for a cat that pulls out her own hair?
I have a non-purebreed blue-point Siamese that is pulling out her own hair on her back and front paws. While the vet said because she's not hurting herself (other than creating some nice bald spots) I shouldn't worry about it, I am bothered by the fact that it appears she's getting worse! Ever since my one cat became sick and died (at the super young age of 8 and a half), she's been making her bald spot larger and larger! The other two cats are fine, and she's the youngest and bossiest in the bunch.
I'm trying to avoid putting her on meds (they were going to prescribe buspar, but I can't justify drugging the cat every day).
I was thinking of trying some kind of bitter spray, or just something else in that area that will discourage her from puling her hair out, but I'm afraid that she'll never groom herself after that.
I also tried putting a shirt on her, but she's super clever and knows how to pull them off.
Any ideas, experiences good or bad to help me out with this?
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It sounds like she's grieving. My cat expert recommends adding another cat, and lots of positive attention.
Is she spayed? Our female cat had the same problem up until she was spayed. Immediately after the procedure, it stopped.
Either way, it sounds like in my case and yours, the issue is anxiety. So anything that would reduce her stress levels might help.
My boss had a crazy cat who chewed his belly bald. Their vet did every test (at no small expense) before becoming so frustrated / intrigued that she offered to continue testing for free. They did everything they could think of until they finally tried a quarter pill of prozac a day. The problem stopped immediately. Turned out the cat was a little crazy, and the meds fixed the issue. The generic for it was cheap, so they still give him a little prozac every day. He hasn't had the issue since, and the vet wrote a paper for a medical journal on it.
Now somebody say "cool story bro"
My cat is also a non-purebreed Siamese, and she will lick at different spots on her fur, to the point where the fur falls out, when she is stressed and unhappy. Once I figure out what is stressing her, she stops the obsessive licking. (On a side not, Siamese cats are known for being a little psychotic/obsessive)
So, try to be Sherlock Holmes and see if anything is really bothering her around your house- maybe you don't have a window open that you left open in the summer, or something else as seemingly innocuous as that. Best of luck!
Definitely seems like a stress issue. Buspar or prozac are options, but it might be worth trying Feliway, since it can be calming to many cats as well. It bothers me that the vet basically said it wasn't a problem. This isn't normal/healthy cat behavior, so there should be a little more concern on the vet's part as to something needing changed.
The problem with just putting a bitter spray to discourage her from licking is that it will stop the obvious issue but is ignoring the underlying cause-- the stress. It might just start to manifest in other ways and isn't treating the actual problem.
I'm going to agree with everyone else and say that it is most likely stress. Our cat had a similar problem a few months ago. A change in our daily routine threw her off and she started pulling out the hair at the base of her tail. Giving her lots of extra attention seemed to help and after a week or 2 she got used to the new routine and calmed down and left the hair alone. Your cat might just need time and comfort since she is missing her friend. Personally I would give her time and attention before turning to drugs.
@jezebelseven: I forgot to mention what Feliway was, in case it wasn't clear-- It's not a drug, it's a diffuser (or spray, but for stress, I believe the wall diffuser is the preferred method) with a mimicking of cat's pheromone. We've used it with varying degrees of success. The first time we had some cat issues it didn't work so well, so we were hesitant to try it again, but we used it again a couple weeks ago, as we were moving to a new place with our 3 cats, and it's made them handle the move much, much better than expected. They've been calm the whole time... even when they were cooped up in a room together for a couple days (as one cat hates the other two so we were expecting catfights and fireworks all night).
More info: http://www.feliway.com/us/Cats-and-Stress/Cat-Stress
(I bought mine through Amazon as it was much cheaper there than at my vet's, even with the rebate on their website.)
Yes, she is spayed.
She has been pulling out her hair the majority of her life, she started by obsessively grooming her front paws and her rear-end. She's 5 and a half now, and has been pulling out her hair since she was just over a year and a half.
When I first brought her in, they said to try Buspar, which I was hesitant to do, I realize she is a Siamese breed and they can be neurotic or high-maintenance, I expected some craziness when I took her home, I didn't expect the obsessive hair pulling though! What the vet has said that since I didn't want to put her on Buspar was that since she is not hurting herself (ie, making herself bleed), it's just something she's going to do. She said the same thing, Siamese are neurotic sometimes, and this habit is similar to a person biting their nails.
It's just that it's gotten so much worse that has me concerned. I'll try the Feliway, at this point, it's worth a shot. More suggestions still welcome!
