Computer Science / Engineering posts
- December 5, 2013
- 12:40 PM
- 13 views
Virtual Invisible Wall Can Stop Oil Spills
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Researchers at the University of Missouri are working on a new technology to stop oil spills, using something they call a virtual wall. This technique has already allowed scientists to confine oily liquids to a certain area, aiding the study of these complex molecules.... Read more »
Almeida R., & Kwon J.W. (2013) Virtual walls based on oil-repellent surfaces for low-surface-tension liquids. Langmuir, 29(4), 994-8. PMID: 23311883
- December 4, 2013
- 10:27 PM
- 21 views
Recent Publication: The Skin Microbiome in Health and Disease
by Geoffrey Hannigan in Prophage
A couple of days ago, Elizabeth Grice (my research advisor) and I had a review published in this month's issue of Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine...... Read more »
Hannigan GD, Grice EA. (2013) Microbial Ecology of the Skin in the Era of Metagenomics and Molecular Microbiology. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med. DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a015362
- December 4, 2013
- 04:04 PM
- 18 views
Exotic Drops May Help Create All-Liquid Battery
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Through the combination of water, oil and nanoparticle surfactants plus an external field water drops can be stabilized into non-equilibrium shapes that could find valuable uses as therapeutic delivery systems, biosensors, or possibly as the basis for an all-liquid battery.... Read more »
Cui M., Emrick T., & Russell T.P. (2013) Stabilizing liquid drops in nonequilibrium shapes by the interfacial jamming of nanoparticles. Science, 342(6157), 460-3. PMID: 24159042
- December 3, 2013
- 10:38 AM
- 27 views
Shapes of Things to Come
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
Featured article
Shapes of Things to Come: Exotic Shapes for Liquid Drops Have Many Possible Uses
Berkeley Lab
Reference paper
Stabilizing Liquid Drops in Nonequilibrium Shapes by the Interfacial Jamming of Nanoparticles
Science
Further reading
Polymer Scientists Jam Nanoparticles, Trapping Liquids into Useful Shapes
University of Massachusetts Amherst... Read more »
Cui M, Emrick T, & Russell TP. (2013) Stabilizing liquid drops in nonequilibrium shapes by the interfacial jamming of nanoparticles. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6157), 460-3. PMID: 24159042
- December 2, 2013
- 11:56 AM
- 52 views
Learning to see through semantics
by neuroecology in Neuroecology
Humans have a visual bias: everything in vision seems easy and natural to us, and it can seem a bit of a mystery why computers are so bad at it. But there is a reason such a massive chunk (about 30%) of cortex is devoted to it. It’s really hard! To do everything that it […]... Read more »
Frome A, Corrado GS, Shlens J, Bengio S, Dean J, Ranzato M, & Mikolov T. (2013) DeViSE: A Deep Visual-Semantic Embedding Model. NIPS. info:/
Dean T, Ruzon MA, Segal M, Shlens J, Vijayanarasimhan S, & Yagnik J. (2013) Fast, Accurate Detection of 100,000 Object Classes on a Single Machine. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2013.237
- November 30, 2013
- 05:00 AM
- 39 views
A baby porcupine and her apple | video | @GrrlScientist
by GrrlScientist in GrrlScientist
To celebrate caturday today, we check in with a baby pincushion, erm, porcupine, and her apple.... Read more »
Cho W. K., Ankrum J. A., Guo D., Chester S. A., Yang S. Y., Kashyap A., Campbell G. A., Wood R. J., Rijal R. K., & Karnik R. (2012) Microstructured barbs on the North American porcupine quill enable easy tissue penetration and difficult removal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(52), 21289-21294. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216441109
- November 21, 2013
- 05:13 AM
- 85 views
New Deep Brain Stimulation System Measures Neurotransmitter Release
by The Neurocritic in The Neurocritic
Wireless Instantaneous Neurotransmitter Concentration Sensing System (WINCS) Patient Module printed circuit board & sterilizable case. (Fig. 1, Kimble et al. 2009). Last month, the New York Times reported that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will spend $70 million to further the development of technologies that use deep brain stimulation (DBS), which has been highly successful in treating Parkinson's Disease (PD). The SUBNETS program (Systems-Based Neurotechnology........ Read more »
Chang SY, Kimble CJ, Kim I, Paek SB, Kressin KR, Boesche JB, Whitlock SV, Eaker DR, Kasasbeh A, Horne AE.... (2013) Development of the Mayo Investigational Neuromodulation Control System: toward a closed-loop electrochemical feedback system for deep brain stimulation. Journal of Neurosurgery. PMID: 24116724
Kimble CJ, Johnson DM, Winter BA, Whitlock SV, Kressin KR, Horne AE, Robinson JC, Bledsoe JM, Tye SJ, Chang SY.... (2009) Wireless Instantaneous Neurotransmitter Concentration Sensing System (WINCS) for intraoperative neurochemical monitoring. Conference proceedings: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society., 4856-9. PMID: 19963865
