ECR Spotlight – Veronica Rivi

Iridoid glucosides from Veronica hederifolia.

A new iridoid glucoside, urphoside A, and six known iridoid glucosides, pikuroside, aucubin, veronicoside, catalposide, amphicoside, and verminoside, were isolated from Veronica hederifolia together with a known megastigmane glucoside, 3-hydroxy-5,6-epoxy-beta-ionol-9-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside, and a hexitol, dulcitol. The structures of the isolated compounds were established by the extensive 1D...

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...

ECR 2014, Part B

ECR 2014, Part A

Veronica JagBot: A Robotic Campus Tour Guide

In this paper we present a description of an autonomous mobile robot currently being designed and constructed at the University of South Alabama. The robot will function as a tour guide to interact with prospective students and other interested groups to answer questions related to the University and its academic programs. The robot, named Veronica JagBot is intended to promote human computer i...