This type of problem is a veterinary nightmare becuase it is very difficult to hit upon a treatment regimen that actually satisfies the client. "Stress" is both a likely culprit and a throw-away term that defies pinning down. First, accept that your cat is crazy. Second, make sure it is flea free (it probably is, but make sure). Next, try the various remedies. I have had success (and not) with corticosteroids, megestrol acetate, prozac, amitriptyline, valium, feliway, and combinations and derivatives of them. One client successfully cured her cat of its psychotic behavior by having an animal psychic have a chat with the animal (Honest, she swears it worked, and the cat is doing better and drug free). The one thing I would be skeptical of trying would be getting another animal. Cats are solitary and anti-social. Other than lions, cats in the wild only get together to breed and kill each other. In most cases, bringing in another critter is more likely to cause the problem than cure it.
@nortonsark: Oh, I know she is crazy!
She is the youngest of what was four cats. The cat that died was one that she also 'beat up', but then she would groom him like it was her baby (go figure). Since he died, she's been acting nuttier. Now (as of 10pm eastern last night), she's also getting more aggressive towards my oldest cat.
The other cats are a 11 year old brown tabby that has a problem with getting crystals in his urine and is on a special diet, and a black cat that is exceptionally laid back (she almost always gets along with him, they even sleep together in a cuddlepile under my blankets.)
I'm going to try the feliway first, and if that doesn't work, I'm going to have the vet write her a script. I'm not so sure about the psychic, but maybe if I get desperate enough!
Thanks for stopping in and giving me some advice though, I'm actually getting concerned about her! I don't want to have to give her up either, so, I'm going to get to trying these solutions soon!
One more thing I forgot to add - I know you said that she takes off shirts, but the dog version of this worked well for my parent's dog with anxiety: http://www.thundershirtforcats.com/
My bengal cat did this off and on for years. Her obsessive grooming was stress related as well. We fought it with a combination of figuring out what was stressing her out and changing it as well as using the feliway diffuser on a regular basis.
I hope you can find a good solution that works for you; I know how frustrating it is to know there's something wrong with your kitty but you don't know how to fix it. :(
Catnip 24-7! Seriously, I would pay heed to nortonsark who, as I'm sure you know, is a vet. Good luck!
Yes, I did know that nortonstark is a vet, and I value his advice! In fact, I was hoping to see his reply in this question eventually, and so glad he did! So, thanks @nortonstark!!
I just bought a feliway at my vet today (I wanted to start it ASAP, and I already had to pick up the special diet for my tabby, so killed two birds with one stone~so to speak, lol!).
I'm going to look into the thundershirt for cats next, even if it's only on the days she seems most stressed.
Ah, catnip, I can't even begin to tell you how many catnip toys these little munchins have! They have access to those 24/7, and maybe that's part of the problem, lol!
I remember buying her special toys for 'teething' and 'mouthy' cats a while back, but they seem to be MIA (she hid them very well!), so I may buy her these again too, not sure how much they help, but, it puts something else in her mouth besides herself!
@baybei: good luck!
I have a multiple cat & dog household, there is occasional fighting among the cats so feliway is always plugged in - works good on common issues. last year my youngest cat (8) began licking to the point he had no hair on his stomach, was constantly aggressive to my oldest cat (17), & the ones in the middle would attack him to protect the oldest. feliway was not effective at all. after trying some things, my vet prescribed buspar. within a few days he was a totally different cat. the aggression ceased, the licking stopped, he was relaxed, & not on attack mode all the time, he was more sociable, and really seemed happier. no side effects & he doesn't act like he is drugged. if this is what your vet recommends, I wouldn't hesitate to try it. really made a difference to him and to how the other cats respond to him.
@kaiserlucifer: ooh, I didn't know they made that for cats. My non-purebreed siamese is super scared of the outside and loud noises. But that doesn't stop him from thinking he wants to go outside. And so now I put him in a harness (which is full netting across almost the entire body, almost like a thundershirt but not quite as much fabric) and it seems to make him think he is SuperCat when he occasionally gets to go for a walk out on the porch or in the back yard. I'm betting he would really like a thundershirt.
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As a GM, what kind of techniques could I use to help a player re-join the gaming session after their character dies? I want to avoid any major interruptions to the flow of the adventure. I would also like to avoid having to end the session immediately or making them sit on the side-lines for the rest of the session.
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Here are some suggestions that we have tried for our 4e game. It does not come up much as we do not have a high mortality campaign thus far.
I'm sure there are plenty of better solutions, but these are some I've tried or seen floated pretty regularly.
This varies somewhat by the tone of your campaign and the system/setting.
In some systems/settings, resurrections are relatively easy. In that case, the obvious answer is to perform the resurrection with some sort of minor penalty and then go on. This, though, cheapens character death. In a mostly hack 'n slash, lighthearted game, this is perfectly fine and essentially replicates the feeling of most videogames (you died, now you loose a little bit of progress and get to try again). In a more serious game with a deep story, knowing death is cheap can affect the story (sacraficing your life means a lot less if that life comes back at the price of a little gold and XP or whatever) and knowing it is not just available but cheap will definitely affect the way the characters play. It will make them more likely to take large risks. (again whether that is good or bad depends on what you are going for).
