" In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.
... computing. Taking a similarly inspired approach in The Government Machine, Jon Agar gives an idea of how different that history looks for the development of computing in Britain. Agar looks back to the eighteenth century, when political ...
... agar gel. (a) Virgin oat flakes. (b) Oat flakes colonised by the plasmodium ... computing prototypes. Acellular slime mould P. polycephalum has quite ... computing schemes [42,8], and natural implementation of spatial logic and process ...
... agar images with an average of 0.53 mm while for the turkey breast phantom images the position error varied from 0.34 mm to 1.18 mm with an average of 0.69 mm. The segmentation angular deviation using our method varied from Dto D for the ...
... computation of the center of gravity of the agar nodule in both the planning CT and the control CT. (f) The motion simulator was used to simulate several breathing cycles (cranio-caudal displacement of the liver ≈ 15 mm [9]) reflecting ...
... agar followed by subculture onto mannitol salt agar ( both agars from Fisher Scientific , Pittsburgh , PA ) . Identification of strains of Staphylococcus aureus were made us- ing standard microbiological techniques , namely yellow ...
... agar colonies are < 1 mm diameter within 48 hrs . Isolated agar colonies are 1-2 mm diameter within 48 hrs . Isolated agar colonies are 2-6 mm diameter within 48 hrs . Isolated agar colonies are > 6 mm diameter within 48 hrs . Isolated ...
Michael Fischer. Bibliography. Agar, M. (1982) Towards an ethnographic language, American Anthropologist 84(4): 779–95. Agar, M. (1983) Microcomputers as field tools. Computers and the Humanities 17:19–26. Agar, M. (1986) Speaking of ...
... computation models [17, 600]. Recipe 2. Adamatzky–Tolmachev processor for approximating a skeleton. • Prepare a 0.5 mm film of 1% agar gel. • Mix the gel with K4[Fe(CN)6]·3H2O (concentration 2.5 mg ml−1). • Prepare a solution of FeCl3 ...
... computing in a broader sense. As Jon Agar has explored, early computing had an important role to play in several other branches of science, but this was not always just a straight forward matter of speeding up science13. Our interviews ...