Theileria parva is the causative agent of Corridor disease in cattle in South Africa. The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is the reservoir host, and, as these animals are important for eco-tourism in South Africa, it is compulsory to test and certify them disease free prior to translocation. A T. parva-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test based on the small subunit ribosoma...

Principal Investigator: Michael Pellin, Chemistry/Materials Science Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; (630) 252-3510; [email protected] Co-Investigators: Michael Savina, Chemistry/Materials Science Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; (630) 252-3514; [email protected] Claude Reed, Technology Development Division, Argonne National Laboratory, ...

In parallel with Hugh Darwen, Alexandra Cristea (module organizer) introduces you to the “state of the art” of relational database support in the industry. This takes the form of SQL, the language that was dubbed “intergalactic dataspeak” by database guru Michael Stonebraker in the 1980s (since when its use and its number of implementations have grown enormously). You are strongly encouraged to...

In several recent studies, saccadic eye movements were found to be influenced by concurrent reaching movements. The authors investigated whether that influence originates in limb kinematic or kinetic signals. To dissociate those 2 possibilities, the authors required participants (N = 6) to generate pointing movements with a mass that either resisted or assisted limb motion. With practice, parti...

We begin by considering the process of image formation when a scene is viewed through a camera. The word camera has its origins in the Latin camera and the Greek kamara, both of which refer to a room or a chamber. In particular we will consider image formation through a pinhole camera. This is the dominant image formation model that is studied in computer vision. A pinhole camera is a box in wh...