From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 01 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!amgen!usenet From: John Philo Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: curve-fit/plotting software Date: Sat, 02 Mar 1996 15:02:05 -0800 Organization: Amgen Inc. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3138D36D.1DA2@amgen.com> References: <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) To: "Michael L. Doyle" Michael L. Doyle wrote: > > I am in search of a user friendly curve-fitting and data plotting > software program for PC. Would like to fit with MULTIPLE independent > variables (e.g., ligand concentration and temperature). Would also like > to be able to define parts of complex fitting functions on separate > lines. > > Any recommendations? Thanks much. > > Michael_L_Doyle@sbphrd.com Hello Michael, There are two programs that might meet your needs. The first is Microcal ORIGIN. I know you must have at least an older version of this since I know you have their calorimeter. You may be unaware that the more recent versions (current is 4.0) can handle fitting with multiple independent variables, and also allow the definition of a custom fitting function to occur on multiple lines. It is also possible to have ORIGIN use a fitting function which is generated by a compiled FORTRAN or C .dll file (but I have not done this myself). The other program you may want to look at is SCIENTIST from Micromath Software. I own a version of this, but only use it occasionally. I believe the more recent versions allow multiple independent variables, but I am not certain of that. Certainly it allows fitting functions to be spread over multiple lines. One of the nice (and I believe unique) things about SCIENTIST is that it will also fit directly to differential equations; i.e. it will handle situations such as complicated kinetic schemes where there is no closed-form solution. The graphs in SCIENTIST are not nearly as nice as ORIGIN's, however, in my opinion. John Philo, Protein Chemistry Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA jphilo@amgen.com --Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Amgen-- *** Disclaimer: These are the opinions of the poster not Amgen Inc.*** From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 02 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!gossip.pyramid.com!news.sedona.net!usenet From: Gene Rathbun Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Aerosol Engineers Date: 28 Feb 1996 11:40:17 GMT Organization: Sedona Internet Services, Inc. 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Box 2337 Sedona, AZ 86339-2337 * USA (520) 284-3360 Office (520)284-3361 FAX E-mail: rathbun@ sedona.net From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 03 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!csn!news-1.csn.net!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!taurus.fccc.edu!sauder From: sauder@castor.fccc.edu (John Michael Sauder) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: curve-fit/plotting software Date: 4 Mar 1996 17:27:14 GMT Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4hf95i$nka@taurus.fccc.edu> References: <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: castor.rm.fccc.edu In article <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> Michael_L_Doyle@sbphrd.com ("Michael L. Doyle") writes: >I am in search of a user friendly curve-fitting and data plotting >software program for PC. Would like to fit with MULTIPLE independent >variables (e.g., ligand concentration and temperature). Would also like >to be able to define parts of complex fitting functions on separate >lines. > You could try SigmaPlot by Jandel (http://www.jandel.com, I think). I think there's also something called PsiPlot that will allow you to do the same thing (you might be able to find an old pre-release version for free on the internet). Both of these programs allow you to define your own functions with multiple variables. For example, I often do fits with 3- or 4- exponentials. The case of 4-exponentials requires 9 parameters. -- -- Mike S. (M_Sauder@fccc.edu) www.fccc.edu/research/labs/roder/mike.html From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Mar 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!bioftp.unibas.ch!infobiogen.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: Rick Neubig Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: curve-fit/plotting software Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 11:51:11 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 20 Message-ID: <313C70FF.47B0@umich.edu> References: <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> <4hf95i$nka@taurus.fccc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: warbler.med.umich.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) John Michael Sauder wrote: > > In article <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> Michael_L_Doyle@sbphrd.com ("Michael L. Doyle") writes: > >I am in search of a user friendly curve-fitting and data plotting > >software program for PC. Would like to fit with MULTIPLE independent > >variables (e.g., ligand concentration and temperature). Would also like > >to be able to define parts of complex fitting functions on separate > >lines. > > > You could try SigmaPlot by Jandel (http://www.jandel.com, I think). I didn't think that Sigmaplot would do MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT variables. Will it really do that? RRN _________________________________________________________ Rick Neubig RNeubig@umich.edu Department of Pharmacology University of Michigan Phone (313) 763-3650 FAX (313) 763-4450 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rneubig/ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Mar 04 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU!RHODES From: RHODES@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: ultrapure water systems Date: 5 Mar 1996 10:51:50 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 23 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <960305.134854.EST.RHODES@UConnVM.UConn.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net ( Somewhere out there someone should set up a "consumer reports ) ( of scientific instrumentation" - if it already exists, please ) ( tell me where. ) I'm looking for experience-based information on ultrapure water systems. For example, I worked with an older model Barnstead system (RGW-5) that kept blowing out final-stage filters (at a couple hundred bucks per). I have seen the newer models, and they use a different filter system but I have no idea whether they work any better. bottom line...... IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS (GOOD OR BAD) ABOUT ULTRAPURE WATER SYSTEMS, PLEASE DROP ME A NOTE. I'LL POST THE AGGREGATE RESPONSES TO THIS GROUP. Thanks!! | O==O | | DAVID G. RHODES O==O PHONE 860-486-5413 | | SCHOOL OF PHARMACY; U-92 O==O FAX 860-486-1553 | | UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT O==O | | STORRS, CT 06269-2092 O==O RHODES@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU | | O==O | From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Mar 05 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!tmc.tulane.edu!clejan From: clejan@tmc.tulane.edu ("Clejan, Sanda") Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Unsubscribe Date: 6 Mar 1996 11:42:47 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 1 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Unsubscribe biophys.net.bio.net Sanda Clejan,Ph.D. