the lactic acid bacteria (lab) are an industrially important group of probiotic organisms that play an important role in human health by inhibiting harmful and pathogen bacteria growth, boosting immune function, and increasing resistance to infection.  this study aimed to isolate, identify, and biologically characterize probiotic lab strains from iranian traditional dairy products. a total of 2...

In this paper, centrifuge-based microfluidic platforms are reviewed and compared with other popular microfluidic propulsion methods. The underlying physical principles of centrifugal pumping in microfluidic systems are presented and the various centrifuge fluidic functions, such as valving, decanting, calibration, mixing, metering, heating, sample splitting, and separation, are introduced. Thos...

We use a revealed preference approach to disentangle conformity, an intrinsic taste to follow others, from information driven herding. We provide observations from a series of sequential decision making experiments in which subjects choose the type of information they observe before making their decision. Namely, subjects choose between observing a private (statistically informative) signal or ...

Getting a home page for the lab onto the internet is relatively easy — all you need is a server to store the file — but making it look good and having some useful content is a different matter. The spider has crawled across the full spectrum of lab pages: some are tedious, listing lab personnel and their rodent pets; some are almost art, so clever is their use of graphics, Java and other gadget...

We first present subjects with visual stimuli v: a low contrast Gaussian blob, very quickly flashed at some position in space xv. The subjects are asked to localize the stimulus position x. We find that the subjects estimates are unbiased on average but display some variability from trial to trial. Their estimates P (x|v) can be modelled using a gaussian distribution with mean xv and variabilit...

background: dominant lactic acid bacteria (lab) originally isolated from traditional non-dairy fermented foods, may harbor unique characteristics such as probiotic properties. in this research, probiotic potential of dominant lab isolated from pickled garlic was studied. methods: after isolation of dominant lab from pickled garlic produced with apple cider vinegar, the isolate was identified by...