The purpose of this research-in-progress paper is to explore factors affecting users’ participation in microblogging. Based on literature review and the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework, a conceptual model is proposed to depict the relationships between the features of micro-blogging services and users’ behavior. Specifically, the features of micro-blogs such as subscription, broadc...

Brevibacterium massiliense infection in man is rare. We report here the second case with isolation of B. massiliense in human. This micro-organism requires specific laboratory investigations such as 16S rRNA gene sequencing for accurate species identification. The clinical outcome was favorable.

Cells sense and respond to properties of their microenvironment that can affect cell morphology, protein levels and localization, gene expression, and even nuclear integrity. Tissue micro-stiffness, largely influenced by extracellular matrix, varies dramatically within an organism and can be a useful parameter to both clarify and organize a wide range of cell and molecular processes, such as ge...

Micro-organisms can be classified into three different types according to their size. We study the efficiency of the swimming of micro-organism in two dimensional fluid as a device for helping the explanation of this hierarchy in the size. We show that the efficiency of flagellate becomes unboundedly large, whereas that of ciliate has the upper bound. The unboundedness is related to the curious...

Proteins are synthesized and enzymes can function at surprisingly high temperatures in thermophilic micro-organisms. This temperature is about 90°C in the case of Bacillus thermus-aquaticus (A.T.C.C. 25104). Lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.27) was isolated from this micro-organism, and the temperature dependence of the rate of pyruvate reduction and thermodynamic parameters of heat inactivation...

The ability of micro-organisms to degrade isosaccharinic acids (ISAs) while tolerating hyperalkaline conditions is pivotal to our understanding of the biogeochemistry associated within these environs, but also in scenarios pertaining to the cementitious disposal of radioactive wastes. An alkalitolerant, ISA degrading micro-organism was isolated from the hyperalkaline soils resulting from lime d...

The Lactobacillus Acidophilus is a source of a viable live, naturally occurring micro organism, which is found predominant in the digestive system of man and all warm blooded animals. Stress conditions such as new arrivals, molting, breeding, feeding young, growth, preparation for flight, illness and injury, along with contaminated feed and water, food soured in the crop, chlorinated water, ant...

The monitoring of the vital functions of human organism could be in the future facilitated by swallowing micro-sensors or implementing them under the skin. Multi-sensor capsules or micro-cameras that can be swallowed already exist, by which we can transmit images from inside the human body without surgery (with a battery life of 24 hours). This paper presents our first reflection on the develop...