In this chapter, we describe a few popular experimental methodologies that can be used to independently validate the results of a microarray experiment. In contrast to many of the other chapters in this book, the techniques described here are decidedly non-mathematical or statistical in nature. Instead, most of them utilize standard 'wet-bench' molecular biology protocols that have proven thems...

A life cycle assessment of the impact of distillers grains plus solubles (DGS) on mitigation of energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comparing corn ethanol to gasoline demonstrates the importance of feeding wet DGS (WDGS) to feedlot cattle to optimize the environmental benefit of ethanol production relative to gasoline. Ethanol produced in Nebraska has a superior environmental impact compa...

A hollow cylinder apparatus was used to study some engineering properties of hollow cylindrical sand specimens prepared using the wet-pluviation technique. The refined specimen preparation method displayed good repeatability. Wet pluviation produced inherently cross-anisotropic specimens, with the level of initial anisotropy reducing with decreasing initial void ratio. The variation in the init...

The objectives of this chapter are twofold: firstly to introduce DNA computation, and secondly to demonstrate how DNA computing can be applied to solve large, complex combinatorial problems, such as the optimal scheduling of a group of elevators servicing a number of floors in a multi-storey building. Recently, molecular (or wet) computing has been widely researched not only within the context ...

BACKGROUND In recent years supermarkets and fast food restaurants have been replacing those "wet markets" of independent vendors as the major food sources in urban China. Yet how these food outlets relate to children's nutritional intake remains largely unexplored. METHOD Using a longitudinal survey of households and communities in China, this study examines the effect of the urban built food...

Recognizing that, over the last several years, extreme rainfall has led to hazardous stress in humans, animals, plants, and even infrastructure, present study, we aimed investigate characteristics of droughts Free State (FS) Province South Africa order determine future likelihood reoccurrences precipitation extremes using generalized value distribution (GEV) frequency analysis (EFA). In this re...