An alternative, again available in some but not all settings is that they come back as a ghost or other undead form. This was interesting in some oWoD games I played, but probably does not work well in say DnD. You have to be in a setting that supports that and it would have to be such that a ghost could integrate without messing up the story, or this becomes a very bad option.
The next option of course is to have backups standing by. This could mean having a new character already generated, or having the player make one quickly while everyone else continues on and then integrating them as soon as ready. This works well in games where character creation is fairly quick, but less well when it takes a while, and it is complicated if the players are expected to make up an elaborate backstory for their character. One way to simplify this, though one that is rarely satisfying, is to let them bring back a variant of their old character. Tweak the name, maybe reassign a skill or two, and tweak the backstory a bit, but basically let them reuse the character that died.
Finally, use deus ex machina to prevent the death. Personally, I hate this option. It seems to cheapen death even more than resurrection, and basically changes what just happened. But as long as it is not overused, it can be a way of saving a character that someone put a lot of time and effort into developping, with a long backstory even in settings where resurrection is just not an option.
The option that worked better for me (especially during a spell when I made my adventures quite hard and therefore I "killed" characters quite often...) was having each player use and develop a number of different characters at the same time.
If one dies and can't be resurrected, you have the replacement ready...
PS the players understood quite quickly the situation (i.e. if you're not careful, your character will die easily) and in general enjoyed the challenge of really risking losing the character almost at every turn and of developing a fairly broad number of different characters.
I tend to bring in new PCs who had some sort of relationship with the recently deceased PC. The nature of the relationship will vary, but it has to be strong enough that the new PC has a reason to show up hot on the heels of the death of the old PC. A few highly situation-dependent variations on this theme:
One good thing about establishing a relationship between the new and old PCs is that it provides a feeling of story continuity and doesn't feel quite as forced as if the new PC came in from completely out of the blue.
These are some of the things I have done in the past.
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As far as in-game hooking goes:
There is a lot of technics described above, but are you really sure you want to put a player back in fast? I'd like to mention this once more, because it looks very important to me: easy resurrection might damage role-playing.
In my opinion, quick resurrection (by magic, backup characters, deus ex machina) is appropriate only if the PC have died because of a GM mistake (like, choosing too hard monsters and closing the only door) or a very unfortunate coincidence (maybe caused by an unforseen game system pecularity).
Otherwise, being a player I would find it very fair to have episodic NPC roles for quite a long time, before a character gets resurrected (i.e. after the party works hard to earn a huge sum of money to pay for the spell) or remastered. Gandalf's resurrection in LOTR is a masterpiece. And if it was a game, Gandalf's player could play a not so importrant and detailed, but a somewhat lasting character (Eomer comes to my mind). And, well, you can kill the latter or leave him behind (injured or in love) to resurrect the main character of the player.


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1968 Plymouth Valiant 427 Engine Swap - Project 7.0: Engine Completion And Dyno TestingWritten by on April 29, 2011 Our 427-inch small-block makes Viper-sized power
Our buddy's '68 Valiant track car had the need for some more speed so we decided to step him up with a 427-inch small-block. Our goal was a 500/500 engine, that is 500 lb-ft of torque and 500 horsepower. We went with a lot of cubic inches because we're looking for a big fat torque curve, which will work on the street as well as at the track. The short-block construction was covered in detail in the October 2010 issue of Mopar Muscle. This month we finish up the top of the motor and get it installed.
The Short-block
Our Mopar Performance P5007552AB engine block was bored to 4.060 inches by Gray's Automotive and then filled with a 4.125-inch stroke crankshaft from K1 Technologies. The connecting rods, also from K1, are 6.200 inches long, with a small-journal2.00 inches. The pistons are forged units from JE with deep dishes to keep the compression down to a pump-gas friendly 10.5:1. The bob-weight for this rotating assembly was only 1,780 grams, so we figured the engine was going to spin the needle on the tach just fine. The October issue went into detail on a number of little problems that we encountered, so keep that article on hand if you're planning to build one of these engines.
Cylinder Heads
With 427 inches to feed, and a goal of 500 horsepower, we knew that we needed a set of cylinder heads with good airflow. We wanted aluminum heads in order to save 50 pounds of weight up front, but our budget ruled out the more exotic W-series cylinder heads. In the end, we picked a set of closed-chamber Performer RPM cylinder heads from Edelbrock. The Edelbrock heads are a replacement type cylinder head with stock port locations. These heads use standard 59-degree valvetrain components to keep the cost down. The use of standard valvetrain parts does limit the size of valvespring that fits, but we didn't anticipate a lot of valve lift for our application so that was OK.
