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TAPI: Touch-screen Authentication using Partitioned Images (2010)

Abstract—We describe and evaluate an alternative approach to a personal identification number (PIN) for small touch-screen devices named TAPI. TAPI replaces a 4-digit sequence with a sequence of 4 partitions of a selection of 16 images, increasing the possible combination of authentication sequences from 10 5 to over 10 7 but decreasing the screen space allocated to each possible selection. Across two user studies of TAPI in which 30 participants were randomly assigned authentication sequences, 90 % of participants were able to both remember and enter their authentication sequence after one week of non-use. Median sequence entry times were 4.6 seconds on a higher-resolution touch-screen device and 7.1 seconds on a lower-resolution device. Participants generally indicated that they were satisfied with the interaction and would consider adopting TAPI for everyday use. Design and other considerations are also discussed. Index Terms—computer security, user interface human factors U I.
A Decision Support System for Prioritizing Oil and Gas Exploration Activities (1990)

This paper describes a decision support system developed to prioritize oil and gas exploration activities. During each budgeting cycle, the exploration division of a major oil company must review a number of potential oil and gas plays, and assign personnel to the most promising ones. These personnel are teams of geologists and geophysicists who are responsible for the exploration activities on the site. The number of interesting plays always exceeded the available exploration budget and manpower, so management was concerned about the development of a consistent ranking system of oil and gas plays that could be used to guide the budgeting and manpower decision. The development of the ranking system was based on familiar concepts from decision theory, specifically, multiattribute models and the value of information. Linear approximations to more complex mathematical functions were developed to simplify the model. However, this system was designed to be used on a routine basis by personnel unfamiliar with these technical issues, so they were masked from the user. The successful implementation of the proposed decision support system is described.
Bacteriophage Therapy: Exploiting Smaller Fleas (2009)

Although bacteriophages have been used for the treatment of patients with bacterial infections in some regions of the world for >9 decades, adequate clinical trials of the safety and efficacy of the treatment have not been reported. The increasing problem of antibiotic resistance has, however, rekindled interest in this approach to therapy. Although potentially significant obstacles to systemic administration of phages exist, topical and oral administration of phages and/or phage products, such as lysins, are feasible in the short term. In addition to exploitation of the effects of native phages and phage products, bioengineering of phages will allow directed specificity and their use as delivery systems for antimicrobial and antivirulence molecules. This brief overview of the history and status of phage therapy, along with speculation about its future, provides a background for understanding of this imminent therapeutic modality.
Mechanical, Thermal, and Morphological Properties of Polylactic Acid/Linear Low Density Polyethylene Blends (2010)

Melt blending of polylactic acid (PLA) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) was performed to investigate the effects of LLDPE loadings on the morphology, mechanical and thermal properties of PLA/LLDPE blends. LLDPE was blended with PLA from 5—15 wt% and prepared by counterrotating twin-screw extruder followed by injection molding into test samples. The mechanical properties of the blends were assessed through tensile, flexural and impact testings while thermal properties were analyzed using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis. Scanning electron microscope was used to study the dispersion and particle size of LLDPE in PLA matrix. The impact strength of PLA improved by 53% with addition of 10 wt% LLDPE. However, the tensile modulus and strength, and elongation at break of PLA/LLDPE blends decreased with increasing weight ratio of LLDPE. Similarly, flexural modulus and strength also dropped with addition of LLDPE. DSC results showed that glass transition temperature (T g ) and crystallinity (X c ) of PLA increased with blending of LLDPE. The LLDPE particles size was seen to increase with increasing loadings of LLDPE which explains the unexpected decrease of impact strength after 10 wt%.
High‐oleic safflower oil. Stability and chemical modification (1967)

Abstract High‐oleic acid safflower oil has been shown to have high‐temperature oxidative stability comparable with that of hydrogenated vegetable oils. This stability, added to the ease of handling at low temperatures, should make the oil attractive as a commercial cooking oil. Epoxidation of the new safflower oil led to a product similar to epoxidized olive oil but lighter in color.
Restricting Temptations: Neural Mechanisms of Precommitment (2013)

Humans can resist temptations by exerting willpower, the effortful inhibition of impulses. But willpower can be disrupted by emotions and depleted over time. Luckily, humans can deploy alternative self-control strategies like precommitment, the voluntary restriction of access to temptations. Here, we examined the neural mechanisms of willpower and precommitment using fMRI. Behaviorally, precommitment facilitated choices for large delayed rewards, relative to willpower, especially in more impulsive individuals. While willpower was associated with activation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), posterior parietal cortex (PPC), and inferior frontal gyrus, precommitment engaged lateral frontopolar cortex (LFPC). During precommitment, LFPC showed increased functional connectivity with DLPFC and PPC, especially in more impulsive individuals, and the relationship between impulsivity and LFPC connectivity was mediated by value-related activation in ventromedial PFC. Our findings support a hierarchical model of self-control in which LFPC orchestrates precommitment by controlling action plans in more caudal prefrontal regions as a function of expected value.
A New Dirhodium(<scp>II</scp>) Carboxamidate Complex as a Chiral Lewis Acid Catalyst for Enantioselective Hetero‐Diels–Alder Reactions (2004)

Excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99 % ee) and turnover numbers (up to 48 000) were attained in the hetero-Diels–Alder reaction of a diverse range of aldehydes and activated dienes catalyzed by [Rh2(S-bptpi)4] (see scheme). Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2002/2004/z53821_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
Wall-layer structure and drag reduction (1985)

When drag-reducing additives are confined entirely to the linear sublayer of a turbulent channel flow of water, both the spanwise spacing and bursting rate of the wall-layer structure are the same as those for a water flow and there is no evidence of drag reduction. Drag reduction is measured downstream of the location where the additives injected into the sublayer begin to mix in significant quantities with the buffer region (10 < y+ < 100)The superscript + denotes a dimensionless quantity scaled with the kinematic viscosity ν and the wall shear velocity v* = (τw/ρ)½. of the channel flow. At streamwise locations where drag reduction does occur and where the injected fluid is not yet uniformly mixed with the channel flow, the dimensionless spanwise streak spacing increases and the average bursting rate decreases. The decrease in bursting rate is larger than the corresponding increase in streak spacing. The wall-layer structure is like the structure in the flow of a homogeneous, uniformly mixed, drag-reducing solution. Thus, the additives have a direct effect on the flow processes in the buffer region and the linear sublayer appears to have a passive role in the interaction of the inner and outer portions of a turbulent wall layer.
Progression in the Fountain Pen Approach: From 2D Writing to 3D Free‐Form Micro/Nanofabrication (2016)

The fountain pen approach, as a means for transferring materials to substrates, has shown numerous incarnations in recent years for creating 2D micro/nanopatterns and even generating 3D free-form nanostructures using a variety of material "inks". While the idea of filled reservoirs used to deliver material to a substrate via a capillary remains unchanged since antiquity, the advent of precise micromanipulation systems and functional material "inks" allows the extension of this mechanism to more high-tech applications. Herein, the recent growth in meniscus guided fountain pen approaches for benchtop micro/nanofabrication, which has occurred in the last decade, is discussed. Particular attention is given to the theory, equipment, and experimentation encompassing this unique direct writing approach. A detailed exploration of the diverse ink systems and functional device applications borne from this strategy is put forth to reveal its rapid expansion to a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines. As such, this informative review is provided for researchers considering adoption of this recent advancement of a familiar technology.
Molecular Characterization of Invasive and Noninvasive <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i> and <i>Campylobacter coli</i> Isolates (2001)

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most common causes of bacterial diarrhea worldwide and is the primary bacterial cause of food-borne illness. Adherence to and invasion of epithelial cells are the most important pathogenic mechanisms of Campylobacter diarrhea. Molecular characterization of invasive and noninvasive Campylobacter isolates from children with diarrhea and symptom-free children was performed by random amplified polymorphic DNA techniques (RAPD). A distinct RAPD profile with a DNA band of 1.6 kb was observed significantly more frequently among invasive (63%) than among noninvasive (16%) Campylobacter isolates (P = 0.000005). The 1.6-kb band was named the invasion-associated marker (IAM). Using specifically designed primers, a fragment of 518 bp of the iam locus was amplified in 85% of invasive and 20% of noninvasive strains (P = 0.0000000). Molecular typing with a PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism assay which amplified the entire iam locus showed a HindIII restriction fragment polymorphism pattern associated mainly with invasive strains. Although cluster analysis of the RAPD fingerprinting showed genetic diversity among strains, two main clusters were identified. Cluster I comprised significantly more pathogenic and invasive isolates, while cluster II grouped the majority of nonpathogenic, noninvasive isolates. These data indicate that most of the invasive Campylobacter strains could be differentiated from noninvasive isolates by RAPD analysis and PCR using specific primers that amplify a fragment of the iam locus.
Consequences of light reflection at the interface between two transparent media such that the angle of refraction is 45° (1978)

The reflection of light at the interface between two transparent, homogeneous and optically isotropic media such that the angle of refraction is 45° has the following interesting consequences: (i) the interface relfectivity for the parallel (p) polarization is the square of that for the perpendicular (s) polarization; (ii) the angular deviation of the propagation direction upon refraction is equal to the polarization (or ellipsometric) angle ψ and (iii) the complex reflection coefficient for the p polarization is stationary, in both magnitude and phase, with respect to small charges of the (refractive and/or absorptive) optical properties of either one or both media. Furthermore, it follows from (iii) that: (iv) reflectivity of the p polarization, considered as a function of the ratio of refractive indices of the two media, is at a maximum; and (v) changes of the absolute magnitude and absolute phase of the reflection coefficient for the s polarization, caused by small perturbations of the optical properties, can be measured directly by ellipsometry.
Inhibition by KF17837 of adenosine A<sub>2A</sub> receptor‐mediated modulation of striatal GABA and ACh release (1994)

