Complete List of Authors: Chang, Yu-Chia; University of California, Santa Barbara, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. Wang, Chad; University of California, Santa Barbara, Electrical and Computer Engineering Johansson, Leif; University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept.of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Dept. Coldren, Larry; University of California, Santa Barbara, Electric...

In-game ad placement, defined as the process of placing advertisements in video games, is a rapidly growing industry with $295 million spent in 2007, $403 million spent in 2008, and $443 million spent in 2009 (Verna, 2008; Verna, 2009). However, video game sales for 2008 were $22 billion, with $11.7 billion of that being in entertainment software sales, $8.9 billion in hardware console sales, o...

Action and uptake of azides, nitrates, nitrites, hydroxylamines, and ammonium salts were measured on germination of Amaranthus albus, Lactuca sativa, Phleum pratense, Barbarea vulgaris, B. verna, and Setaria glauca seeds. Nitrate and nitrite reductase activities were measured in vivo for each of these kinds of seeds. Activities were measured in vitro for catalase, peroxidase, glycolate oxidase,...

BACKGROUND Erythrina verna, popularly known as "mulungu", is a Brazilian medicinal plant used to treat anxiety. Erythrina alkaloids have been described in several species of Erythrina, which have biological and therapeutic properties well known that include anxiolytic and sedative effects. METHODS In this work, in vitro metabolism of erythraline (1), the major spirocyclic alkaloid of Erythrin...

To what extent can the private sector be relied upon for the protection of biological diversity? Bioprospecting, the search for valuable products such as pharmaceuticals in biological organisms, is one incentive mechanism that has received much recent attention in the literature (Polasky et al. 1993, Polasky and Solow 1995, Simpson et al. 1996, Koo and Wright 1999, Rausser and Small 2000). Simp...

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAV) and their promising applications—such as undetected surveillance or exploration of environments with little space for land-based maneuvers—are a wellknown topic in the field of aerial robotics. Inspired by high maneuverability and agile flight of insects, over the past two decades a significant amount of effort has been dedicated to research on flappingwing MAVs, mos...