This chapter presents a tool for collaborative elearning using handheld devices that incorporates pair communication via text and speech input. It discusses the current state of e-learning for mobiles and illustrates the lack of such tools in reading comprehension domains. It then describes the tool development as a model for interface design, communication strategies, and data manipulation acr...

The skill of object manipulation is a common feature of primates including humans, although there are species-typical patterns of manipulation. Object manipulation can be used as a comparative scale of cognitive development, focusing on its complexity. Nut cracking in chimpanzees has the highest hierarchical complexity of tool use reported in non-human primates. An analysis of the patterns of o...

Microsporidia constitute a large phylum of eukaryotic obligate intracellular pathogens that can infect a variety of animal hosts. Understanding the biology of microsporidia is severely limited by our current inability to genetically manipulate these parasites. With a growing number of microsporidian genome sequences available and the revolution of successful CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing in virtua...

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells represent the predominant platform in biopharmaceutical industry for the production of recombinant biotherapeutic proteins, especially glycoproteins. These glycoproteins include oligosaccharide or glycan attachments that represent one of the principal components dictating product quality. Especially important are the N-glycan attachments present on many recombi...

Multi-touch interfaces have emerged with the widespread use of smartphones. Although a lot of people interact with 2D applications through touchscreens, interaction with 3D applications remains little explored. Most of 3D object manipulation techniques have been created by designers and users are generally put aside from the design creation process. We conducted a user study to better understan...

The function and performance of networks rely on their robustness, defined as their ability to continue functioning in the face of damage (targeted attacks or random failures) to parts of the network. Prior research has proposed a variety of measures to quantify robustness and various manipulation strategies to alter it. In this paper, our contributions are twofold. First, we critically analyze...