† Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY ‡ Department of Computer Science, Canisius College Abstract  Educators wishing to use e-learning materials must choose between homegrown solutions and off-the-shelf materials. Each choice has distinct benefits and drawbacks. Handcrafted materials are often expensive to develop and maintain, yet their content will lik...

Capillary electrophoresis was applied for the first time to determine soybean proteins in commercial soybean products. The most suitable conditions for the analysis of these products in less than 7 min were 0.05 M phosphate buffer (pH 8) with 1 M urea; detection wavelength, 254 nm; applied voltage, 20 kV; and temperature, 30 degrees C. Quantitation of soybean proteins was achieved using referen...

The multivariate calibration method, partial least square regression (PLS) was applied for thesimultaneous spectrophotometric determination of Lidocaine (LID) and Hydrocortisone acetate(HCA) in their mixtures. The parameters of chemometric technique were optimized and theproposed method was validated with synthetic samples and applied to analyze these drugs inpharmaceutical products with good a...

Achieving a high level of reliability is of utmost importance in military applications. A given military grade part is extremely more expensive than its commercial counterpart. This great price difference is mainly due to the differences in design, manufacturing and the quality of parts used in commercial versus military products. Moreover, design of military grade products is much more difficu...

five years by the “coming of age” of agricultural biotechnology. Perhaps a more appropriate metaphor would be the birth and the preschool years of the first set of commercial products from recombinant DNA technology. We have witnessed much laboratory development, field testing, and seeking of regulatory approval in the United States (U.S.) and abroad in the last decade. Finally, the first signi...

Twenty years on from a review in the first issue of this journal, this contribution revisits glucose sensing for diabetes with an emphasis on commercial developments in the home blood glucose testing market. Following a brief introduction to the needs of people with diabetes, the review considers defining technologies that have enabled the introduction of commercial products and then reviews th...

An early recovery protocol that was investigated at length and is currently implemented in most commercial Distributed Database Management System products is the two-phase commit protocol. However, there is one main drawback in using this, namely blocking, that is, operational sites having to wait for the recovery of a failed site in order to complete a transaction. The two-phase commit protoco...

Anchovies have been traditionally captured and processed for human consumption for millennia. In the case of Spain, ripened and salted anchovies are a delicacy, which, in some cases, can reach high commercial values. Although there have been a number of studies presenting DNA methodologies for the identification of anchovies, this is one of the first studies investigating the level of mislabell...

The potential for the cannibalization of new product sales by remanufactured versions of the same product is a central issue in the continuing development of closed-loop supply chains. We investigate the cannibalization question via auctions of new and remanufactured consumer and commercial goods. These auctions allow us to explore the impact of offering new and remanufactured products at the s...