In order to meet our power goals we did need to have the heads fully ported. After some research into the subject, we decided to go with the Stage III porting from Hughes Engines. The Stage III option is a full CNC porting package, which also includes new 2.080-inch intake valves. The guys at Hughes went through our heads completely, machining the ports and combustion chambers and then surfacing the heads. They also performed a high-quality valve job and pressure tested the heads after the CNC machine work was complete. Peak flow numbers for the Stage III package are right at 300 cfm on the intake and 200 cfm on the exhaust. Numbers like that are more than enough flow capacity to achieve our power goal of 500/500 so we felt confident of our target. We didn't flow these heads ourselves after porting, but flow sheets for the Stage III porting service are available on the Hughes Engines website.
As discussed in the October article, our original plan was to go with a hydraulic roller camshaft. We wanted to go this way to reduce the maintenance level and to keep things nice and quiet on the street. However, we could not find a set of hydraulic roller lifters that would fit the R3 engine block so we had to switch to solid roller lifters. We decided to keep our hydraulic roller camshaft after the engineers at Comp Cams told us that we could run solid roller lifters on it if the lash was set really tight. The camshaft that Comp specified for us is a custom grind using their new XFI lobes. The grind number is CRS 3017B/3037B HR113. Duration at .050-inch is 236 on both the intake and exhaust, while lobe lift is .363 intake and .358 exhaust. The camshaft is mild for 427 inches, but once again, we were looking for a Viper type power curve with the torque peak around 4,000 rpm.
The rest of the valvetrain consists of Comp's solid roller lifters, Smith Brothers pushrods, and Comp's beehive valvesprings. We have been using the beehive valvesprings on virtually every engine that we build with excellent results. The springs we selected have a short enough installed height to fit the Edelbrock heads, but they still have enough pressure to work with the solid-roller lifters. We test fitted three different rocker arm designs before deciding to go with the 1.50 ratio units from Comp Cams.
The Valiant that the engine is going into uses a flat hood with no scoop so our options were limited in terms of intakes that will fit. The 360 engine previously in the car had used a Performer RPM Airgap intake, but with the larger 427 engine we felt it was time to move to a single plane. Of the several choices available, we felt the Victor 340 would best fit the needs of this motor. The plenum and runners in the Victor 340 are a little on the small side for a 427-inch engine, so we sent the intake to the small-block experts at Shady Dell Speed Shop. Ryan at SDSS hand ported our intake and performed some blending work in the plenum area.
Our carburetor choice of a 650 Double Pumper might seem a little small to people used to big drag racing engines, but this engine is going into a track car with 2.94 rear end gears. The NASCAR guys make a lot of power with a 750 main body, so using a 650 main body on our engine didn't seem out of line to us. We went to Bo Laws (BLP) because they are one of the premier carb builders in the country with expertise in the area of circle track and road racing. BLP built us one of their Weekend Warrior carbs with special road race floats and fully adjustable billet metering plates.
Dyno Testing
We were able to get the engine onto the dyno at Gray's Automotive for a few pulls before installing it in the car. We always prefer to dyno test an engine whenever possible just to get a baseline on the tune-up as well as to see what the power band looks like. Our headers, oil pan, and water pump were different for the dyno testing than what we ended up using in the car, but the power differences should be minor. We were able to make a number of dyno pulls during our session and only had to make some minor adjustments to jetting and to the ignition. The MSD E-Curve distributor is great to work with on the dyno as it allows us to change the ignition curve by turning a dial. We started off with the distributor locked with 35 degrees of advance, and then tried a few different curves to see how the engine responded. The BLP carb was dialed in very well right out of the box so all we needed was one jet change to get the A/F ratio where we wanted it. Our best pull of the day showed 519 horsepower at 5,800 rpm and 506 lb/ft of torque at 4,100 rpm. We were looking for a 500/500 engine and we exceeded that goal with a little to spare.
Throughout the project we've been using the third generation Viper as a benchmark. Those Viper engines were 505 cubic inches and they were rated at 500 horsepower at 5,600 rpm and 525 lb/ft at 4,200 rpm. Given that, the power output of this 427 is right in line with the published Viper numbers. Published numbers don't always line up with reality, so we are planning to get the Valiant onto a chassis dyno with a Viper in the near future so we can compare the two cars on the same dyno. This Valiant weighs 3,150 pounds ready to race, which is about 200 pounds lighter than a third-gen Viper, so the power to weight ratio is going to slightly favor the Valiant.
Install and First Impressions
Once the dyno testing was complete we moved forward with some necessary upgrades to the drivetrain including a new clutch, a rebuilt transmission, and a new aluminum driveshaft. In anticipation of the 150-mph top speed, we installed a 13-inch disc brake kit from Baer with six piston calipers as well as a rear disc brake kit from Doctor Diff. With the chassis upgrades complete, the car was sent out the door for some quick shakedown runs around town.