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Mar 06 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunkie.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!news.interlink.net!Vir.com!not-for-mail From: demeler@selway.umt.edu (Borries Demeler) Newsgroups: bionet.immunology,bionet.microbiology,bionet.molbio.yeast,bionet.molecules.peptides,sci.bio.microbiology,sci.bio.misc,bionet.cellbiol,bionet.general,bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts,bionet.molbio.proteins,sci.bio.technology,bionet.biophysics,comp.infosystems.www.announce Subject: Announce WWW: Analytical Ultracentrifugation/XL-A Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc Date: 7 Mar 1996 01:50:38 -0500 Organization: University of Montana, Missoula Lines: 36 Sender: root@Vir.com Approved: www-announce@boutell.com Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4hkvfd$208@selway.umt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.vir.com Xref: biosci bionet.immunology:8113 bionet.microbiology:5215 bionet.molbio.yeast:4897 bionet.molecules.peptides:212 sci.bio.microbiology:2844 sci.bio.misc:2407 bionet.cellbiol:4248 bionet.general:20265 bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts:41443 bionet.molbio.proteins:7263 sci.bio.technology:4974 bionet.biophysics:1769 comp.infosystems.www.announce:14143 ANNOUNCING: Analytical Ultracentrifugation WWW Page We are pleased to announce the first WWW page dedicated to analytical ultracentrifugation with the Beckman XL-A analytical ultracentrifuge. The page has been developed at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dept. of Biochemistry, and can be found at: Contents include: -A searchable reference database -XL-A Sedimentation Analysis Software archive (PC/MAC/DEC/UNIX) -Searchable RASMB Mailing List Archives (RASMB: Reversibel Associations in Structural and Molecular Biology) -Bulletin Board with relevant conference announcements -Data Analysis Tutorial and Guide -Sample Data Analysis for several representative systems -Sample Preparation Guide In addition, information is provided for investigators desiring to perform analytical ultracentrifugation runs at the Departmental Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies through a collaborative or fee for service arrangement. Please visit often! Regards, -Borries Demeler ******************************************************************************* * Borries Demeler, Ph.D. * * The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio * * Dept. of Biochemistry, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78284-7760 * * Voice: (210) 567-6592 Fax: (210) 567-6595 Email: demeler@bioc02.uthscsa.edu * ******************************************************************************* From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 07 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!omnifest.uwm.edu!omnifest.uwm.edu!not-for-mail From: marjorie@omnifest.uwm.edu (Marjorie A. Lundquist) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Effects of Radiation On Daphnia Shrimp Date: 7 Mar 1996 19:31:41 -0600 Organization: Omnifest Lines: 3 Distribution: na Message-ID: <4ho2lt$c8u@omnifest.uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.70.58 What kind of radiation are you referring to? X-rays? Gamma rays? And in what circumstances? Daphnia shrimp dwell in water, and water would tend to shield against such radiation. -- Marjorie Lundquist From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 07 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!math.arizona.edu!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!hst1us.satlink.com!satlink!un1.satlink.com!speed!banana!banana!anibal From: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net (Anibal Aguirre) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: rf biological effect Date: Sun, 3 Mar 96 20:54:40 EST Message-ID: <2836uck60.alamito@banana.speed.satlink.net> Reply-To: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net Lines: 17 X-Newsreader: Alamito Mail and News Manager (V2.0.4 for Waffle) (unregistered) hi:i`1d like to know who or where i can find information abbout rf safety and it`s biological effects.?? i`m very interested in biological effects of RF radiations (1mhz-10 ghz). here nobody knows too much about this. fundamentally in 100mhz(aprox) band. thanks sincerly anibal. -- --- E-mail: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net Buenos Aires - Argentina From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 07 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!neubio.gov.ar!Postmaster From: Postmaster@neubio.gov.ar (Administrador del Nodo) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: rf biological effect: An ashaming banana! Date: 8 Mar 1996 14:14:02 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 47 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <776ch619@neubio.sld.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear co-netters, On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net (Anibal Aguirre) wrote: >hi:i`1d like to know who or where i can find information abbout rf safety >and it`s biological effects.?? >i`m very interested in biological effects of RF radiations (1mhz-10 ghz). >here nobody knows too much about this. >fundamentally in 100mhz(aprox) band. >thanks > > > > sincerly >anibal. >-- >--- >E-mail: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net >Buenos Aires - Argentina On answer, I can only say this: I AM MOST ASHAMED BY THE PRECEDING ASSERTS, PROBABLY FROM A STUDENT OR AMATEUR. OF COURSE HE IGNORES THE EXISTENCE OF THE EMF-BIO FORUM ON THIS SAME BIOSCI-SERVER, JUST AS HE ALSO IGNORES THE WORK DONE IN HIS SAME CITY AND ALSO THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA SERIES PUBLISHED BY THE DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (Of the World Health Organization in Geneva) TO START HIS SEARCHES. BESIDES HOPING THIS MENTION SATISFY HIS WISHES OF GETTING STARTED IN THE FIELD (AND LATER OF FOLLOWING UP BY CURRENT DATA RETRIEVAL MEANS) I ALSO HOPE TO DISAGGRAVIATE THE LOCAL COLLEAGUES OFFENDED BY THAT STUPEFACIENT POSTING (how much is "knowing too much", to treat all local researchers and scholars as incompetent, in order to ask internationally for introductory notices on how to obtain the data of the field?) (Certainly we are all ignorants, but fortunately we all do not ignore the same...) Cyberkisses for everybody! Mariela =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Prof. Mariela Szirko, Associate Editor, "Electroneurobiologia"; Centro de Investig. Neurobiologicas, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Argentine Republic; and Lab. of Electroneurobiological Res., Neuropsychiatric Hospital "Dr. Jose Tiburcio Borda", Municipality of Buenos Aires, Office: Phone/Fax (54 1) 306 -7314 e-mail Standard disclaimer: Las opiniones de este mensaje son personales y no comprometen las dependencias a cargo de la firmante Reply to THIS message, ONLY to: =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 07 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!crc-news.doc.ca!netfs.dnd.ca!