Roald M. Tiggelaar a,d,1, Fernando Benito-López b,1, Dorothee C. Hermes a, Helmut Rathgen c, Richard J.M. Egberink b, Frieder G. Mugele c, David N. Reinhoudt b, Albert van den Berg a, Willem Verboom b, Han J.G.E. Gardeniers a,d,∗ a BIOS, Lab-on-a-Chip Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands b Supramolecular Chemistry and ...

to inspect the effect of methyl salicylate (mesa) vapor on fruit shelf life quality in kiwifruit (actinidia chinensis cv. hayward) an experiment was carried out in citrus research institute, ramsar, iran in 2006-2007. the experiment was based on a completely random design of three replications. the treatments consisted of mesa at five rates (0, 8, 16, 24 and 32 µl/l) and storage time of five le...

In this paper, we describe the design and instantiation of a multimedia edge service architecture (MESA) for enhanced video transmission over wireless networks. MESA encompasses simple and novel rate-matching and shaping mechanisms as building blocks that ensure that the video rate matches the instantaneous available wireless channel capacity at fine timescales. Designing such a rate matching s...

A field test carried out in an industrial greenhouse in Lithuania revealed the attractiveness of synthetic methyl salicylate (MeSa) to two dipteran species: the vinegar fly, Drosophila busckii (Drosophilidae), and the cluster fly, Pollenia rudis (Calliphoridae). The attractant for the former fly species was especially effective, as sticky traps containing 0.25 ml of MeSa captured (814 +/- 55) D...

There is growing evidence in the epidemiologic literature of the relationship between air pollution and adverse health outcomes. Prediction of individual air pollution exposure in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded Multi-Ethnic Study of Atheroscelerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air) study relies on a flexible spatio-temporal prediction model that integrates land-use regression with...

BACKGROUND Treatments for post-vasectomy obstructive azoospermia include vasectomy reversal, microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA) or percutaneous testicular sperm extraction (TESE) with IVF/ICSI. We examined the cost-effectiveness of these treatments. METHODS A decision analytic model was created to simulate treatment. Outcome probabilities were derived from peer-reviewed literatu...

Blood pressure (BP) is a complex trait that is the consequence of an interaction between genetic and environmental determinants. Previous studies have demonstrated increased BP in mice with global deletion of TASK-1 channels contemporaneous with diverse dysregulation of aldosterone production. In humans, genome-wide association studies in ≈100 000 individuals of European, East Asian, and South ...

Christian Blum, Niels Zijlstra, Ad Lagendijk, 3 Martijn Wubs, Allard P. Mosk, Vinod Subramaniam, and Willem L. Vos Nanobiophysics (NBP), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands∗ Complex Photonic Systems (COPS), MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands FOM-Institute AMOLF, Science Park, 1098 XG...

Engineering mammalian cell-based devices that monitor and therapeutically modulate human physiology is a promising and emerging frontier in clinical synthetic biology. However, realizing this vision will require new technologies enabling engineered circuitry to sense and respond to physiologically relevant cues. No existing technology enables an engineered cell to sense exclusively extracellula...

We report a study of incremental learning of new word meanings over multiple episodes. A new method called MESA (Markov Estimation of Semantic Association) tracked this learning through the automated assessment of learner-generated definitions. The multiple word learning episodes varied in the strength of contextual constraint provided by sentences, in the consistency of this constraint, and in...