The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of EDTA, lysozyme, or the combination of EDTA and lysozyme on the antibacterial activity of ovotransferrin against Escherichia coli O157:H7. Ovotransferrin solutions (20 mg/mL) containing 100 mM NaHCO3 (OS) with added EDTA (2.0 or 2.5 mg/mL), lysozyme (1.0, 1.5, or 2.0 mg/mL), or both were prepared. The antibacterial activities of OS, OSE (OS+EDT...

Abstract Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of fine-grained (4–11 μm) fluvial sediments is rarely attempted but crucial for constraining the evolution mud-dominated floodplains. This study investigated applicability OSL to deposits in Mekong River, Cambodia based on a very young (<600 yr) point-bar riverbank succession and modern flood deposits. In succession, quartz provided you...

This review article gives a brief overview of some of the key legal challenges the OpenScienceLink, http://opensciencelink.eu (hereafter OSL) project faced with publishing biomedical research data online on an open access and re-use basis. Firstly, we give an overview of some of the key privacy challenges that the OSL project faced. Secondly, we analyse the intellectual property challenges that...

This investigation uses a multidisciplinary approach including geomorphic surface mapping, soil stratigraphic analysis, radiocarbon dating and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to investigate the chronology of soil formation and aeolian activation periods recorded in ridge dune deposits as well as the spatial variability of aeolian processes during active aeolian episodes. This stu...

We define two proper subclasses of subsequential functions based on the concept of Strict Locality (McNaughton and Papert, 1971; Rogers and Pullum, 2011; Rogers et al., 2013) for formal languages. They are called Input and Output Strictly Local (ISL and OSL). We provide an automata-theoretic characterization of the ISL class and theorems establishing how the classes are related to each other an...

We used Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) from X-ray-irradiated sodium chloride nanocrystals to investigate how silver nanoparticle (AgNP) films enhanced luminescence. We controlled the emitter-AgNP distance and used the OSL intensity and decay times to explore the plasmonic interactions underlying the enhanced luminescence. Both intensity and decay times depended on the emitter-AgNP dist...

Grid computing utilizes distributed heterogeneous resources to support large-scale or complicated computing tasks, and an appropriate resource scheduling algorithm is fundamentally important for the success of Grid applications. Due to the complex and dynamic properties of Grid environments, traditional model-basedmethodsmay result in poor scheduling performance in practice. Scalability and ada...

Abstract The results reported herein were motivated by the potential application of combined optically stimulated (OSL) and thermoluminescence (TL) measurements for separation between beta neutron dose components in mixed neutron-beta radiation fields. advantages OSL/TL are two-fold: (i) OSL TL readout can be carried out on same sample (ii) greater efficiency to high ionization density (HID) du...

Higher eukaryotes’ phenotypes–the unique properties of a system composed of several genes and their relations–are entirely different from a set of properties of individual genes. During evolution, higher organisms’ genes become multipurpose and their phenotypic implication become abstract. We hypothesize that an operating system of life (OSL) exists in “genome space,” encoding a variety of phen...