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!taurus.fccc.edu!sauder From: sauder@castor.fccc.edu (John Michael Sauder) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: curve-fit/plotting software Date: 6 Mar 1996 15:51:02 GMT Organization: Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4hkc96$8v7@taurus.fccc.edu> References: <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> <4hf95i$nka@taurus.fccc.edu> <313C70FF.47B0@umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: castor.rm.fccc.edu >> >I am in search of a user friendly curve-fitting and data plotting >> >software program for PC. Would like to fit with MULTIPLE independent >> >variables (e.g., ligand concentration and temperature). Would also like >> >to be able to define parts of complex fitting functions on separate >> >lines. >> >> You could try SigmaPlot by Jandel (http://www.jandel.com, I think). > >I didn't think that Sigmaplot would do MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT variables. >Will it really do that? >RRN > An advertisement for SigmaPlot 3.0 says: ROBUST MULTIDIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR CURVE FITTING: 10 independent variables, 25 parameters, Piecewise continuous, multifunctional, weighted, and boolean functions I think you can also define parts of functions on separate lines. -- -- Mike S. (M_Sauder@fccc.edu) www.fccc.edu/research/labs/roder/mike.html From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 08 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!gateway!mail From: Conan McIntyre Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: rf biological effect: An ashaming banana! Date: 9 Mar 1996 04:33:33 GMT Organization: The University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada Lines: 12 Message-ID: <199603090433.XAA04510@mustang-a.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: julian.uwo.ca X-Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 23:33:29 -0500 (EST) Originator: daemon@julian.uwo.ca In article <776ch619@neubio.sld.ar> Administrador del Nodo wrote: > On answer, I can only say this: I AM MOST ASHAMED BY THE PRECEDING ASSERTS, >PROBABLY FROM A STUDENT OR AMATEUR. OF COURSE HE IGNORES.... Of course, you have also decided to ignore something: the carriage return. Critically yours, Conan McIntyre cmcintyr@mustang.uwo.ca From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 08 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!neubio.gov.ar!Postmaster From: Postmaster@neubio.gov.ar Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 8 Mar 1996 16:14:09 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 140 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <96Mar8.200426arg.13675@secyt.gov.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 16:29:47 ARG From: Administrador del Nodo Message-ID: <776ch619@neubio.sld.ar> X-Mailer: UUPC/PcCorreo 3.0 To: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net Subject: Su agraviante: Here nobody knows too much about this. Con copia, Sr. Secretario de Ciencia y Tecnologia de la Nacion, Sr. Presidente CONICET, Sr. Rector, UBA, Sr. Decano, Fac. Medicina, UBA, Sr. Decano, Fac. Cs. Exactas, UBA, Sr. Presidente, CNEA Sr. Secretario de Salud, MCBA Senor Anibal Aguirre (anibal@banana.speed): En la fecha Vd. transmitio por todo el mundo un mensaje electronico en mal ingles, vehiculizado por la red academica internacional de biofisica con direccion electronica biophys@net.bio.net, insultan- do a los cientificos argentinos que trabajamos en el pais y erosionando nuestros esfuerzos en evitar se nos siga creyendo retrogrados o cavernicolas. Con motivo de solicitar por esa red publica de Internet noticias sobre un tema academico general de biofisica, Vd., en vez de acudir a las instituciones internacio- nales apropiadas, o al foro de Internet sobre el tema especifico (campos electromagneticos en biologia), o incluso consultar las bases de datos que hoy tiene gratuitamente a su alcance en muchos lugares de Buenos Aires, eligio el camino mas comodo de que los investigadores dejen su trabajo y amablemente le expliquen como se componen esas noticias. Esa comodidad puede deberse a su carencia de idoneidad personal para transitar en el area, pero la pregunta que Vd. formula debe dirigirse a bibliotecarios. Alla Vd. si se trata de desconocimiento -supino y culposo, evi- dentemente, porque en Buenos Aires podia evacuarlo-, o si se trata de comodidad, o incluso de pura vagancia. Lo que debo repudiar, por gratuito e intolerable, no es su desconocimiento del tema, sino que notando su propia falta de formacion (ya que por ella pide noticias tan elementales e introductorias) se atreve Vd. a alar- dear de familiaridad con todos quienes en el pais tra- bajamos en el area, incluso con enormes sacrificios que obviamente Vd. ni se imagina, para rebajarnos in- ternacionalmente -lo cual es mucho mas facil que man- tenernos en la estima ganada con gran esfuerzo- infor- mado urbi et orbi que No le permito semejante juicio, para el que no tiene Vd. ningun fundamento, ni historico ni actual. Debo atribuirlo a un resentimiento por motivos que ignoro, quizas alguna disputa con algun bibliotecario (factible porque su consulta es demasiado general, y evidencia ajenidad al trabajo del area); a malicia por pura maldad contra quienes desconoce, retorci- miento y flagrante falta de prudencia. Por supuesto ya he enviado aclaraciones desagra- viantes a esa red, donde Vd. jamas ha participado -supongo, porque no tiene nivel para hacerlo- pero el dano ya esta hecho. Nunca sabre que gano con eso, pero no piense que dejare de hacer todo lo que este a mi alcance para prevenir que lo repita. Sepa que muchos en la Argentina rechazamos el "no te metas" y no asistiremos pasivos a una injuria gratui- ta en ese foro y con esa difusion mundial. Al par, pues, de repudiar su malhadada aseveracion, le manifiesto mi deseo de que emigre muy pronto. En el area trabajamos aqui unos cuantos repatriados y en el pais es preferible que seamos menos pero comprometidos con nuestra labor, a sumar difamado- res calumniosos que ademas necesitan que hasta los orienten en lo basico del area. No olvide llevarse su resentimiento o imprudencia cuando se vaya del pais, senor Anibal Aguirre. Academicamente suya, =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Prof. Mariela Szirko, Associate