1. The effect of the A2A adenosine receptor agonist, 2-p-(2-carboxyethyl)phenethyl-amino-5'-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (CGS 21680) on the potassium evoked release of [3H]-gamma-aminobutyric acid ([3H]-GABA) from nerve terminals derived from the caudate-putamen and the globus pallidus of the rat was compared. In both preparations CGS 21680 (1 nM) inhibited the [3H]-GABA release evoked by 15 mM KCl but had no effect on that evoked by 30 mM KCl. 2. The ability of CGS 21680 (1 nM) to inhibit the release of [3H]-GABA from striatal nerve terminals was unaffected by the presence of the GABA receptor antagonists, bicuculline (10 microM), phaclofen (100 microM) and 2-hydroxysaclofen (100 microM). Similarly the opioid receptor antagonist, naloxone (10 microM), the adenosine A1 receptor antagonist, 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine (DPCPX, 40 nM), and the cholinoceptor antagonists, mecamylamine (10 microM) and atropine (100 nM) had no effect on this inhibition. 3. The ability of CGS 21680 (0.1 nM) to stimulate the release of [3H]-acetylcholine ([3H]-ACh) from striatal nerve terminals was unaffected by the presence of bicuculline (10 microM), 2-hydroxysaclofen (100 microM), phaclofen (100 microM), naloxone (10 microM) and DPCPX (4 nM). 4. The novel A2A receptor antagonist, (E)-8-(3,4-dimethoxystyryl)-1,3-dipropyl-7-methylxanthine (KF 17837), blocked the CGS 21680 (1 nM)-induced inhibition of [3H]-GABA efflux with an EC50 of approximately 30 nM and also antagonized the CGS 21680 (0.1 nM)-induced stimulation of [3H]-ACh release with an EC50 of approximately 0.3 nM. 5. It is concluded that the A2A adenosine receptor is present on both GABAergic and cholinergic nerve terminals of the rat striatum and that in both the caudate-putamen and the globus pallidus this receptor inhibits [3H]-GABA release. No evidence was seen for a difference in the ligand binding sites of this receptor in the two groups of nerve terminals.
Synthesis of some pyridine and pyrimidine derivatives via Michael-Addition (2006)

Synthesis of pyridine and pyrimidine analogues 4 and 6-9 were achieved by Michael-addition of compounds containing either active methylene groups like, malononitrile , ethyl cyanoacetate and 1-tetralone or compounds containing active hydrogen atoms like, guanidine in the presence of an oxidizing agent and thiourea to 2-arylmethylidine-1-tetralone and 2-arylmethylidine-6-methoxy-1-tetralone (2) (enones). Addition of malononitrile in piperidine at room temperature to 2-amino-3-cyno-naphtho [1, 2-malonoitrile in sodium alkoxide or sodium hydroxide to 2 gave 4. Cyclization of 3a with acetic anhydride in the presence of conc. H2sO4 gave the naphtha-pyrano[2, 3-d]pyrimidin-8-one (5). Condensation of the pyrimidine thione derivatives 9 with chloroacetic acid gave the 3-oxobenzo[h]thiazoladino[2, 3-b]quinazoline derivatives (10), which were reacted through their active methylene groups with aromatic aldehydes to give the arylidine derivatives 11. These compounds were also prepared in one step by reacting 9 with chloroacetic acid and aromatic aldehydes. Condensation of 9 with 3-bromopropanoic acid gave 4-oxo-benzo[h]1, 3-thiazino[2, 3-b]quinazoline derivatives (12). The structures of the prepared compounds were mainly confirmed on the basis of spectroscopic methods. (author)
Simultaneous Optimization of Structure and Motion in Dynamic Scenes Using Unsynchronized Stereo Cameras (2007)

In this paper, we propose a simultaneous estimation method of structure and motion in dynamic scenes. Usual methods for obtaining structure and motion using stereo cameras require two kinds of operations: stereo correspondence and tracking. Therefore, we must separately determine the correspondence between stereo images and sequential images. This necessity complicates the algorithm and increases the possibility of mismatches because of the object's motion and visibility change in the images. Our proposed method makes two contributions. The first contribution is the method of corresponding all stereo images and sequential images at once. Therefore, we can obtain the structure and motion simultaneously and more accurately. On the other hand, most stereo correspondence algorithms are limited to use under a synchronized status. In a stereo rig using unsynchronized cameras, as are most commercially available cameras, the structure cannot be obtained by stereo correspondence and triangulation because of the unknown time offset between cameras. Therefore, our second contribution is a method of estimating structure, motion, and time offset simultaneously using unsynchronized stereo cameras. This latter task is accomplished by taking advantage of the first contribution scheme. Additionally, our method requires no preprocessing such as motion segmentation for separating identical-motion objects and advance calibration of the time offset. Finally, we present the experimental results using both synthetic and real images.
Korero: Facilitating Complex Referencing of Visual Materials in Asynchronous Discussion Interface (2018)

