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Chess, Chance And Conspiracy, Mark Segal Dec 2006

Chess, Chance And Conspiracy, Mark Segal

Mark R Segal

Chess and chance are seemingly strange bedfellows. Luck and/or randomness have no apparent role in move selection when the game is played at the highest levels. However, when competition is at the ultimate level, that of the World Chess Championship (WCC), chess and conspiracy are not strange bedfellows, there being a long and colorful history of accusations levied between participants. One such accusation, frequently repeated, was that all the games in the 1985 WCC (Karpov vs Kasparov) were fixed and prearranged move by move. That this claim was advanced by a former World Champion, Bobby Fischer, argues that it ought …


The Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus: From Exploration To Exploitation, Stan J.J. Brouns, Thijs J.G. Ettema, Kenneth M. Stedman, Jasper Walther, Hauke Smith, Ambrosius P.L. Snijders, Mark Young, Rolf Bernander, Phillip C. Wright, Betina Siebers, John Van Der Oost Oct 2003

The Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus: From Exploration To Exploitation, Stan J.J. Brouns, Thijs J.G. Ettema, Kenneth M. Stedman, Jasper Walther, Hauke Smith, Ambrosius P.L. Snijders, Mark Young, Rolf Bernander, Phillip C. Wright, Betina Siebers, John Van Der Oost

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In the early 1970s, Sulfolobus was first isolated by Thomas Brock and co-workers from sulfur-rich acidic hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. Sulfolobus became one of the model organisms of Archaea in general, and of Crenarchaea in particular. Many of its unusual physiological characteristics have been investigated, and several of its thermostable enzymes have been studied in considerable detail. For fundamental reasons, and because of its potential for industrial applications, Sulfolobus has been selected for a genome sequence project. The recent completion of the Sulfolobus solfataricus genome has set the stage for a series of postgenome research lines that will …