The engine idles smoothly at 900 rpm due to the low overlap camshaft and the small carburetor, but the airflow capacity of the heads and intake allows it to pull hard past 6,000 rpm. Even with 2.94 gears in the rear, the car went sideways anytime we stomped on the gas. After a few break-in miles on the street, the car headed out to Portland International for a track day. We had a few teething problems at the track with the oiling system so the session ended early, but in the few laps that Tim was out there, he was able to push the car up to about 150 mph on the back straight. The engine was making enough power to push the car hard down the straights, and the brakes were good enough that he could delay his braking points a little further than last season.
Next steps now are to refine the oiling system and to tune the chassis a bit more. This drivetrain with the aluminum heads, lightweight clutch, and aluminum transmission is about 100 pounds lighter than the previous drivetrain. Taking 100 pounds off the nose of the car means that the suspension needs to be tweaked a bit to get the car back into balance. We already have a bunch more parts on order so stay tuned for an update in an upcoming issue. mm
About the Author: Andy Finkbeiner is the author of How to Build Max-Performance Mopar Big Blocks published by CarTech. Andy also owns AR Engineering, a company that specializes in designing and manufacturing parts for Mopar muscle cars.
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...The intake ports are opened up as far as possible with the Hughes Stage III porting. Intake flow improved from 250 cfm to 300 cfm with the larger intake valves and port work.We used Cometic MLS head gasket number C5456-040 with a 4.180-inch bore size. The large bore size in the gasket was necessary to clear the CNC-machined combustion chambers.The Comp Cams small-block hydraulic roller camshafts are compatible with the special iron gear used in the Mopar Performance P3690715 oil pump driveshaft. A solid roller cam would have required a bronze gear.Valvetrain components include 26056-16 beehive springs, 8043-16 roller lifters, and 1322-16 rocker arms. All of these parts are from Comp Cams. The 3⁄8 diameter pushrods with ball-ball ends are from Smith Bros.We had the opportunity to test fit three different rocker arm assemblies on this engine. The polished rocker arms at the top of the picture are 1.50 ratio units from PRW. In the middle are 1.60 ratio rocker arms from RAS while the Comp 1.50 ratio arms are at the bottom.The Comp rocker arms provided .523 lift for a measured ratio of 1.47:1. The Comp rocker arms use a ball-ball pushrod.The RAS rocker arms had total lift of .541 for an actual ratio of 1.51. These rocker arms use the more traditional ball-cup pushrod. We wanted to run these rocker arms on the dyno to see if they would make more power, but the guy we borrowed them from needed them back for his own project.The PRW rocker arms generated .514 lift for an actual ratio of 1.44. The PRW rocker arms have a bronze bushing in them and come complete with heavy-duty hold-downs. These rocker arms are an excellent value for a street/strip motor.
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I have been studying number theory for a little while now, and I would like to learn about integer partitions and q series, but I have never studied anything in the field of combinatorics, so are there any prerequisites or things I should be familiar with before I try to study the latter?
George Andrews has contributed greatly to the study of integer partitions. (The link with his name will take you to his webpage listing publications, some of which are accessible as pdf documents.) Also see, e.g., his classic text The Theory of Partitions and the more recent Integer Partitions.
You can pretty much "jump right in" with the following, though their breadth of coverage may be more than you care to explore (in which case, they each have fine sections on the topics of interest to you, with ample references for more in depth study of each topic):
Two books I highly recommend are
Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik.
Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, and Algorithms by Peter J. Cameron. See his associated site for the text.
George Andrews and Kimmo Eriksson, Integer Partitions, is a very nice book about the topics you want to learn about. It says it requires nothing more of the reader "than some familiarity with polynomials and infinite series".
You should look into "Additive combinatorics" by Terence Tao. It establishes the connection between the two.
For a more difficult introduction to some of the real magic of $q$-series, try "Number Theory in the Spirit of Ramanujan" by Bruce C. Berndt.
Even if you don't understand the proofs (my condition for much of it), the theorems are amazing.
Fortunately a first look at combinatorics doesn't require very many prerequisites past high school mathematics. But generating functions are really cool, so if you know your power series from single-variable calculus that's great. Elementary linear algebra could also be useful.
If you'd like to go much deeper into combinatorics, like algebraic combinatorics or such, then you could go into abstract algebra and analysis as well. It's also nice to do graph theory alongside combinatorics (if you distinguish them at all).
I don't know much in the way of combinatorics resources, but if you end up liking generating functions then H. Wilf has made his book Generatingfunctionology available for free online. By all accounts it is one of the best written resources on the topic.
I recently came across the book How to count: An introduction to Combinatorics. It is an excellent book to learn combinatorics through self study from scratch. It has lots of solved problems and applications discussed in a very nice manner. Plus it has two chapters on partitions so that you can get an introduction to partition theory too. You can then move on to George Andrews.
