Analysis of Kemps and Land O’Lakes brand 2% milk was performed to detect aluminum, magnesium and calcium levels. ICP-AES was utilized because of its quick run time and ability to detect all three elements simultaneously. Mg and Ca levels were found to be well below expected values and Al was in too small a concentration to detect using this method. A possibility for the low results was that the...

Data mining has become increasingly important as a key to analyzing, digesting and understanding the flood of digital data. Achieving this goal requires scaling mining algorithms to large databases. Many classic mining algorithms require multiple database scans and/or random access to database records. Work in this area focuses on overcoming limitations imposed when scanning a large database mu...

The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval; web content is essentially multilingual, and web searchers are often polyglots. Even though English has emerged as the lingua franca of the web, planning for a business trip or holiday usually involves digesting pages in a foreign language. The same holds for searching information about European culture, sports, ec...

A Twitter user can easily be overwhelmed by flooding tweets from her followees, making it challenging for the user to find interesting and useful information in tweets. The feature of Twitter Lists allows users to organize their followees into multiple subsets for selectively digesting tweets. However, this feature has not received wide reception because users are reluctant to invest initial ef...

This paper reports a new approach for constructing blood vessel-like tissues using microfluidic devices made of calcium-containing agarose hydrogel. Sodium alginate (NaA) solutions with different cell types at high densities were introduced stepwise into the hydrogel microchannel, to deposit cell-containing multiple Ca-alginate hydrogel layers on the channel surface with the help of Ca 2+ ions ...

Gp70 is an esterase originally called crystal protein because of its presence in crystalline structures in aggregation-competent Dictyostelium discoideum cells. Although postulated to break down spore coats, the function of gp70 in vivo was incompletely investigated. Our immunolocalization and biochemical studies of vegetative D. discoideum amoebae show that gp70 was recruited to phagosomes and...