Marine Protists Are Not Just Big Bacteria

The Problem: Not Just Bacteria–Bacterial Biofilms

Bacteria will stick to almost any surface in an industrial water system and will almost always produce a slimy polysaccharide matrix. This state of microorganism activity is now universally known as biofilm. Biofilm poses numerous problems in water processes, including corrosion, loss of process efficiency such as heat transfer, and health issues such as Legionella infection. Biofilm is not onl...

Edges Are Not Just Steps

Images contain step edges, line features and many feature types that are somewhere between the two. Traditional gradient based edge operators are tuned to detect step edges, and hence are unable to properly detect and localize other feature types. The Phase Congruency detector is used as a tool to identify the different feature types found in images. It is shown that there is a continuum of fea...

Bacteria are not Lamarckian

Instructive influence of environment on heredity has been a debated topic for centuries. Darwin's identification of natural selection coupled to chance variation as the driving force for evolution, against a formal interpretation proposed by Lamarck, convinced most scientists that environment does not specifically instruct evolution in an oriented direction. This is true for multicellular organ...

Build Your Dream (not just Big) Analytics Program

This paper reports on a panel discussion held at AMCIS 2014 and subsequent panel member research and findings. We focus on curriculum design, program development, and sustainability in business analytics (BA) in higher education. We address some of the burning questions the IS community has asked concerning the various stages of BA program building, and we elaborate challenges that institutions...

Jets are not just 4 - momenta !