Other than Berndt's excellent book mentioned by marty cohen there is a book on $q$-series by Chan called An Invitation to Q-Series: From Jacobi's Triple Product Identity to Ramanujan's "Most Beautiful Identity". I haven't had the opportunity to study it yet, but it looks nice!


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I was wondering if anyone have found a base value of magic find that works better on inferno.
I heard that 75% individually would be a good amount.
I was wondering if anyone have found a base value of magic find that works better on inferno.
I heard that 75% individually would be a good amount.
Magic Find % multiplies the chance on the item. If an item in norm has a .0005% chance to drop, and you have 100% MF then the item now has a .0010% chance to drop. It's the same in inferno. In inferno and all difficulties, the items are just more and more rare. So you may find it harder to get items, but it's not because the individuals MF drops with difficulty, it's just items are more rare to compensate with higher level MF ratings. To answer your question. The more the better, there's no real base amount that would be sufficient.
Any amount makes a difference, but unless you're quickly killing packs of elites, you should work on your core stat, vitality, weapon damage and attack speed.
The Nephalem's Valor buff at 5 stacks gives %15 magic and gold find per stack, and persists through death. If you're comfortable being able to quickly kill the majority of elites to get 5 stacks, then by all means add magic find. Any small amount makes a difference.
I have 5 stacks in Inferno right now - it's %15 per stack, at least in Inferno.
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SenchaTouch Formfield DatePicker cyclic feature like ios native style date picker
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I just purchased one pound of swordfish filet and never cooked swordfish before and have minimal experience cooking fish. Any suggestions on preparation? Also what should I look for while cooking it?
I love swordfish grilled with a little olive oil and Montreal steak spice. All the firm fish are great on the grill.
Firm fish like ahi tuna and swordfish can pretty much be treated like really good steak, just cook them carefully because you want them left on the very-rare side of things.
If you do it in a pan make sure there's hot oil or butter (or both) before you add the fish and don't move it around too much. If you fuss too much with the fish it will fall apart.
As delicious as swordfish is a lot of the fish on the market isn't being sustainably caught. Make sure to ask where its coming from. Most of the US and Canada fisheries are pretty good.
Olive oil, salt and pepper and grilled (on a flame broiler or outside Bar-B-Que) to perfection. Then, when done, squeeze some lemon (or, in my case, lime) on top and enjoy... Most fishes, I think, taste best with the simple additions, but others will disagree because it's a matter of taste. One spice mix, therefore, I personally love on any fish, including sword fish is a nice mix I got on Orcas island: chipotle, ancho, cumin, some green herbs (dried) and salt and pepper...
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5770 and 13,000,000,000 is a big difference!
I am looking for a good explanation to the difference opinion of the age of the universe. Please help me out!
As an observant astrophysicist (pun intended; I'm actually a theorist), I get this question a lot. Personally, most answers I have heard seem rather contrived and do little justice to either the science or the Torah. The study of physics and the study of Torah are both wonderful pursuits of a "higher truth," but they consist of very different methods and really speak different languages. I am highly skeptical of any that claim proof of a theory in one field based on evidence from the other.
But to answer your question more directly, I view the issue as a classic example of the Torah "speaking in the language of man," a concept found throughout Rabbinic literature. We know the Torah was given to a rag-tag collection of ignorant slaves less than two months after fleeing for their lives, and having only the simplest knowledge of their own history, much less "science." How should the Torah begin? "In the beginning, 13.7 billion years ago, the scalar inflation field expanded by 47 orders of magnitude, then began cooling adiabatically into a quark-gluon plasma"?? Even to the most secular scholar, the Torah is a brilliant study in human nature and emotion. To understand it, we must read it in its own language, not ours. As many medieval commentators point out, the purpose of Genesis is to teach us moral lessons, and at most, political history, not science.
The Seder Olam Rabbah added up all of the generations in the Torah and those in the rest of Biblical history to determine how many years had passed since the Creation of Adam. By that reckoning, 5770 years have now elapsed since that Creation. Genesis 1 describes Six Days between the initial Creation of "the Heavens and the Earth" and the Creation of Adam. If you add six days to 5770 years, you get an elapsed time from the Creation of the Universe to now of 5770 years.
Many different and unrelated scientific inquiries have produced evidence consistent with the Earth and the Universe being orders of magnitude older than 5770 years. In The Challenge of Creation, Chapter Nine: "Evidence for an Ancient Universe," R' Natan Slifkin accessibly summarizes some of the these methods, including analysis of fossils, tree rings, and geological features.
To your point, he describes the evidence for a Universe age on the order of 10 billion years that comes from telescope observations of galaxies that are 10 billion light-years away. The presence of light from a source that far away implies that the light had been travelling for 10 billion years before it reached us, which implies that the galaxy it came from and the Universe containing it are at least that old.
