Most magnetic read head data sheets do not fully specify the frequency-dependent components and are often vague when specifying other key parameters. In some cases, the specifications of two very similar heads from two different manufacturers might be quite different in terms of parameters specified and omitted. The limitations in the data sheets make designing an optimum card reading system un...

This paper presents a methodology for discovering and explaining how games with very few thematic assets (or abstract games) are meaningful to players through rules and dynamics. Through the process of implementing play strategies as computer code, and then running simulations of the game being played, insights about how a player might think about and experience playing the game are revealed. T...

To move electrochemical sensing technology from the laboratory into point-of-care (POC)-based settings, platforms must be cost-effective, portable, and user-friendly. Here, we present comparison of a near-field communication (NFC) potentiostat with traditional potentiostat. The NFC is roughly size credit card wirelessly powered by smartphone user-friendly application for analysis.

Inflammasomes elicit host defense inside cells by activating caspase-1 for cytokine maturation and cell death. AIM2 and NLRP3 are representative sensor proteins in two major families of inflammasomes. The adaptor protein ASC bridges the sensor proteins and caspase-1 to form ternary inflammasome complexes, achieved through pyrin domain (PYD) interactions between sensors and ASC and through caspa...

Blur is one of many visual factors that can limit reading in both normal and low vision. Legge et al. [Legge, G. E., Pelli, D. G., Rubin, G. S., & Schleske, M. M. (1985). Psychophysics of reading. I. Normal vision. Vision Research, 25, 239-252.] measured reading speed for text that was low-pass filtered with a range of cutoff spatial frequencies. Above 2cycles per letter (CPL) reading speed was...

PURPOSE To investigate whether the clinical tests used in routine eye examinations can identify adults whose reading rate increases with their preferred coloured overlay(s). METHODS Routine optometric tests were used to measure 73 undergraduate students' refractive error, visual acuity, stereo-acuity, amplitude of accommodation, near point of convergence, associated heterophoria at near, colo...

Synopsis: At the Southern CaUfornia Co-operative Wind Tunnel, part of the need for rapid and accurate recording of instrument readings on tabular data sheets has been met by the development of a new automatic-translating device. This device has unusually low torque and is especially suhable for use with self-balancing potentiom­ eters. The device picks up the reading as a whole number and elect...

Reporting results to provide a comprehensive picture of how U.S. students perform in key subject areas is one of the objectives of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). In the United States, nationally representative data on student achievement come primarily from two sources: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the “Nation’s Report Card”—and the ...