One method of solving the governing equations of fluid flow about complex geometries is to use multi-zonal method. In this method the overall domain is divided into small number of simpler domains. In each zone, the flow field is solved independently of other zones. The boundary conditions for connecting zones are enforced to convey the necessary linkage. This multi – zonal procedure has been a...

A new method for the serological grouping of streptococci by coagglutination with specific antibodies absorbed to protein A-containing staphylococci has been assessed. A total of 242 strains of streptococci, including beta-haemolytic streptococci of groups A, B, C, F, and G, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Strep. faecalis were studied. All streptococci of groups A, B, C, and G, groupable by standa...

We describe a presentation content retrieval method involving the semantic ranking of target slides based on the relations between slides related to a user query. This method uses a conceptual structure of the conceptual relationship implicitly existing between keywords extracted from the slide text and the presentational structure of indents in the slide text. At present, many presentation fil...

The gauze-reinforced agar slab method introduced by Foster (1960) to assess environmental contamination was subjected to trial in the laboratory. In principle this method was sound but in our experience the gauzereinforced agar slabs were difficult to prepare and far from easy to manipulate. A modification of Foster's method involving the use of agar-layered slides has been developed and employ...

BACKGROUND A simple and rapid slide Polybrene method (SP) for pretransfusion compatibility testing is described. SP is particularly suitable for use in developing countries where, due to limited resources, centrifuges and biologic reagents may not be readily available. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS The original manual Polybrene method (MP) was modified for use on glass microscope slides, eliminati...

Multimodal alignment between classroom lecture utterances and lecture slide components is one of the crucial problems to realize a multimodal e-Learning application. This paper proposes the new method for the automatic alignment, and formulates the alignment as the integer linear programming (ILP) problem to maximize the score function which consists of three factors: the similarity score betwe...

A new method for the homology-based modeling of protein three-dimensional structures is proposed and evaluated. The alignment of a query sequence to a structural template produced by threading algorithms usually produces low-resolution molecular models. The proposed method attempts to improve these models. In the first stage, a high-coordination lattice approximation of the query protein fold i...

Elevating the reaction temperature is an effective method to accelerate protein enzymatic digestion because it can promote protein denaturation and enzyme activities. In this study, we demonstrated a new photothermal heating method to assist protein tryptic digestion on glass slides. A glass slide coated with layer-by-layer gold nanoparticles (Glass@AuNPs), combined with the use of a near infra...

This study was undertaken to evaluate the validity of a new modified dip-slide test kit for the estimation of salivary mutans streptococci, lactobacilli and Candida levels by comparison with the results obtained from conventional agar plate counts. Five milliliters of paraffin-stimulated saliva sample was collected from 118 6-12-year old children attending 4 primary schools in Thailand. Saliva ...

The raw data from a cDNA microarray experiment consist of pairs of image files. Pre-processsing steps such as image anlysis and normalization are required to extract reliable measures of the fluorescence intensities and allowed comparisons within and between slides. All images were processed by Spot with foreground seeds set to 5 pixels square. In addition, within and between slide normalizatio...