Star-Kick is a commercially available and fully automatic table soccer (foosball) robot, which plays table soccer games against human players on a competitive level. One of our research goals is to learn this table soccer robot skillful actions similar to a human player based on a moderate number of trials. Two independent learning algorithms are employed for learning a new lock and slide-kick ...

In situ hybridization techniques, along with immunocytochemistry allow detection of specific DNA or RNA sequences or proteins in morphologically preserved chromosomes, cells or tissue sections. This technique was originally developed by two independent groups, Pardue and Gall (1969) and John et al. (1969). Since then it has been modified and refined for different applications. Conventional in s...

We proposed and demonstrated a “refreshable microfluidic channel.” This channel was constructed between two stacked glass slides with a 100 m thick spacer. Each surface of the slides was frosted by being ground with an abrasive and made hydrophobic due to the treatment with 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexamethyldisilazane. A line was drawn on the surface using dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as the ink. Because this...

To the Editor: Cocaine is one of the most widespread drugs of abuse; therefore, clinical laboratories are frequently requested to screen for the presence of cocaine and its metabolites in urine. When screening a urine specimen from a potential study participant for drugs of abuse, using a Verdict II lateral flow test slide (MEDTOX Diagnostics), multiple technologists obtained a negative screeni...