The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on its final mission (STS-135) on July 8, 2011. After just under 13 days, the shuttle landed safely at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the last time. Female C57BL/6J mice flew as part of the Commercial Biomedical Testing Module-3 (CBTM-3) payload. Ground controls were maintained at the KSC facility. Subsets of these mice were made available to investigators as...

Recent years the mobile computing got more and more importance in almost every field of life. Typical mobile computing devices are the so called wearable computers, that provides PC like resources in a miniature format including keyboard and screen I/O-s and wireless network connections. The first part of the paper introduces wearable computers especially a simple prototype built in our laborat...

• We propose a new fuzzy Weighted Influence Non-linear Gauge System (WINGS). uncover interdependencies by the direction, intensity and strength of dependencies. Fuzzy judgments are used to cope with uncertainties in untested technologies. introduce ideal nadir alternatives WINGS study solution space. present case evaluate ten advanced technology projects at NASA. Evaluating NASA is difficult du...

The automation of pre-launch diagnostics for launch vehicles offers three potential benefits: improving safety, reducing cost, and reducing launch delays. The Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype demonstrated anomaly detection, fault detection, fault isolation, and diagnostics for the Ares I-X first-stage Thrust Vector Control and for the associated ground hydraulics while the vehicle was in th...

Squamous Cell Carcinoma-derived Stem-like Cells (SCC-SC) originate from alterations in keratinocyte stem cells (KSC) gene expression and sustain tumor development, invasion and recurrence. Since survivin, a KSC marker, is highly expressed in SCC-SC, we evaluate its role in SCC-SC cell growth and SCC models. Survivin silencing by siRNA decreases clonal growth of SCC keratinocytes and viability o...

Microbiological analysis of overburden samples collected from chromite mining areas of Orissa, India revealed that they are rich in microbial density as well as diversity and dominated by Gram-negative (58%) bacteria. The phenotypically distinguishable bacterial isolates (130) showed wide degree of tolerance to chromium (2-8 mM) when tested in peptone yeast extract glucose agar medium. Isolates...

A multi-class semi-supervised learning algorithm formulated as a regularized kernel spectral clustering (KSC) approach is proposed. The method is bale to address both semi-supervised classification and clustering. In addition a low embedding dimension is utilized to reveal the existing number of clusters. Thanks to the Nyström approximation technique, the approach can be scaled up for analyzing...