Editor, "Electroneurobiologia"; Centro de Investig. Neurobiologicas, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Argentine Republic; and Lab. of Electroneurobiological Res., Neuropsychiatric Hospital "Dr. Jose Tiburcio Borda", Municipality of Buenos Aires, Office: Phone/Fax (54 1) 306 -7314 e-mail Standard disclaimer: Las opiniones de este mensaje son personales y no comprometen las dependencias a cargo de la firmante Reply to THIS message, ONLY to: =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Antecedentes del tema (desarchivables en los Biosci-server, America y Europa-Asia): >hi:i`1d like to know who or where i can find information abbout rf safety >and it`s biological effects.?? >i`m very interested in biological effects of RF radiations (1mhz-10 ghz). >here nobody knows too much about this. >fundamentally in 100mhz(aprox) band. >thanks >sincerly >anibal. >E-mail: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net >Buenos Aires - Argentina Mi respuesta posteada en la red: >On answer, I can only say that I am most ashamed by the preceding >asserts, probably from a student or amateur. Of course, he ignores >the existence of the emf-bio forum on this same biosci-server, just as >he also ignores the work done in his same city and also the environ- >mental health criteria series published by the division of environmental >health (of the World Health Organization in Geneva) to start his searches. > >Besides hoping this mention satisfy his wishes of getting started in >the field (and later of following up by current data retrieval means), >I also hope to disaggraviate the local colleagues offended by that >stupefacient posting (how much is "knowing too much", to treat all >local researchers and scholars as incompetent, in order to ask interna- >tionally for introductory notices on how to obtain the data of the field?) > >(Certainly we are all ignorants, >but fortunately we all do not ignore the same...) > > Cyberkisses for everybody! > Mariela From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 08 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!neubio.gov.ar!Postmaster From: Postmaster@neubio.gov.ar Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 9 Mar 1996 10:02:02 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 45 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <96Mar9.145945arg.22799@secyt.gov.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Date: Sat, 09 Mar 96 14:57:57 ARG From: Administrador del Nodo Message-ID: <961ci160@neubio.sld.ar> X-Mailer: UUPC/PcCorreo 3.0 To: biophys@net.bio.net Subject: Perchance does it yield a bustrophedon? Hello, netters! Regarding another thread, Conan McIntyre wrote: >Of course, you have also decided to ignore something: the carriage return. > >Critically yours, >Conan McIntyre >cmcintyr@mustang.uwo.ca Dear Conan, It was nice that you mentioned it! To speed up writing messages, I directly edit the Spool of the mailing software, already containing a copy (made to be re-sent) of the originating mail. But I never saw my own messages on WWW. So I always was slightly afraid that the automatic line break on the receivers' screen could in some cases scramble writing. Does it perchance appear bustrophedonic? Best wishes! Mariela =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Prof. Mariela Szirko, Centro de Investig. Neurobiologicas, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Argentine Republic; and Lab. of Electroneurobiological Res., Neuropsychiatric Hospital "Dr. Jose Tiburcio Borda", Municipality of Buenos Aires, Office: Phone/Fax (54 1) 306 -7314 e-mail Standard disclaimer: Las opiniones de este mensaje son personales y no comprometen las dependencias a cargo de la firmante Reply to THIS message, ONLY to: =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 08 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!tmc.tulane.edu!clejan From: clejan@tmc.tulane.edu ("Clejan, Sanda") Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 9 Mar 1996 06:32:47 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Unsubscribe biophys.net.bio.net Sanda Clejan,Ph.D. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!hst1us.satlink.com!satlink!un1.satlink.com!speed!banana!banana!anibal From: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net (Anibal Aguirre) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: sorry Date: Tue, 5 Mar 96 05:29:02 EST Message-ID: <021dfcm60.alamito@banana.speed.satlink.net> Reply-To: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net Lines: 7 X-Newsreader: Alamito Mail and News Manager (V2.0.4 for Waffle) (unregistered) sorrry my fiends. -- --- E-mail: anibal@banana.speed.satlink.net Buenos Aires - Argentina From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: zamanlf@aol.com (Zamanlf) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: electromagnetics, brain waves and consciousness Date: 9 Mar 1996 19:21:28 -0500 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 38 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <4ht7a8$i9e@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: zamanlf@aol.com (Zamanlf) NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com A paper entitled Consciousness, Causality and the Faraday Law will be presented at the Toward a Science of Consciousness 1996 (Tucson II) conference to be held at Tucson, Arizona, April 8-13, 1996. The paper will present a new perspective and application of electromagnetic theory. According to this paper, the macrocopic electric and magnetic fields of electrophysiology, which to-date have been analyzed using only the static theory, also can be explained using the time-dependent theory. The paper will be available on the net after the conference: ABSTRACT. When the Faraday law in electromagnetic field theory is understood to specify an invariant cause and effect relationship between its dB/dt (time changing magnetic field) and curl E (induced electric field) terms, the Maxwell equations provide a causally inconsistent account of the abstract system composed of an ideal inductor driven by an ideal battery. The causal relationship between dB/dt and curl E in this simple system is shown to be consistent only after a term is included in Faraday’s law for magnetic current, which specifies an electrostatic source of curl. This analysis establishes a conceptual model of electromagnetic induction that can be applied to high-level bioelectromagnetic phenomena. In an ideal inductor model of the cerebral cortex, Faraday’s law governs a psychobiomagnetic dynamo that determines the spatiotemporal dynamics of EEG and MEG fields. The model suggests that what we consciously experience are brain electromagnetic waves. Viewed from a philosophical perspective, the model suggests that the electromagnetic force in biology may be causal at every level of biological organization. The epistemology of this viewpoint is that a completely logical understanding of electromagnetic induction may open the door to a general knowledge of the diverse causes and effects which characterize the living state of biological matter. Fred Zaman Neural Engineering Research and Development, Ogden Air Logistics Center/TISAD, Hill AFB, Utah 84056-5205 email: zamanf@software.hill.af.mil, or zamanlf@aol.com fax: 801-777-2203 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!torn!nott!crc-news.doc.ca!netfs.dnd.ca!ub!csn!news-1.csn.