Microfluidic systems allow (bio)chemical processes to be miniaturized with the benefit of shorter time-to-result, parallelism, reduced sample consumption, laminar flow, and increased control and efficiency. However, such miniaturization inherently limits the size of the solid objects that can be processed and entails new challenges such as the interfacing of macroscopic samples with microscopic...

This paper considers situations characterized by a common-pool resource, which needs to be divided among agents. Each of the agents has some claim on this pool and an individual reward function for assigned resources. This paper analyzes not only the problem of maximizing the total joint reward, but also the allocation of these rewards among the agents. Analyzing these situations a new class of...

This paper argues that innovation can be best understood as an information process which is then concretized as a product that meets demand. Two very different firms, Canon Inc. and Apple Computer Inc., are used as case study illustrations. Innovation does not proceed through logical deduction, but rather is furthered by the use of metaphors and analogies. The bureaucratic and staid structures ...

The observation of Manchot? that sodium pentacyano-ammineferroate2 I absorbs oxygen has led Baudisch and his coworkers3 to study the catalytic action of this salt, as well as of its water analogue II, in the oxidation of pyrimidines and purines. The present authors have previously reported in this journal4 on the nature of the oxidation products obtained. In the present paper the problem is con...

With a dedicated definition of ‘Context’ in image understanding systems, we present in this paper a novel context modelling and classification system. The main goal behind multimodal context modelling is to identify the context type from video-surveillance footage of multipurpose halls. First, the distribution of the different zones in a multipurpose hall is automatically captured using a dedic...

The luminol test for blood was carried out on a set of interior fittings and surfaces inside three different makes of modern motor car. The surfaces and fittings provided little interference with the test for blood, although there was some detectable chemiluminescence when the test was applied to blood-free material from a seatbelt, a boot-lining and a gear-knob. The case with which haemoglobin...

From the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Section of Orthopaedics, Department of Surgery, the Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center, and the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and the Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, the Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disease Center, and the Specialized Ce...

saeed baghery was born in amol/mazandaran (iran) in 1985. he completed his b.sc. in pure chemistry in 2009 from islamic azad university of amol, mazandaran, iran. he was graduated from m.sc. degree under the supervision of dr. seyed mohammad vahdat in organic chemistry from islamic azad university of amol, mazandaran, iran. he is currently organic chemistry ph.d student under the supervision of...

We describe a simple cost-effective technique for the transport of binary vector plasmid DNA by mail. Our results demonstrate that common multipurpose printing paper is a satisfactory substrate and superior to the more absorbent 3 MM chromatography paper for the transport of plasmid DNA through the mail. We show that depositing as little as 100 ng of purified plasmid onto multipurpose printing ...