Modern flow cytometric cell sorters are all capable of so-called "high-speed sorting." However, there is confusion about exactly how fast a "high-speed" cell sorter can sort cells. There are many considerations in achieving the fastest sorting speed, as well as the highest quality sort results--cell recovery, purity, and functionality. This requires the same considerations required for "slow-sp...

OBJECTIVE Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are a promising technology for restoring motor ability to paralyzed patients. Spiking-based BCIs have successfully been used in clinical trials to control multi-degree-of-freedom robotic devices. Current implementations of these devices require a lengthy spike-sorting step, which is an obstacle to moving this technology from the lab to the clinic. A vi...

BACKGROUND Cell sorting has a history dating back approximately 40 years. The main limitation has been that, although flow cytometry is a science, cell sorting has been an art during most of this time. Recent advances in assisting technologies have helped to decrease the amount of expertise necessary to perform sorting. METHODS Droplet-based sorting is based on a controlled disturbance of a j...

In this paper, we consider two types of inverse sorting problems. The first type is an inverse sorting problem under weighted Hamming distance with bound constraints, which can be solved in O(n) time. The second type is a family of partial inverse sorting problems which we can further divide into two kinds, with free positions and with fixed positions. We show that both types of partial inverse...

Abstract— Sorting Networks are cost-effective multistage interconnection networks with sorting capabilities. These networks theoretically consume Θ(NlogN) comparisons. However, the fastest implementable sorting networks built so far consume Θ(NlogN) comparisons, and generally, use the Merge-sorting strategy to sort the input. An 18-element network using the Merge-sorting strategy needs at least...

We propose new sequential sorting operations by adapting techniques and methods used for designing parallel sorting algorithms. Although the norm is to parallelize a sequential algorithm to improve performance, we adapt a contrarian approach: we employ parallel computing techniques to speed up sequential sorting. Our methods can also work for multi-core sorting with minor adjustments that do no...

Numerous experiments on CHO cells have shown that endosomes are composed of separate vesicular and tubulovesicular compartments, such as the sorting endosome, the recycling compartment, and the late endosome. However, Hopkins et al. (Nature 346, 335-339, 1990) have reported that endosomes in HEp2 human carcinoma cells form an extensive tubular reticulum. To resolve their observations with previ...

distribution centers (dcs) play important role in maintaining the uninterrupted flow of goods and materials between the manufacturers and their customers.this paper proposes a mathematical model as the bi-objective capacitated multi-vehicle allocation of customers to distribution centers. an evolutionary algorithm named non-dominated sorting ant colony optimization (nsaco) is used as the optimi...