We suggest an amalgamation of communication based programming (centred on sessions) and object oriented programming, whereby sessions between concurrent threads are amalgamated with methods. In our proposal threads consist of the execution of session bodies on objects and communicate with each other through asynchronously sending/receiving objects on channels. The choice on how to respond to a ...

Concentrations of S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine (SAM) in aqueous solution and fermentation liquids were quantitatively determined by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and verified by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The Ag nanoparticle/silicon nanowire array substrate was fabricated and employed as an active SERS substrate to indirectly measure the SAM concentration. The linear rela...

Photolysis of alkene-terminated self assembled monolayers (SAM) deposited on Degussa SiO(2) nanoparticles is studied following oxidation of SAM with a gaseous ozone/oxygen mixture. Infrared cavity ring-down spectroscopy is used to observe gas-phase products generated during ozonolysis and subsequent photolysis of SAM in real time. Reactions taking place during ozonolysis transform alkene-termin...

Research to develop highly versatile, chiral, heterogeneous catalysts for asymmetric organic transformations, without quenching the catalytic reactivity, has met with limited success. While chiral supramolecular structures, connected by weak bonds, are highly active for homogeneous asymmetric catalysis, their application in heterogeneous catalysis is rare. In this work, asymmetric catalyst was ...

Sam is a life-sized on-screen character who shares a physical castle and a plastic figurine with children, and takes turns with children to tell stories using the figurine. In this thesis, the original Sam system is improved. Now Sam shares two figurines with the user, and tells fantasy stories from the narrator's perspective. When Sam takes turn to tell story, Sam identifies the toys in the vi...

We have investigated the effect of mixing an alcohol-soluble C60 derivative into a self-assembled monolayer (SAM), which consisted of a redox-active Ru-complex with multipoint anchoring groups, on an indium tin oxide surface. Angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the mixed SAM revealed that the C60 derivative was well incorporated into the redox-active Ru-complex SAM. In addition, ...

An empirical (target-) BRDF normalization method has been implemented for Imaging Spectrometry data processing, following the approach of Kennedy, published in 1997. It is a simple, empirical method with the purpose of a rapid technique, based on a least-squares quadratic curve fitting process. The algorithm is calculating correction factors in either multiplicative or additive manner for each ...

This study assessed the quality of care provided by community health workers (CHWs) in managing cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) according to a treatment algorithm. A mixed methods approach was employed to provide perspectives on different aspects of quality of care, including technical competence and acceptability to caretakers. CHWs screened children at community level using a mid-upp...

MOTIVATION Significance analysis of microarrays (SAM) is a widely used permutation-based approach to identifying differentially expressed genes in microarray datasets. While SAM is freely available as an Excel plug-in and as an R-package, analyses are often limited for large datasets due to very high memory requirements. SUMMARY We have developed a parallelized version of the SAM algorithm ca...

We use surface x-ray diffraction to study the structure of organic-organic heterojunctions grown by organic molecular-beam deposition. In particular, we study films of 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride ~PTCDA! grown on a decanethiol self-assembled monolayer ~SAM! on a Au~111! surface. The deposition of several ('16) monolayers of PTCDA results in unstrained crystalline films whose ~0...