- November 19, 2013
- 08:11 AM
- 56 views
Electric Car With 4 Motors but No Transmission Under Development
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Junmin Wang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio State University, and his team are designing an unconventional four-wheel independently-actuated electric car.... Read more »
Rongrong Wang, Junmin Wang. (2013) Tire–road friction coefficient and tire cornering stiffness estimation based on longitudinal tire force difference generation. Control Engineering Practice, 21(1), 65-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2012.09.009
- November 18, 2013
- 02:26 PM
- 65 views
Researchers Create Better Transmitter Coils for Dynamic Wireless Charging
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new technology and techniques for dynamic wireless charging moving engineers closer to their goal of creating highway “stations” that can recharge electric vehicles wirelessly as the vehicles drive by.... Read more »
Lee, K., Pantic, Z., & Lukic, S. (2013) Reflexive Field Containment in Dynamic Inductive Power Transfer Systems. EEE Transactions on Power Electronics. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2287262
- November 3, 2013
- 10:21 AM
- 88 views
Tales of Neuro-Terror
by Neuroskeptic in Neuroskeptic_Discover
At this time of year, people are fond of telling scary tales – generally involving ghosts, ghouls, and other frightening creatures. Neuroscientists have their own horror stories, however – more niche, perhaps, but no less terrifying. Picture the scene: a group of PhD students are gathered around a flickering MRI console. The elder of the […]The post Tales of Neuro-Terror appeared first on Neuroskeptic.... Read more »
Gallichan D, Scholz J, Bartsch A, Behrens TE, Robson MD, & Miller KL. (2010) Addressing a systematic vibration artifact in diffusion-weighted MRI. Human brain mapping, 31(2), 193-202. PMID: 19603408
- October 30, 2013
- 04:00 PM
- 91 views
Serious Gaming, Serious Fun?
by Nura Rutten in United Academics
Serious gaming is big business. Many organizations – companies, schools, NGO’s – use games for training purposes, to engage customers, to advertise and to simulate important and critical situations. It is likely that you have been playing a game that was designed with the purpose of teaching you something, getting you to drink more milk or training your cooperative skills.
Researchers Liu, Li, and Santhanam have studied the way in which different digital games impact the beh........ Read more »
Liu, D., Li, X., & Santhanam, R. (2013) Digital Games and Beyond: What Happens When Players Compete?. MIS Quarterly. info:/
- October 30, 2013
- 09:33 AM
- 95 views
Video Tip of the Week: VectorEditor
For this week’s video tip of the week, I’ll give you a quick tour of the VectorEditor software. It’s a handy tool that you can install locally, or use on the web, to edit and display features of your DNA constructs. It’s got all of the key features that you might want–annotations, graphics, sequence, restriction […]... Read more »
Ham T. S., Dmytriv Z., Plahar H., Chen J., Hillson N. J., & Keasling J. D. (2012) Design, implementation and practice of JBEI-ICE: an open source biological part registry platform and tools. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(18). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks531
Wilson Mandy L., Hertzberg Russell, Adam Laura, & Peccoud Jean. (2011) A step-by-step introduction to rule-based design of synthetic genetic constructs using GenoCAD. Methods Enzymol., 173-188. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385120-8.00008-5
- October 29, 2013
- 09:51 AM
- 112 views
Hydrogel implant enables light-based communication with cells inside the body
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
Research enables development of novel therapies based on polymer hydrogel patches that are capable of supporting living cells and guiding light.These hydrogels are used to perform in-vivo optical sensing and therapy in living mice.
This post includes the original report of the Massachusetts General Hospital, links to the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and to the Harvard’s Medical School report, the reference paper from Nature Photonics and two quite exp........ Read more »
Myunghwan Choi, Jin Woo Choi, Seonghoon Kim, Sedat Nizamoglu, Sei Kwang Hahn, & Seok Hyun Yun. (2013) Light-guiding hydrogels for cell-based sensing and optogenetic synthesis in vivo. Nature Photonics. DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.278
- October 27, 2013
- 07:29 PM
- 104 views
Ordinary chemical with an extraordinary property to be used in quantum computation
by Usman Paracha in SayPeople
Main Point:
Researchers have reported that a common blue pigment, copper phthalocyanine (CuPc), could be used potentially in the making of quantum computer.
