Uneven Splitting of Ham Sandwiches

Ham Sandwiches, Staircases and Counting Polynomials

Growth Profile and Toxigenicity of Bacillus cereus in Ready-to-eat Food Products of Animal Origin

The growth profile of Bacillus cereus in ready-to-eat (RTE) food products of animal origin was examined under different temperature and incubation conditions. In sandwiches and Kimbab, B. cereus did not grow or exhibited only minimal growth at 4 and 10oC, but it grew rapidly at ambient temperature. In sandwiches, B. cereus did not grow efficiently at 25oC, however, in ham, the main ingredient o...

A foodborne outbreak of gastroenteritis associated with Norwalk-like viruses: first molecular traceback to deli sandwiches contaminated during preparation.

In March 1998, an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis occurred among students at a Texas university. Overall, 125 ill students sought medical care. Case-control studies revealed that illness was significantly associated with eating foods from the university's main cafeteria deli bar on 9 and 10 March. Stool specimens from 9 (50%) of 18 ill students and samples of deli ham showed evidence of Norwa...

White polarization sandwiches: optical elements with non-orthogonal eigenpolarizations

Optical elements with non-orthogonal eigenpolarizations have complex anisotropic properties, which are not yet well understood. As an example of such elements, we studied theoretically the class of white polarization sandwiches. Light passing successively through two identical white sandwiches preserves its polarization state, so that, following the terminology of Berry and Dennis, white polari...

Creating New Sandwiches From Old

Earl is a case-based reasoning system which works in the domain of sandwich recipes. It has a case base of 9,507 cases, each being a sandwich recipe which we scraped from the web. We show how Earl can compose new sandwiches from the ingredients of sandwiches that it retrieves from its case base. On each iteration, it inserts into the sandwich the candidate ingredient which results in greatest c...