AIM To compare the use of commercial monoclonal antibody test systems--the Giardia CEL IF test and the Crypto CEL IF test--for the detection of Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum antigens in faeces with conventional techniques. METHODS Sensitivity and specificity were evaluated using preparations of cysts of G lamblia and purified oocysts of C parvum. Evaluation of 59 random faecal sa...

Out-of-memory problem was frequently encountered when processing thousands of CEL files using Bioconductor. We propose a divide-and-conquer strategy combined with randomised resampling to solve this problem. The CAMDA 2007 META-analysis data set which contains 5896 CEL files was used to test the approach on a typical commodity computer cluster by running established pre-processing algorithms fo...

Motion blur is a well-established technique which prevents strobing by making fast moving objects appear blurred. In cel animation however, different methods are used and this paper presents a new technique to emphasise the motion of cartoon objects through the application of geometry. We term the involved non-photorealistic motion blur as ‘cartoon blur’. In order to express cartoon blur, we ha...

Two experiments evaluated the effects on animal performance of traditional wet distillers grains (T-WDG) compared to cellulosic wet distillers grains (C-WDG) from a new process converting corn kernel fiber into cellulosic ethanol. The resulting coproduct has greater CP and decreased starch and ether extract (EE) concentrations (34.0% CP, 1.6% starch, 7.3% EE) compared to T-WDG (32.5% CP, 5.1% s...

This document provides examples on the usage of the oligo package. The datasets used here can be downloaded by the user, who is expected to have the CEL and XYS files in the following directory structure: Directory Name Object Name Description expressionData affyExpressionFS Latin Square Affymetrix U95A exonData affyExonFS Exon Sample Dataset Human snpData affySnpFS HapMap samples on XBA Array ...

We discuss the co-evolutionary learning method, applied to human learning, as a means toward a mediated, competitively motivated, educational environment on the Internet. This method was developed in our work with machine learners, where we have been examining environmental characteristics that enable successful and effective learning through “self-play” in games. Critical features include the ...

The constant increase in the number of sustainable products on the global markets demands new biotechnological processing strategies such as the purification and recovery of biocatalysts. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles exhibit excellent recovery properties as carrier materials in enzyme catalysis. We present the simple and fast electrostatic assembly of cellulase (CEL) and low-price...