ELISA system was integrated into a glass microchip. Antigen-antibody and enzyme reactions were performed on a surface of microbeads which were packed in the chip. By monitoring the enzyme reaction product with a thermal lens microscope, good calibration curve was obtained with short assay time. Moreover, to realize higher throughput assay, a semi-automatic ELISA system with a 32-ch microchip wa...

Multichannel ECG is an important instrumentation for experimental and clinical electrophysiology. Both the software and the front-end design issues are described for a 128 channel system which can record the signals up to 100 seconds. The basic analysis and presentation of the acquired ECG signals are also given with examples of body surface potential maps. Thanks to the frequency response of t...

Multimedia Database Systems (MMDS) support rich data types, such as text, images, video, and sound. Queries in MMDSs may refer to the content of the stored multimedia objects. This is called content-based querying. However, manual entry of content descriptions is very difficult and subjective. A better approach is to provide automatic content-based retrieval through image, text, and sound inter...

This paper deals with the representation of mental models of dynamic systems (MMDS). Improving ’mental models’ has always been fundamental in the field of system dynamics. Even though a specific definition exists, no conceptual model of the structure of a MMDS has been offered so far. Previous research about the learning effects of system dynamics interventions have used two methods to represen...

We provide a report for the ACM SIGKDD community about the 2008 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2008), its origin in MMDS 2006, and future directions for this interdisciplinary research area.