Learning Content Management System (LCMS) supports e-learning applications with storage and efficient access for e-Learning Objects (LOs). In order to foster LCMS adoption by the e-learning community, an important issue is to bring course modelling to the realm of the LCMS. In this paper, we describe the Repository of Objects with Semantic Access (ROSA) project. ROSA is a LCMS that provides use...

Chikusaku-eki and Mokusaku-eki are natural resources and acidic liquid by-products of bamboo and broad leaved trees charcoal burner. These products contain more than 200 ingredients, including phenols, poly phenols and acetic acids. These by-products were tested for their fungicidal activity against sapstaining fungi. There are no studies about the antifungal activity of Chikusaku-eki and Mokus...

Centrifugal partition chromatography is a liquid-liquid separation method well adapted for the fractionation or purification of natural compounds from plant extracts. However, following the preparative isolation, the fractions collected must be analysed by high-performance thin-layer chromatography or high-performance liquid chromatography to evaluate their composition and/or their purity. Thes...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by the human body (via e.g. breath, skin, urine, or saliva) offer unique and noninvasive insight into physiological and medical status of an individual. The analysis of this volatile chemical signature emerges as a promising and powerful approach for detecting and tracking infections, cancer development, metabolic disorders, progression of therapeutic i...

in this study, a sensitive method of dispersive liquid phase microextraction based on ion-pair combined with the flame atomic absorption spectrometry was proposed for the determination of trace ni(ii) using aliquat 336-chloride as ion pair agent. several factors which have effect on  the microextraction efficiency of ni(ii), such as ph, extraction and dispersive solvent type and their volume, c...

Liquid chromatography electrospray ionization mass spectrometry is a very powerful technique that combines the liquid chromatography separation with highly selective and sensitive mass detection, but the ionization process is susceptible to matrix signal suppression. Signal suppression, therefore, presents a challenge in doing quantitative liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry applications. U...

Aplysia can readily exhibit operant conditioning of their head-waving response when bright light is used as aversive reinforcement (Cook and Carew, 1986). In the first paper of this series (Cook and Carew, 1989a), we showed that the electromyographic (EMG) activity of a discrete band of neck muscles, the lateral columellar muscles (LCMs) of Aplysia is significantly correlated with the component...

In order to maximize road maintenance funds and optimize the condition of road networks, pavement management systems need detailed and reliable data on the status of the road network. To date, reliable crack and raveling data has proven difficult and expensive to obtain. To solve this problem, over the last 10 years Pavemetrics inc. in collaboration with INO (National Optics Institute of Canada...

The aim of this study was to screen for microorganism that able to utilize 3-N-trimethylamino-1-propanol (homocholine) as a sole source of carbon and nitrogen. The aerobic degradation of homocholine has been found by a gram-positive Rhodococcus sp. bacterium isolated from soil. The isolate was identified as Rhodococcus sp. strain A4 based on the phenotypic features, physiologic and biochemical ...

In dieser Ausarbeitung wird eine, im Rahmen des eCult-Projektes erarbeitete, Lösung zur automatischen Bewertung von Datenbankaufgaben mittels des LCMS LONCAPA sowie des externen Bewertungstools Praktomat vorgestellt. Hierbei soll zum Einem auf die Verbindung des LCMS mit externen Bewertungstools, wie dem Praktomat, sowie auf die Funktionsweise und das Verfahren der automatischen Bewertung von S...