Rapid and accurate determination of the efficacy of sterilization procedures is demonstrated using a hand-held instrument based on the intrinsic fluorescence of germinating spores. This technology requires no added reagents or sample contact.

The MICE experiment will provide the first measurement of ionisation cooling, a technique suitable for reducing the transverse emittance of a tertiary muon beam in a future neutrino factory accelerator facility. MICE is presently in the final stages of commissioning its beam line. The MICE luminosity monitor has proved an invaluable tool throughout this process, providing independent measuremen...

BACKGROUND The endotracheal cardiac output monitor (ECOM) is a new device that uses an endotracheal tube with multiple electrodes to measure cardiac output (CO). It measures the changes in electrical impedance caused by pulsatile blood flow in the aorta. The system was tested for safety and efficacy in 10 swine. METHODS Swine (60-80 kg) were chronically instrumented with a transit time flow p...

R esponse to our first issue of Multiple Sclerosis Monitor and Commentary was excellent. The consensus was that we fulfilled our goal of placing recently published articles about the pathogenesis and care of multiple sclerosis (MS) into context. This, the second issue, has the same intent. By matching experts with topics in which they have experience, we have an opportunity to go beyond the res...

Delta-oriented programming allows software developers to define software product lines as variations of a common code base, where variations are expressed as so-called program deltas. Monitor-oriented programming (MOP) provides a mechanism to execute functionality based on the execution history of the program; this is useful, e.g., for the purpose of runtime verification and for enforcing secur...

Fifty percent of the titles I've addressed since embarking on writing this article series are a result of my having received 5 or more concerned phone calls relating to a given subject. This installment: The latest or updated generation of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems selling techniques to be encountered at the National Manufacturing Week Conference in Chicago: 1) Are you going t...

The IBEX Background Monitor (IBaM) provides a small and lightweight method for independently measuring IBEX’s high-energy proton background, by integrating the flux of > ~ 14 keV protons over a ~7o conical FOV. The IBaM is part of the IBEX-Hi sensor and has a co-aligned look direction. This paper describes the principle of the IBaM and details its design and responses. In particular, we show th...

Conventional programs have a single stream of execution. Distributed programs expand on this notion, having multiple streams of execution that interact with each other. This expansion increases the complexity of a program's behavior. Existing program monitors do not provide enough information to deal with all of the problems of a distributed computing environment. This paper is concerned with t...