The first Professor in Food Culture – Helsinki- February 2012

February 2012

February 2012 BSP FINAL.pub

The outbreak of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in Germany last year and recent reports about the emergence of Salmonella Kentucky as a “new superbug” have re-focused public attention on food-borne diseases. Salmonellosis is an important cause of food-borne disease with significant economic burden to the population and healthcare systems. In the last century, microbiologists have identified...

Cover vol. 9, no.1, February 2012

Obituary: Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh (1933-2012)

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...

Lecture 3 — February 23 , 2012

Planar point location is a problem in which we are given a planar graph (with no crossings) defining a map, such as the boundary of GUI elements. Then we wish to support a query that takes a point given by its coordinates (x, y) and returns the face that contains it (see Figure 1 for an example). As is often the case with these problems, there is both a static and dynamic version of this proble...