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!pasture.ecn.purdue.edu!bouraoui From: bouraoui@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Moez M Bouraoui) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Faculty position at Purdue Univ. Date: 10 Mar 1996 18:19:23 GMT Organization: Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 60 Message-ID: <4hv6fb$8c8@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pasture.ecn.purdue.edu P U R D U E U N I V E R S I T Y POSITION AVAILABLE ANNOUNCEMENT FOOD/BIOPROCESS/BIOLOGICAL ENGINEER POSITION: Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering RESPONSIBILITIES: Teaching undergraduate and graduate food process and biological engineering courses. Conduct fundamental and applied research in biological and food engineering. Develop research program which addresses adding value to products and co-products of food and biotechnology industries. Expected to develop innovative teaching and internationally prominent research program. The position provides substantial collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities. The position is an academic year, tenure track, teaching, and research appointment. QUALIFICATIONS: Earned doctorate in an engineering program with specialization in food, bioprocess, biochemical, or biological phenomena. CLOSING DATE FOR: April 1, 1996 or until position is filled APPLICATIONS MATERIALS: Letter of interest, resume, official academic transcripts, and names,addresses and phone numbers of three references. CONTACT: Address inquiries to: Professor Michael R. Ladisch, Chair of Search Committee Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department 1146 ABE Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1146 Phone: 317-494-1174 Fax: 317-496-1115 e-mail: isenberg@ecn.purdue.edu For further information see the Department's URL http:/abe:www.ecn.purdue.edu PURDUE UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER ---------- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!dsinc!ub!csn!news-1.csn.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!pasture.ecn.purdue.edu!bouraoui From: bouraoui@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Moez M Bouraoui) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Ph.D. fellowships Date: 10 Mar 1996 18:20:23 GMT Organization: Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4hv6h7$8fj@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pasture.ecn.purdue.edu Ph.D. FELLOWSHIPS AVAILABLE Ph.D. fellowships in Food Process Engineering, Food Science and Chemical Engineering with an annual stipend of $17,000 per year for three years. Current Program areas: Food Polymer Structure and Function Modeling of Transport Processes: Extrusion/Baking and Expansion/Drying Food Process Design and Process Management Optimization and Process Control The fellowships program will be administered through the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department; however students getting degrees in other programs are eligible to participate. OBJECTIVE The proposed program will allow for not only a high degree of interdisciplinary, collaborative research experience, combining fundamental biological sciences with traditional engineering principles; but also the flexibility to tailor the program of study to meet individual research interests and educational needs. Opportunities are available for industrial and inter-institutional collaboration exposure. RESEARCH PROGRAM Students will be required to take at least 48 credit hours of courses in the Biological and Food Sciences along with Engineering courses that emphasize chosen research area of food polymers, transport phenomena, process control, and process design. The uniqueness from this training will come from combining traditional engineering concepts with the biophysical sciences as a rational basis for food product and process design and development. Students will focus on challenges facing optimal design and operation of processes to convert cereals into finished products. QUALIFICATION GRE's (minimum 2000) Past performance (minimum 3.6/4.0) Three letters of recommendation Written statement of applicant's reason for having interest in graduate school APPLICATION Materials 1. Submit letter of intent, copies of transcripts and GRE scores 2. Provide a Statement of Purpose for Fellowship Study 3. Complete appropriate Graduate School and Departmental Admissions procedures CONTACT Dr. Martin R. Okos Purdue University 1146 Agricultural and Biological Engineering West Lafayette, IN 47907-1146 Phone: (317) 494-1211 E-mail: okos@ecn.purdue.edu From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 09 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.telalink.net!news From: RobertFly Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: amaxwell's reply to Ebola Virus query Date: 10 Mar 1996 04:51:17 GMT Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA Lines: 6 Message-ID: <4htn45$d1k@adam.telalink.net> References: <9601268253.AA825382749@ucsusa.ucsusa.org> <4gtv1m$a04@news.iastate.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nash-pm3-a9.telalink.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2 (Windows; U; 16bit) To: bfie19@mail.telalink.net I suggest Aaron L. Maxwell try out AltaVista's (TM) search engine for a good view on Ebola Virus. Can't do that in a small town library, ya know. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 10 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ns1.faseb.org!lamarck.sura.net!ra.nrl.navy.mil!news.math.psu.edu!chi-news.cic.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dra.com!news.getnet.com!usenet From: ppm Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Advanced Background Radiation Detection Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:35:50 -0800 Organization: GetNet, International, Inc. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <31447286.42A3@getnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phx-ip1-91.getnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Information about the first wristwatch that measures, detects, and counts radioactive Background Radiation as well as X-Rays. Alarm goes off when threshold is surpassed; displays constantly DOSE RATE in mrem/h and CUMULATIVE DOSE in mrem, recorded over 12 month period. See details: http://gn2.getnet.com/~ppm/ Professional Feed-Back appreciated. For detailed literature on YPERWATCH, please e-mail your MAILING ADDRESS. Hans Kurner From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Mar 11 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.emi.com!pauling.wadsworth.org!tivol From: tivol@news.wadsworth.org (William Tivol) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: (none) Date: 11 Mar 1996 22:42:59 GMT Organization: Wadsworth Center, NY Health Dept. Lines: 10 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i2a9j$ckc@pauling.wadsworth.org> References: <96Mar9.145945arg.22799@secyt.gov.