THE DUBLIN SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

A Study on the Rate of Contamination of Slaughtered Chicken by Campylobacter in Industrial Slaughter Houses

SUMMARY Campylobacters are gram negative, microaerophilic, curved or spiral shaped organisms, among which C.jejuni is considered as the most common causative agent of bacterial gastroenteritis in human. It is likely to be transmitted by consumption of animal products as well as poultry. So a potential source of infection could be traced to the chicken abattoirs in order to determine the rate o...

Dublin , Dublin , Ireland

Green houses.

We designed a web server for the analysis of biosynthetic capacities of metabolic networks. The implementation is based on the network expansion algorithm and the concept of scopes. For a given network and predefined external resources, called the seed metabolites, the scope is defined as the set of products which the network is in principle able to produce. Through the web interface the user c...

Halfway Houses

Patterns of the Prairie Houses

This paper attempts distillation of the essential design themes of Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie houses in pattern form. The result is a pattern language fragment that documents the key features of Wright’s architectural style and an interpretation of Wright’s design justifications and motivations. The exercise serves to illustrate the use of patterns and pattern languages in post hoc design doc...