Published in:
Nature
Study Further:
Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc):
It is also known as Phthalocyanine Blue BN, Monastral blue and phthalo blue. It is a semiconductor and is similar to the light harvesting part of the chlorophyll molecule.
It is commonly used in paints and dyes. It is also used in the £5 note.
It ........ Read more »
Marc Warner et al. (2013) Potential for spin-based information processing in a thin-film molecular semiconductor. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature12597
- October 25, 2013
- 11:49 AM
- 118 views
Researchers Study Performance of Solar Panels in Cold Climate
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Despite the obvious idea of building solar farms in sunny places, the feasibility of solar energy projects in northern climates is also being studied. Michigan Technological University’s Keweenaw Research Center (KRC) is now a part of a two-year study that aims to gauge how snow affects solar panels’ power generation and determine the best ways to overcome any losses.... Read more »
Rob W. Andrews, Andrew Pollard, Joshua M. Pearce. (2013) The effects of snowfall on solar photovoltaic performance. Solar Energy, 84-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2013.02.014
- October 24, 2013
- 05:58 PM
- 103 views
Scientists Build ‘Impossible’ Silicon Supercapacitor
by dailyfusion in The Daily Fusion
Researchers at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville propose a novel silicon supercapacitor design. Such supercapacitor can be, theoretically, integrated into a silicon chip, opening some interesting options for energy storage.... Read more »
Oakes L, Westover A, Mares JW, Chatterjee S, Erwin WR, Bardhan R, Weiss SM, & Pint CL. (2013) Surface engineered porous silicon for stable, high performance electrochemical supercapacitors. Scientific Reports, 3020. PMID: 24145684
- October 20, 2013
- 10:07 AM
- 131 views
OpenCitations.net calls for help
by egonw in Chem-bla-ics
I don't think I mentioned this JISC project by David Shotton et al. yet, and should perhaps have done so earlier. But it is not too late, as Shotton is calling out for help in a Nature Comment this week (doi:10.1038/502295a). Now, I have been tracking what is citing the CDK literature using CiteUlike since 2010, and just asked the project developers how I can contribute this data.
Interestingly, the visualization from OpenCitations.net is interesting as it also shows papers citing papers t........ Read more »
D. Shotton. (2013) Publishing: Open citations. Nature, 502(7471), 295-297. info:/10.1038/502295a
- October 19, 2013
- 11:30 PM
- 119 views
Software through the lens of evolutionary biology
by Artem Kaznatcheev in Evolutionary Games Group
My preferred job title is ‘theorist’, but that is often too ambiguous in casual and non-academic conversation, so I often settle for ‘computer scientist’. Unfortunately, it seems that the overwhelming majority of people equate computer scientists to programmers or some general ‘tech person’, forgetting M.R. Fellows rallying cry: “Computer science is not about machines, in […]... Read more »
Schulte, E., Fry, Z. P., Fast, E., Weimer, W., & Forrest, S. (2013) Software Mutational Robustness. Journ. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. DOI: 10.1007/s10710-013-9195-8
- October 19, 2013
- 06:29 AM
- 176 views
The Selective Clearance of Senescent Cells – a Promising Target for Ageing
by Robert Seymour in NeuroFractal
When cells are put under stress (e.g. UV light, ionising radiation, reactive oxygen species) they undergo a process known as cellular senescence in which cell division (mitosis) is arrested. This is thought to contribute to ageing. In their 2013 paper Naylor and colleagues outline a strategy to selectively remove in vivo senescent cells expressing p16Ink4A .... Read more »
Naylor RM, Baker DJ, & van Deursen JM. (2013) Senescent cells: a novel therapeutic target for aging and age-related diseases . Clinical Pharmacology . DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2012.193
- October 16, 2013
- 05:08 AM
- 193 views
New insight into the Earth’s deep interior
by Perikis Livas in Tracing Knowledge
For 300 years we have known that the Earth’s magnetic field moves gradually westward. Computer simulations on the CSCS super-computer “Monte Rosa” by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Leeds explain why this happens.... Read more »
Livermore PW, Hollerbach R, & Jackson A. (2013) Electromagnetically driven westward drift and inner-core superrotation in Earth's core. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(40), 15914-15918. PMID: 24043841
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