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: alcor.wadsworth.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Postmaster@neubio.gov.ar wrote: : Subject: Perchance does it yield a bustrophedon? : Does it perchance appear bustrophedonic? Dear Mariela, No, I'm afraid that it does not. It would take a very cleaver .tihtrow eb ton dluow ti dna ,erutaef siht hsilpmocca ot margorp Yours, Bill Tivol From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Mon Mar 11 22:00:00 1996 Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Path: biosci!ns1.faseb.org!lamarck.sura.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nih-csl!postman From: Milton Werner Subject: structural biology postdoc available Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <1996Mar12.174003.18041@alw.nih.gov> To: mwerner@speck.niddk.nih.gov Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Nntp-Posting-Host: spain.niddk.nih.gov Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: National Institutes of Health Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 17:40:03 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c) X-Url: news: //newssrv.dcrt.nih.gov/bionet.biophysics Lines: 34 POST-DOCTORAL OPPORTUNITIES IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY Two postdoctoral positions are available to explore macromolecular inter- actions in the transcriptional regulation of development and in apoptosis. Individuals with a multi-disciplinary background in either molecular biology, biochemistry, protein chemistry or NMR spectroscopy or any combination of these are strongly encouraged to apply. Multi-disciplinary individuals are particularly strong candidates. The positions are within the Center for Protein Science, an interdisciplinary facility with state-of-the-art laboratory and computing facilities for research in structural biology, molecular biology and biochemistry, including 500MHz and 600MHz spectrometers equipped for multi-nuclear, multi-dimensional NMR. Interested parties can refer to Science, v. 271, 778-784 (1996) for information about the laboratory and its achievements. Appointments are for three to four years, fully funded and include subsidized housing across the street from the University on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Interested parties may apply to: Milton H. Werner, Ph.D. The Rockefeller University c/o Laboratory of Chemical Physics Building 5, Room B2-31 National Institutes of Health 5 Center Drive, MSC 0505 Bethesda, MD 20892-0505 301/496-2815 FAX: 301/496-0825 mwerner@speck.niddk.nih.gov Send C.V., copies of 2-3 recent papers and three letters of recommendation as well as summary of present and future interests. Appointments begin on or about 10/1/96. FAX submissions of application materials is desired. ~ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Mar 12 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!homer29.u.washington.edu!chaz From: Charles Stirling Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Lab Equipment Forsale Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:41:46 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Lines: 2 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: homer29.u.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: chaz See uwash forsale Mar 11, 96 charles Stirling From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Mar 13 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!unsw.edu.au!usenet From: Kristina Warton Newsgroups: bionet.cellbiol,bionet.immunology,bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts,bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.biophysics Subject: Isolation of nulcei Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:32:02 +0000 Organization: Centre for Immunology Lines: 11 Message-ID: <31482DE2.4BA1@cfi.unsw.EDU.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.94.200.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: biosci bionet.cellbiol:4301 bionet.immunology:8199 bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts:41798 bionet.molbio.proteins:7335 bionet.biophysics:1791 Hello, I'm looking for a protocol for isolating nuclei from cultured human and rodent cells. I'm after a protocol which does not use detergents, so that the membranes of the nuclear envelope remain intact. The protocols I have been using either leave most of the cells undisrupted, or cause the nuclei to clump. I'm worried that spinning clumps of nuclei through sucrose to purify them will not do anything towards removing the cell debris around individual nulcei. Any ideas ? From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 14 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ns1.faseb.org!lamarck.sura.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!psuvm!mxx102 Organization: Penn State University Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:38:14 EST From: Message-ID: <96075.143814MXX102@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: PCR using allele specific oligonucleotides as primers Lines: 6 MY question is reguarding the use of PCR to distinguish between two alles with only a single base pair change to differ from each other. I have three differne t plasmids differing by only one base pair. I have made oligos. specific for each and I have tried PCR. Iexpect to get productfrom only one primer if I use all three (separately) with samples. If anyone has advice, please send your re sponse to jaa133@email.psu.edu. Thanks. Jen From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 15 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!csn!news-1.csn.net!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!nntp.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!rcogate.rco.qc.ca!altitude!usenet From: Achim Recktenwald Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: curve-fit/plotting software Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:13:06 -0500 Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada Lines: 31 Message-ID: <314A15A2.983@cam.org> References: <9603012253.AA08082@phinet.sbphrd.com> <4hf95i$nka@taurus.fccc.edu> <313C70FF.47B0@umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dynamicppp-65.hip.cam.