Resuscitation rates of injured Listeria monocytogenes on conventional selective Listeria enrichment broth and nonselective Trypticase soy broth containing 0.6% yeast extract were compared. Cells were heated to 60 degrees C for 5 min or frozen at -20 degrees C for 7 days. Inoculation of Trypticase soy broth-yeast extract with the stressed cells resulted in growth that was superior to that in Lis...

Many boundaries between objects in the world project onto curves in an image. However, boundaries involving natural objects (e.g., trees, hair, water, smoke) are often unworkable under this model because many pixels receive light from more than one object. We propose a technique for estimating alpha, the proportion in which two colors mix to produce a color at the boundary. The technique extend...

We present a multi-view alpha matting method that requires no user input and is able to deal with any arbitrary scene geometry through the use of depth maps. The algorithm uses multiple observations of the same point to construct constraints on the true foreground color and estimate its transparency. A novel free viewpoint rendering pipeline is also presented that takes advantage of the generat...

Studies at two Brown Medical School-affiliated hospitals were undertaken to evaluate a new selective broth medium (GBS broth) and to compare it to the LIM broth currently used to culture for group B streptococci. Beta-hemolytic group B streptococci produce a carotenoid pigment that turns GBS broth an orange color. From a total of 580 pregnant women, duplicate vaginal-rectal swabs were collected...

The efficacy and sensitivity of selenite brilliant green sulfa enrichment (SBG) broth for the isolation of Salmonella from fecal specimens were evaluated by using both clinical and artificially infected (artificial) fecal specimens. An examination of 1,588 clinical fecal specimens found Salmonella in 296 specimens, including 89 cases detected by the direct-plating xylose-lysine-desoxycholate me...

The application of Preston enrichment broth to isolation of 'thermophilic' campylobacters from water has been investigated. Enrichment substantially increased the yield of such organisms. The optimum timing for subculturing the broth was after 48 h incubation. Despite the addition of aerotolerant supplement to the broth the number and variety of isolates was greater when the broth was incubated...

This paper proposes techniques to fabricate synthetic gecko foot-hairs for future wall-climbing robots, and models for understanding the synthetic hair design issues. Two nanomolding fabrication techniques are proposed: the first method uses nanoprobe indented flat wax surface and the second one uses a nano-pore membrane as a template. These templates are molded with silicone rubber, polyimide,...

Hairstyle is one of the most important features people use to characterize one’s appearance. Whether a hairstyle is suitable or not is said to be closely related to one’s facial shape. This paper proposes a new technique for automatically retrieving a suitable hairstyle from a collection of hairstyle examples through learning the relationship between facial shapes and suitable hairstyles. A met...

The light and electron micrscopic findings in an eye enucleated from a 38-year-old woman with iris naevus (Cogan-Reese) syndrome are presented. The clinical manifestations of this disease, namely, iridic stromal matting, iridic nodule formation, and unilateral angle-closure glaucoma, appear to be secondary to an endothelial membrane on the anterior surface of the iris. The iris naevus syndrome ...

Aim: The study was conducted to evaluate the performance of different enrichment broths such as Tryptic Soy Yeast extract Broth (TSBYE), Brain Heart Infusion broth (BHI), Nutrient Broth (NB), Luria Broth (LB) and Peptone water (PW) for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes, Yersinia enterocolitica, Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella enterica Typhimurium. Materials and Methods: The bacterial...