Nancy Atkinson, bacteriologist, winemaker and writer

Nancy Knowlton

Alexander Sulakvelidze, Chief Scientist at Intralytix and one of its co-founders, says phages are a very safe and natural way of protecting food against bacteria. “The concept of using phages for improving food safety is based on simply applying phages back onto the foods in the right concentration, at the right place, and at the right time,” Sulakvelidze explains. “Thus, applying lytic phages ...

DSS for Winemaker: A Dynamic Modeling Approach

We present a decision support system for the fermentation step in winemaking based on a mathematical model of kinetics of alcoholic fermentation. We used an optimization technique in order to predict the fermentation step. This optimization technique was carried out using the method of factorial analysis. The first interesting application of this system, rather than existing ones, comes from th...

Minshew, Nancy J

This is the most difficult aspect of seizure management, clearly the most critical, and yet it receives relatively little attention. Despite the sophistication of electrophysiologic methods for the diagnosis of seizures, the majority of patients will be assessed without the benefit of any technology beyond the routine scalp recording. Unfortunately, physicians are generally quite reluctant to m...

Charles Nicolle (1866-1936): bacteriologist and conqueror of typhus.

Improving Writer Identification Through Writer Selection

In this work we present a method for selecting instances for a writer identification system underpinned on the dissimilarity representation and a holistic representation based on texture. The proposed method is based on a genetic algorithm that surpasses the limitations imposed by large training sets by selecting writers instead of instances. To show the efficiency of the proposed method, we ha...