We present results of the first large-scale interlaboratory study carried out in synthetic biology, as part of the 2014 and 2015 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competitions. Participants at 88 institutions around the world measured fluorescence from three engineered constitutive constructs in E. coli. Few participants were able to measure absolute fluorescence, so data was ...

ROBACH, D. L. (Michigan State University, East Lansing), and R. N. COSTILOW. Role of bacteria in the oxidation of myoglobin. Appl. Microbiol. 9:529-533. 1961.-The addition to steaks of cell suspensions of a number of aerobic bacteria and of Saccharomyces cerevisiae greatly increased the rate of discoloration. Low inocula resulted in the more rapid appearance of the brown color of metmyoglobin, ...

The growth of varicella-zoster virus (V-Z) in nonprimate cell cultures has not been extensively studied. Weller, Witton and Bell ( 1 ) reported partial S U C C ~ S S in adaptation of V-Z to rabbit kidney cells, and Soltz-Szotz ( 2 , 3 ) described the susceptibility of guinea pig cells to V-Z, which was confirmed by Sefcovicova (4 ) . Cell-free virus was not obtained by these investigators. This...

We describe the Raytheon BBN Technologies (BBN) led VISER system for the TRECVID 2012 Multimedia Event Detection (MED) and Recounting (MER) tasks. We present a comprehensive analysis of the different modules in our evaluation system that includes: (1) a large suite of visual, audio and multimodal low-level features, (2) modules to detect semantic scene/action/object concepts over the entire vid...

We describe the Raytheon BBN (BBN) VISER system that is designed to detect events of interest in multimedia data. We also present a comprehensive analysis of the different modules of that system in the context of the MED 2011 task. The VISER system incorporates a large set of low-level features that capture appearance, color, motion, audio, and audio-visual cooccurrence patterns in videos. For ...

The Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is unlike any previous navigation system fielded by the FAA. Historically the FAA has implemented relatively simple and distributed systems. Each only affects a small portion of the airspace and each is maintained independently of the others. WAAS, in contrast, is a complex and centralized, system that provides guidance to the whole airspace. Consequentl...

the hoard of kalmakarreh includes hundreds of golden and silver wares that were incidentally discovered by a local hunter in 1987 at a northwest 20 kilometer distance to pol-e dokhtar in province of lorestan. the collection includes a variety of dishes, raytheon, human and animal sculptures, masks, plaques, jewelry,… that belongs to the neo- elamite (first millennium bc). this research led to t...

ROBACH, D. L. (Michigan State University, East Lansing), and R. N. COSTILOW. Role of bacteria in the oxidation of myoglobin. Appl. Microbiol. 9:529-533. 1961.-The addition to steaks of cell suspensions of a number of aerobic bacteria and of Saccharomyces cerevisiae greatly increased the rate of discoloration. Low inocula resulted in the more rapid appearance of the brown color of metmyoglobin, ...

Polyampholytes represent a class of ionic copolymer containing positive, negative and even neutral monomers. The unique physical properties of polyampholytes that arise from Coulombic interactions between polymeric and solvent ions make them of interest to both the scientific and engineering community. This study presents an experimental and analytical investigation of the phase behavior of pol...

The Knowledge Base Acceleration (KBA) track ran in TREC 2012, 2013, and 2014 as an entitycentric filtering evaluation. This track evaluates systems that filter a time-ordered corpus for documents and slot fills that would change an entity profile in a predefined list of entities. Compared with the 2012 and 2013 evaluations, the 2014 evaluation introduced several refinements, including high-qual...