Today's Online Social Networks are to communicate with people and share information with them. In this kind of network process user space is a space where scraps or temporal notes of its users can be displayed. But users have very less control on scraps posted on their space. Abused Scraps which are sending and received on the user private space are riddled by allowing OSN users to have a ...

Free [Ca ] inside the sarcoplasmic reticulum ([Ca ]SR) is difficult to measure yet critically important in controlling many cellular systems. In cardiac myocytes, [Ca ]SR regulates cardiac contractility. We directly measure [Ca ]SR in intact cardiac myocytes dynamically and quantitatively during beats, with high spatial resolution. Diastolic [Ca ]SR (1 to 1.5 mmol/L) is only partially depleted ...

The purpose of this feasibility research was to study a novel sensor based separation method for recycling of plastic materials from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) by using eigen-frequency response of impact acoustic emission. In this research three kinds of commonly used plastics, polypropylene (PP), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), and styrene-maleic-anhydride (SMA) sampled from end-of-lif...

In this work we introduce research on information scraps, or the unorganized pieces of personal information that commonly end up in our notebooks, spare pieces of paper, free text files, or e-mail. We perform an ethnographic study investigating patterns surrounding these scraps, uncovering patterns in use, content and needs. We conclude with a description of our prototype system Jourknow, inten...

As part of its plans to reduce substantially public spending, the UK is disbanding many of the advisory bodies it has traditionally paid to provide independent advice on a wide range of issues. Amongst these, two have been key in providing scientific advice. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was established in 1991 as a source of expertise on assisted fertilisation and hum...

Mainstream PIM tools capture only a portion of the information that people need to manage. Many information scraps seem to exist that don’t make their way into these tools, instead being relegated to sticky notes, text files, and other makeshift storage, or simply being lost. In an effort to understand the role of these information scraps, the underlying needs they reflect, and the way PIM tool...

Generating a phosphate prodrug is one of the common approaches for circumventing poor solubility issues of a parent drug. Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level was determined in rat intestine mucosa scraps, human colon carcinoma (Caco-2) cells, and Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells to characterize in vitro models for ALP-mediated phosphate prodrug conversion. In addition, fosphenytoin and fosfl...