The Book of Dreams (Jack Vance novel) in the free inaugural issue as part of a contest, offering large cash prizes to anyone who can first identify any or all of the ten people in the photograph. An attractive red-haired young woman, Alice Wroke, seeks temporary employment processing the contest entries. Gersen, expecting an attempt at infiltration by Treesong, covertly uses a lie detector on her and confirms his suspicions. Eventually, each of the subjects is identified, except for one man who seems to have a variety of identities. When a contestant submits the correct identification for all ten, Gersen confronts Alice and places most of his
Pilatus (detector) Pilatus (detector) Pilatus is the name of a series of silicon pixel detectors developed at the Swiss Light Source, and commercialised by Dectris. The common factor is that X-rays are converted to an electrical signal by the photoelectric effect in silicon subject to a substantial bias voltage, and then counted directly by a series of cells in an ASIC bonded to the silicon detector, rather than relying on a phosphor. That is, each pixel has its own amplifier, discriminator (for distinguishing X-rays of the desired energy from noise) and counter circuit; this is possible because the desired pixel size for