A great deal of ink has been spilled trying to deal with this apparent disagreement between Scriptural and scientific evidence. The following few chapters of The Challenge of Creation describe a number of approaches to this issue as well as the author's approach.
When science says "the world is 13,000,000,000 years old", they are not saying "I was there. I have a video. I KNOW". They say "based on the evidence that I have, and based on the laws of nature that I observe, the world could have been created like this.
Or maybe not. Maybe there are other scientific laws involved that we just don't know about. We don't know everything yet, and it's possible all of our theories wouldn't work under different conditions. Remember, in the Rambam's time, everyone was convinced that the science of his day was absolutely true, to the extent that we had to "show" how we agree to science.
Or one can add, even if you say that from the Big Bang on everything was natural, the original yesh mi-ayin, the something from nothing, must have been supernatural. If creation is supernatural, there is no reason to stop the supernatural involment by the Big Bang, why not extend it to the end of creation. It says that when Hashem created the world, it was created fully formed. Meaning, Adam was an adult. If he would come to a doctor and ask "how old am I?" the doctor would say "middle aged". Was he or not?
In other words, it's not a scientific question, as it deals with "did Hashem perform this miracle or that miracle".
Many would answer: "Ahh... But it's a much smaller miracle for Hashem to create a "Big Bang" than create a world. Why make miracles bigger than they are?"
The answer to that this is not a scientific argument. Why Hashem makes a bigger miracle instead of a smaller isn't a scientific question. Maybe philosophical, but not scientific.
So in the end, there is no scientific evidence of the age of the universe. Philosophically one may find it hard to believe why Hashem would create the world looking old, but there are no questions based on science.
There are a number of answers to this question:
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan has shown that the tradition of the age of the world is not a simple subject.
Let's stick to Jewish sources only and ignore any other source.
We have two dating systems.
Now, according to the gemorah, option 1 will not tell us the age of the world. It will only tell how long humanity as descendand from Adam has been around. The gemorah tells us that we can not know or study what came before, what is above, what is below, and what will come in the future. As far back as we can know, is how long we as people knowing Gd have been around, and that is all we are allowed to know.
However, the gemorah says that some people, teacher to student can teach each other otherwise, and we have many cryptic statements in the Gemorah regarding the age of the world. One such statement is that the world was created 974 generation before the giving of the Torah. (Or 947 generations before Adam was created) Depending on if you use a generation as defined between Adam and Noach, or between Noach's son's and Avraham, or between Avraham and Moshe, you will get a different calculation on how many years the world existed before Adam. (anywhere from 18,940 years to 177,089 years)
According to another view of the Kabbalists and Ramban:
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan expounds this further based on the writings of Rabbi Isaac of Acco.
The concept of the world being some 6,000 years old comes from Christianity, and Priests. These sentiments, for some reason unknown by anybody, have been adopted by modern day Charedim as the 'Torah True' view... despite the fact that nobody has ever suggested that the world is only 6,000 years old until some Christian priest decided to make that claim despite the scientific findings of Darwin and early Paelontology. The Tiferes Yisroel wrote:
In 1857 Philip Henry Gosse (A Non Jew who had no Jewish sources) was the first person to ever suggest that the world was close to 6,000 years old! He made this suggestion in his book Omphalos: an Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot. And now, that Christian book, is somehow touted as 'Torah!' You'd have to ignore at least 6 Gemoras, half the rishonim, a few achronim and your own eyes to say the world is less than 10,000 years old!
To summarize: A debate exists regarding the age of the world, because it is something which we can not know, and are instructed that it is not worth knowing. Despite this, we have many different Agadatas which give us a large variety of options for the age of the world. On top of that, we have a strong influence from Christian scholars convincing certain sects of Judaism, that a literal reading of both Seder Olam and the chumash is the only true answer to the question (despite the Torah Sh'baal peh which tells us otherwise!)
I highly recommend a talk delivered by Gerald Schroeder on this very topic (and also other topics of this ilk). You can find it at aish.com.
The lubovitcher rebbe would answer people when they would ask this question 1) science is constantly changing and what they say now may be disproven in 5 years from now so don't be so sure. But more importantly 2) Hashem created an "old world" trees fully formed, fossils already fossilized, Adam as an adult. So Hashem created the world as if it was billions of years old
God told us in the torah He would send us false prophets performing signs and wonders telling us to leave the torah.
In Deut.13:
So one could say perhaps the scientific evidence pointing to the torah's account as being false is simply a test. God already told us in the torah He would test us and He certainly has the ability to make the universe look older than it is. One who knows and believes the torah is true, will give its account more weight than the conclusions of scientists which is based on circumstancial evidence and naturalistic assumptions.
hence maybe the torah's account is literal and the universe is <6000 years old looking much older or maybe it is not literal and the universe is billions of years old. teyku.
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Morticia and Gomez adore this set for everyday use, although they do prefer lead crystal when serving guests for dinner.
