CHEMISTRY: Explosive When Scratched

I scratched his soles.

An Itch To Be Scratched

The description of itch (formally known as pruritus) as an "unpleasant sensation that elicits the desire or reflex to scratch" (Ikoma et al., 2006) is immediately familiar. Research in the field of pruritoception has added to our understanding of this area of sensory neurobiology as it pertains to both normal and pathological conditions. In particular, much progress has been made on the mechani...

Metagenomics: microbial diversity through a scratched lens.

Since nucleic acids were first extracted directly from the environment and sequenced, metagenomics has grown to one of the most data-rich and pervasive techniques for understanding the taxonomic and functional diversity of microbial communities. In the last decade, cheaper sequencing has democratized the application of metagenomics and generated billions of reads, revealing staggering microbial...

Laser-induced plasma chemistry of the explosive RDX with various metallic nanoparticles.

The feasibility of exploiting plasma chemistry to study the chemical reactions between metallic nanoparticles and molecular explosives such as cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) has been demonstrated. This method, based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, involves the production of nanoparticles in a laser-induced plasma and the simultaneous observation of time-resolved atomic and molecul...

Efficient Decoding of Blurred, Pitched, and Scratched Barcode Images

While there are number of domain transformation based image processing algorithms for decoding barcode images, these algorithms are computationally intensive and thus not suitable for embedded or online applications. These algorithms are better implemented on desktop or server systems for decoding images offline. In this paper, we discuss a camera independent barcode image decoding algorithm su...