Small form-factor piezoresistive MEMS sensors, often configured in a Wheatstone bridge, are widely used to measure physical signals such as pressure [1-3], temperature [4], force [1], and gas concentration. A common method to realize a digital output from the bridge involves biasing the bridge with a DC voltage source and using a low-noise amplifier followed by an ADC. While a bridge measuremen...

Vancomycin-tolerant Streptococcus pneumoniae is a growing problem among drug-resistant human pathogens. Some vancomycin-tolerant pneumococci have been reported to carry mutations in loci encoding a two-component regulatory system designated VncRS or in a proximal ABC transporter, Vex. A model was advanced proposing that the tolerance phenotype resulted from the inability of a vncS mutant to res...

The chapter analyses the invention and the form of the discourse on building conversion as one particular instance of redefining what a technology is and how it operates. I describe a shift from expert defined closure to lay based openness and tinkering as a shift from prototyping to 10 allotyping: Since the early 1970s, change of use and building conversion have become a central and fashionabl...

T paper introduces the results of implementing a medium size vehicle swarm of ultra-low complexity vehicles using the VEX robotic platform. The general goal of this swarm platform is autonomous navigation and sensing based on simple local interaction rules between agents which in turn gives rise to emergent behavior. One particular application focus is the detection of CBM contaminants in air, ...

The ATPase of the plasma membrane isolated from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe catalyses a medium Pi in equilibrium H2O exchange in the presence of Mg2+ and in the absence of ATP and ADP. (formula, see text) The Pi in the E.Pi species tumbles in the active site so that each of its oxygens has an equal probability of exchange with water. The partition coefficient (Pc = k2/k2 + k-1) is 0.45....

Let me begin by removing any suspense. I found this to be a very useful book in both argument and format, clearly written, systematic in approach and scope, full of good ideas and good practices. An integral strength of this work lies in the ways in which it presents actual-hypothetical cases not simply in the abstract but step-by-step consonant with actual—or at least preferred—practice. Longi...