The guests just taste better that way.
not for me. seeing the color of my wine is about as important as the bouquet and taste.
These are great for blind tastings. X-posting in the wine.woot forums.
Morticia and Gomez may love em, but they're no good when Cousin It is shedding.
@drgadget: Please, it is Itt with two 't's. You know how sensitive Itt is. And there must be some thing around to help with Itt's grooming.
@kylemittskus: I was in agreement with xochiluvr, but I hadn't thought about blind tastings. Does this mean I can dispense with the usual blindfolds?
@rpstrong: blindfolds are still fun. The reason these are so good for blind tastings, though, is that just like @charliecarroll says, people make assumptions about wine based upon the wine's color. With these, you can't see the color so the "blind" taste is that much more true.


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Growing up, I always regarded the start of a new school year as a tragedy of epic proportions. The reality, though I never would've admitted it, is that it was actually a little refreshing. After weeks of goofing around by Lake Michigan and making home videos in the basement, it was an interesting change of pace to be suddenly thrown back into a regimented schedule. Assignments with deadlines, new books to read, new teachers… It all amounted to a sort of challenge. Even if August and September won't be bringing you a new semester, I think the principle still applies to knitting:
Is there a technique you haven't tried yet? Check out our how-to videos for quick tutorials…
Is there a yarn you've got your eye on, but haven't tried knitting with?
Clockwise from top: Ultra Alpaca Tonal 6359 Frambuesa, Campus 2499 Honor Roll, Flicker 3334 Schwarzfels, Boboli 5310 Crumpets, Ultra Alpaca Tonal 6336 Arandano, Boboli 5333 Stroll.
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Lovely examples! Could you please tell me about the sweater/capelet (?) with the Rosina mittens? Thank you!August 23, 2011
I'm such a nerd – I always loved going back to school… but I never thought of challenging myself during the "back to school" season with my knitting. It would be the perfect time because the kids will be in school and I could actually concentrate without someone pulling on me or hollering my name a billion times in a row… oh wow – my nerd love for back to school is in high gear again – Thank you!!August 23, 2011
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I can almost picture you in class raising your hand at all the teacher's questions. Thanks for the great ideas. I am knitting and writing right now. It's how I multitask!August 23, 2011
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Over here in New Zealand, we are deep in our winter, and the kids are mid way through term 3 of the year. As I don't love getting wet from the falling rain, and besides its warmer inside. I have given my self a personal challenge. Socks. Might seem mundane, but it is something I have never done before, Just the thought of those DPN's sends (or used to) shivers down my spine. Not now I am loving knitting in the round and am on to my 4th pair of socks, I found a lovey lace pattern that I am going to try next for my daughter. One could say challenge accepted and completed. now what can I line up to do next…..August 29, 2011


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Recover 5 minutes between each compound set. 2 x 12min with 4 min recovery 2 x 5 min with 5 min recovery Marathon Training Plan Training schedule for runners who want to improve performance in the Marathon race distance. A few more point to remember during your training: Distance: The training schedule dictates workouts of varying distances or times. Don't worry about running precisely those distances or times, but you should come close. You can measure your course many different ways, including car, GPS, app, and many others. In deciding where to train, talk to other runners. They probably can point you to some accurately measured courses for your workouts. Rest: You can't train hard unless you are well-rested. The schedule includes rest days and easier runs scheduled throughout the program. These will help you rest for harder/longer workouts on other days. The final week before the race is a taper down week. Tapering helps you get ready for a peak performance on race day. 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Changes afoot in CHS coaching ranks
There are some coaching changes and openings announced in recent days at Colville High School. What has been common knowledge for quite sometime became official last week with the announcement by Colville High School Athletic Director (Student Programs' Director) Kelly Carr that Ray Clark and Al Bushnell will assume co-head coaching duties for the CHS girl's basketball program for the 2011-2012 season. Clark and Bushnell, who have coached the CHS varsity girl's program previously and have longtime coaching associations with the girl's basketball program in Colville, will be assisted by Clark's daughter, Kajsa Brons. Don Teeguarden, who stepped down last spring as CHS varsity girl's coach, will remain on staff and will coach the junior varsity, Carr said. Teeguarden also headed up the 2011 summer basketball program. "I feel fortunate to have four strong and experienced coaches to work with CHS basketball players for the upcoming season," Carr said. "They have been a part of CHS athletics for many years and bring to the program an understanding of what CHS athletics is all about. "Our current basketball players have all been coached by some or all of them at some point in their development, and are familiar with expectations this group of coaches will have of them." Carr also said that the CHS head baseball coaching position held by Mike Bestrom for the past three seasons is currently vacant. Bestrom led the Indians to an 18-8 record in 2011 and a State 1A regional berth. Carr said that CHS will be "advertising the (baseball) opening ASAP."


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