In asynchronous online discussions, users actively reference visual materials (e.g., video, document) to provide supporting evidence and additional context. However, creating and comprehending complex references can be challenging, especially when there are multiple referents to refer, or when a referent is highly specific (e.g., specific sentences in a paper rather than the paper as a whole). To identify users' challenges in making references with multiple and specific referents while using existing discussion tools, we conducted an observational study and a preliminary interview. Based on the design lessons, we built Korero, a discussion interface that aims to facilitate complex referencing actions. For evaluation, we compared Korero against conventional interfaces in two user studies with referencing tasks of different referential difficulty. We found that Korero not only significantly reduces the time and effort in making references with multiple and specific referents, but also shows potential in increasing users' engagement with the discussion and referent materials.
Transcriptional regulation of connective tissue growth factor by sphingosine 1‐phosphate in rat cultured mesangial cells (2005)

Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is induced by transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) via Smad activation in mesangial cells. We recently reported that sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) induces CTGF expression in rat cultured mesangial cells. However, the mechanism by which S1P induces CTGF expression is unknown. The present study revealed that S1P-induced CTGF expression is mediated via pertussis toxin-insensitive pathways, which are involved in the activation of small GTPases of the Rho family and protein kinase C. We also showed by luciferase reporter assays and chromatin immunoprecipitation that S1P induces CTGF expression via Smad activation as TGF-beta does.
Cocalibration of Four Large-Particle Impactors (1987)

Four high-flow rate impactor stages of a mobile, large-particle sampling system developed at the University of Florida have been calibrated by two independent laboratories. In addition to determining the particle collection efficiency characteristics of these single-stage, rectangular impactors, particle losses to the impactor walls were also quantified. Calibrated values of the impactors' Dp50 cutpoints by the two laboratories were found to agree within a few percent but differed significantly from those predicted by standard impactor theory. A dramatic difference between the large-particle collection characteristics of greased and glass-fiber filter impaction substrates was observed.
Patterning of the <i>C. elegans</i> 1° vulval lineage by RAS and Wnt pathways (2000)

In C. elegans, the descendants of the 1 degrees vulval precursor cell (VPC) establish a fixed spatial pattern of two different cell fates: E-F-F-E. The two inner granddaughters attach to the somatic gonadal anchor cell (AC) and generate four vulF cells, while the two outer granddaughters produce four vulE progeny. zmp-1::GFP, a molecular marker that distinguishes these two fates, is expressed in vulE cells, but not vulF cells. We demonstrate that a short-range AC signal is required to ensure that the pattern of vulE and vulF fates is properly established. In addition, signaling between the inner and outer 1 degrees VPC descendants, as well as intrinsic polarity of the 1 degrees VPC daughters, is involved in the asymmetric divisions of the 1 degrees VPC daughters and the proper orientation of the outcome. Finally, we provide evidence that RAS signaling is used during this new AC signaling event, while the Wnt receptor LIN-17 appears to mediate signaling between the inner and outer 1 degrees VPC descendants.
A Distributed Authentication Platform Architecture for Peer-to-Peer Applications (2005)

A distributed authentication platform (DAP) architecture is described that addresses the problems of fast user authentication and secure data transmission in large-scale ubiquitous networks. The user space is divided into domains, each containing an agent engine (AE), to enable rapid response to authentication requests. Dedicated channels are used for quick synchronization of the AE databases. Also described is a user-information-based model with QoS-ensured end-to-end secure-path setup. In this model, the user specifies the QoS requirement at the terminal, and the AE analyzes the information embedded in the control packet and initiates the signaling sequence to set up the path. This model is highly suitable for emerging peer-to-peer services, such as ensured-delivery e-mail, account information exchange, PDA file backup, and fixed-time data delivery. Evaluation of the AE performance demonstrated that the localization of authentication requests by using domains is an effective way of reducing the authentication processing time in a large-scale ubiquitous network. Simulated secure-path setup using three workstations demonstrated that a secure route satisfying such user specifications as priority, encryption, and bandwidth can be set up within 4.02 ms. much faster than with previous approaches.
<i>Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century</i> (1993)

A summary of the cold fusion fiasco, its history, claims, experimental questions, are presented in this book. The author gives in some detail good reasons why cold fusion has been disregarded by mainstream science. Disturbing questions about the behavior of scientific investigators and reactions to such events are raised.