May24th

MOLECULAR MODELING and DRUG DESIGN

Several programs have specialized functions for fields such as:

* Synthesis
* Toxicology
* Structure determination
* X-ray crystallography
* NMR

Studies undertaken with modern computational techniques may be organized along the three axes of molecular modeling:

* The first axis is simply the size of the system
- Number of atoms
* The second axis is the accuracy, or resolution with which we wish to determine the result
* The third axis is the time it takes for the event under study to occur

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May24th

Do Existence of Living Fossils Lead to Non-existence of Evolution?

First i will discuss the terms and come to a conclusion because without better defining, understanding, and drawing the limits of the terms of our interest we cannot answer this question.

Evolution, in biology, complex process by which the characteristics of living organisms change over many generations as traits are passed from one generation to the next. The science of evolution seeks to understand the biological forces that caused ancient organisms to develop into the tremendous and ever-changing variety of life seen on Earth today. It addresses how, over the course of time, various plant and animal species branch off to become entirely new species, and how different species are related through complicated family trees that span millions of years.

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May24th

Plagiarism

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PLAGIARISM

Defining “Ethics”

“What is all this, and how does it work?” – the answers to which are sought by science; and “What should we do?” – the answers to which are given by ethics. Ethics is a bridge between science and the deliberate mind. With the word deliberate mind I mean, the mind which seeks answers, try to understand the good/evil, true/false, right/wrong, has sense of morality which seems to be an innate and defining characteristic of human beings. We have to exclude nihilists, anarchists or psychopaths who may not seek an answer at all.

According to Bernard Williams, theory of ethics can be defined as “a philosophical structure, which together with some degree of empirical fact, will yield a decision procedure for moral reasoning” or in a more simple way, we can say that, ethics seeks to answer the question “What should I do, all things considered?”

Defining “Misconduct in Science”

Buzzelli defined “Misconduct in Science”, as “fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted within the scientific community for proposing, conducting, or reporting research.” We can deduce from definition that plagiarism is a type of misconduct.

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May24th

E-mail - Free Radicals - 24 May 2008 - Saturday

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Hello,

I thought, I seriously have to take control of things, People even for now start to send offending mails and that started to make me angry.

I launched a calendar application at http://calendar.ideviate.org. Here you can add your important items, exams etc. We are going to decide according to this schedule.

I will let the instructor see how people are doing here and there, about their summaries, schedules etc. And inform her, about any person, about any of their actions. Feel free to behave.

I moved the upload app to a new subdomain. You may reach it at http://upload.ideviate.org

For now, there is no definite exam date and time. Therefore, you may discuss the terms on http://forum.ideviate.org via the topics found here. Free radicals topics and summary files

You may again download the updated summary files in the forum under the topic Free Radicals Summary files

We are 20 people so please behave easy. We have a lecture at 29 May 2008. I hope I am going to present you the topic “Schizophrenia and Oxidant/Antioxidant Imbalance”

with peace

öfg

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