In this paper INDIGO, an approach to infrastructures for digital libraries is presented. It fulfills two crucial requirements to digital libraries: scalability and the ability to handle newly evolving document types. Based on a classification of digital library architectures, the main reasons for limited scalability and extensibility of digital libraries are identified. To overcome the identifi...

Investigation of the properties of indigo carmine reveals that it may be more suitable than the dye, T-1824, for circulator}' studies that are now commonly carried out using the dye dilution principle of Stewart and Hamilton. Comparison is made of simultaneous dilution curves of indigo carmine and radioactive iodinated serum albumin. Apparently, indigo carmine is bound to protein firmly enough ...

Combination antibiotic therapies are being increasingly used in the clinic to enhance potency and counter drug resistance. However, the large search space of candidate drugs and dosage regimes makes the identification of effective combinations highly challenging. Here, we present a computational approach called INDIGO, which uses chemogenomics data to predict antibiotic combinations that intera...

BACKGROUND The next generation sequencing technologies substantially increased the throughput of microbial genome sequencing. To functionally annotate newly sequenced microbial genomes, a variety of experimental and computational methods are used. Integration of information from different sources is a powerful approach to enhance such annotation. Functional analysis of microbial genomes, necess...

textile industries use different chemicals in indigo dyeing processes. interest in eco-friendlyprocessing in the textile industry has recently increased because of a larger awareness of environmental issues. for the case of indigo dyeing process, the reducing agent conventionally used is the - environmentally unfavourable – sodium dithionite, which will be replaced in this study with an ecologi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of ultrasound-guided intratumoral indigo carmine injections for intraoperative localization of small head and neck tumors and to introduce our surgeon-performed technique. METHODS In total, 23 patients who had tumors ≤1.5 cm that were not palpable by 2 head and neck surgeons were enrolled in this prospective study. RESULTS...

The transformation of indole to indigo by microorganisms expressing styrene monooxygenase (SMO) has been studied. Styrene and indole are structurally very similar, and thus we looked at a variety of styrene-degrading strains for indole transformation to indigo. Two strains, Pseudomonas putida S12 and CA-3, gave a blue color on solid media when grown in the presence of indole. Indole induces its...

Distributed systems that consist of workstations connected by high performance interconnects ooer computational power comparable to moderate size parallel machines. Middleware like Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) or Distributed Shared Objects (DSO) attempts to improve the programmability of such hardware by presenting to application programmers interfaces similar to those ooered by shared memor...

In this paper, ZnBiSbO4 was synthesized by a solid-state reaction method for the first time. The structural and photocatalytic properties of ZnBiSbO4 had been characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscope and UV-visible spectrometer. ZnBiSbO4 crystallized with a pyroch...

The photophysics of indigo as well as of bispyrroleindigo, the basic chromophore of indigo, has been investigated with ab initio electronic-structure calculations. Vertical electronic excitation energies and excited-state potential-energy profiles have been calculated with the CASSCF, CASPT2 and CC2 methods. The calculations reveal that indigo and bispyrroleindigo undergo intramolecular single-...