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Rick Neubig wrote: > [snip] > > I didn't think that Sigmaplot would do MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT variables. > Will it really do that? > I looked it up in the manual, Sigmaplot for Windows, version 3, Transforms & Nonlinear Regression, p. 7-3, chapter title "Nonlinear Regression Basics": "... The equations can contain up to 25 parameters and 10 independent variables. In addition to the equation and parameters, you can specify _constraints_; a maximum of 25 constraints can be used. You can also specify other special conditions, such as a maximum number of iterations amd a convergence tolerance value. To perform a _weighted_least_squares_ nonlinear regression, you can also identify a column in the worksheet as a weighting column." I hope this answers your question. Achim ________________________ Achim Recktenwald Montreal, Quebec, Canada From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 16 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!internet!biosci!not-for-mail From: biohelp (BIOSCI Administrator) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI Fundraising Update! Date: 17 Mar 1996 02:00:31 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 149 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199603171000.CAA06572@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I'm interrupting the usual monthly posting of the BIOSCI miniFAQ to bring you up to date on BIOSCI fundraising progress, a topic of concern to your future use of this resource. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this message carefully. Last year we announced that BIOSCI was going to adopt the U.S. Public Broadcasting System model to fund its operations after our DOE/NSF grant runs out later this year. Unlike PBS, we are not soliciting contributions from users; we are only selling ads on our Web pages solely to cover our operating costs. Our goal is to seek sponsorships until we build up an operating reserve of about $100,000 and then cease further promotions until we need to build the reserve back up. (The accountants among our readership will be familiar with the problem of deferred revenue which we can not safely utilize until ads have been displayed for a period of time.) We have three sponsors to date with a couple more pending. The process is time-consuming, however, and we need your help as explained further below. Our operating costs consist of our network connection, phone lines, hardware maintenance (we hope to have new and faster hardware soon!), plus 0.7 FTE of salaries covering UNIX systems admin, technical support, quality assurance, i.e., testing, of our system, and administrative costs (such as the time it takes to actually find/write/call potential sponsors and raise money!). Although the BIOSCI staff does get compensated for a portion of the work that they do, this project has always received a lot of free after-hours and "vacation" time labor, so we hope that no one will begrudge the time that we do charge to the project to serve you. All of the three part-time staff members, Dave Mack, Julie Lawrence, and myself, have full time day jobs and families in addition to working hard to keep this service running for all of you. Julie and Dave Mack are subcontractors for BIOSCI; my time that is charged to the project defrays a portion of my regular salary instead of adding to my income. Besides having to relocate the project, we were very busy this last year building new infrastructure such as our WWW hypermail interface to the system. This was released last December along with scores of WAIS indices for the newsgroups. Virtually everything is complete, although we do continue to find and fix bugs (many through your helpful feedback!). We are still having some problems with our WAIS indexing. The archives continue to grow rapidly. We are running over 100 indexes now versus three previously and any systems crashes cause greater havoc with the indexing than before! We are still working to fix this as fast as our resources permit and appreciate your patience, but we have been able to automate a lot of the infrastructure to reduce labor as compared to past requirements. We have also implemented new software to make moderation of BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups much easier and combat the growing problem of Internet junk mail and USENET "spamming." About 20% of our groups are now moderated, many of them by the BIOSCI staff! This, for example, made a major difference last year in the quality of content in our EMPLOYMENT/bionet.jobs.offered newsgroup which many commercial concerns and recruiting firms are using **without charge** to recruit candidates for positions in the biological sciences. We are also now in a position to have sponsors for individual newsgroups as you will have noticed if you have visited http://www.bio.net/ and clicked on "Access the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroups" recently. So, how can you help?? ---------------------- As noted above it can take a lot of time to contact potential sponsors if I have to do it all myself. Our request is quite simple. You can do two important things which will take very little time for you individually. First, please use our WWW system at http://www.bio.net/ to access the archives. You can now post or reply to messages via your Web browser. Your usage helps attract sponsors. If you contact any of our sponsors, please be sure to thank them for supporting BIOSCI. It is critical for them to get this feedback if they are to continue their sponsorship for the long term. Second, if you work for a company or organization that provides products or services of interest to the biology community, please pass this message on to your marketing or marketing communications department or other appropriate group. Please ask them to help support BIOSCI by sponsoring our Web site and explain the uses and benefits of the system to the biology community. If they are interested, they can then contact us for further information at our tech support address, biosci-help@net.bio.net. Our hope is to quickly raise several large corporate/institutional sponsors on our heavily-used WWW locations (some stats appended below), and then end this sponsorship campaign so that our resources can continue to be used for service provision, not fundraising. Many of our specialty newsgroup WWW archives are still used by small communities of scientists (and they haven't been heavily promoted yet). While these may be valuable niche markets to some advertisers, it will generate more labor and overhead having to find these sponsors, fairly price the locations, and deal with lots of smaller sponsorships than fewer mid-to large sponsors. We are striving to keep our operation as lean and efficient as possible since we are not trying to make careers out of running BIOSCI. We are trying if at all possible to avoid the administrative overhead entailed with processing lots of small payments to reach our fundraising goals. I'd like to thank all of you for your help in advance. In helping us, you are also helping yourselves, not only in keeping this resource available for all of the both large and small research communities that we serve, but also by alleviating the need for us to go back and compete with researchers for tight grant dollars! We promised NSF when we were awarded the BIOSCI grant that we would carry out this mission to make the service self-supporting. With your help, we will succeed in continuing BIOSCI's work into its second decade. Thank you very much! Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net A list of our prime WWW sponsorship locations follow. Statistics are for the four week period from 22 Jan. - 18 Feb. 1996 and usage continues to grow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The overall BIOSCI WWW pages are currently visited by users from close to 5000 unique computer hosts per week. Web servers only log the Internet computer/host name and frequently more than one individual can connect to us from a particular host. Main home page, http://www.bio.net, visited recently by about 2100 unique hosts per week Main Newsgroups archives page, http://www.bio.net/archives.html, visited recently by about 1200 Unique hosts per week BIO-JOURNALS archive page, http://www.bio.net/BIO-JOURNALS.html, visited recently by about 1000 unique hosts per week. EMPLOYMENT archive pages: http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/EMPLOYMENT/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 600 unique hosts per week. Address database search page, http://www.bio.net/addrsearch.html, visited recently by about 450 unique hosts per week. Methods newsgroup archive pages, http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/METHDS- REAGNTS/ and monthly header pages, visited recently by about 350 unique hosts per week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 16 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uib.no!nntp-bergen.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!news.uit.no!fagmed.uit.no!runes From: runes@fagmed.uit.no (Rune Sundset) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: detecting intracellular calcium Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:44:33 Organization: UiTø Lines: 5 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: mf15.imb.fm.uit.no X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] I would like to know if there is a protocol out there for staining intracellular calcium. Rune Sundset EMail: runes@fagmed.uit.no From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 17 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!library.ucla.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1.rad.net.id!rad.net.id!asconus1 From: asconus1@rad.net.id (asep) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Help with genetic experement with my kid. Date: 18 Mar 1996 12:03:14 GMT Organization: asco Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ijje2$rg9@news1.rad.net.id> Reply-To: asconus1@rad.net.id NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn1145a.dialin.rad.net.id In message <96075.143814MXX102@psuvm.psu.edu>, writes: >Path: news1.rad.net.id!news.sprintlink.net!news.neca.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.ps u.edu!news.cac.psu.edu!psuvm!mxx102 >Organization: Penn State University >Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:38:14 EST >From: >Message-ID: <96075.143814MXX102@psuvm.psu.edu> >Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics >Subject: PCR using allele specific oligonucleotides as primers >Lines: 6 > >MY question is reguarding the use of PCR to distinguish between two alles with >only a single base pair change to differ from each other. I have three differne >t plasmids differing by only one base pair. I have made oligos. specific for >each and I have tried PCR. Iexpect to get productfrom only one primer if I use > all three (separately) with samples. If anyone has advice, please send your re >sponse to jaa133@email.psu.edu. Thanks. > Jen From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 17 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!PHYSICS.RUTGERS.EDU!maljian From: maljian@PHYSICS.RUTGERS.EDU (maljian) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Tympanic Membrane. Date: 18 Mar 1996 14:39:48 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 9 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net This is Libby Maljian; I am a graduate student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers University. I wanted to ask if anyone knows the thickness of the tympanic membrane. Please send any replies to my email address. maljian@physics.rutgers.edu Thank you for your time. Libby Maljian From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Mar 19 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!leicester!usenet From: "Dr E. Buxbaum" Newsgroups: bionet.cellbiol,bionet.immunology,bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts,bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Isolation of nulcei Date: 18 Mar 1996 16:51:00 GMT Organization: University of Leicester, UK (PCFS User) Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4ik49k$924@ipgate.le.ac.uk> References: <31482DE2.4BA1@cfi.unsw.EDU.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc47.msb.le.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: biosci bionet.cellbiol:4333 bionet.immunology:8282 bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts:42063 bionet.molbio.proteins:7385 bionet.biophysics:1805 I once tried to break up cells by sonication. This left the nuclei morphologically intact, of course I don't know if they will still work with your experiment. In any case, you need only a few seconds at low power to break the cells open (best to work in an ice/water bath). From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Mar 20 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ict.sld.cu!ADOLFO From: ADOLFO@ict.sld.cu ("Adolfo Castillo") Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: (none) Date: 21 Mar 1996 11:39:38 -0800 Organization: Centro de Inmunologia Molecular Lines: 2 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <2921B50DF2@ict.sld.cu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Subscribe reagents-and-methods end From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Mar 20 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ns1.faseb.org!lamarck.sura.net!ra.nrl.navy.mil!news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!paris!bornberg From: bornberg@paris (0000-Admin(0000)) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: PSB97-call for papers: Biopolymer Evolution Date: 21 Mar 1996 14:37:53 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Lines: 60 Message-ID: <4irpk1$m46@news.BelWue.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.inet.dkfz-heidelberg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Conference Announcement And Call for Papers BIOPOLYMER STRUCTURES: WHERE DO THEY COME FROM? WHERE ARE THEY GOING? EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON BIOPOLYMER STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION A Seminar Track in the Second Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing January 6-9, 1997 Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii info at: http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/tbi/people/bornberg/psb2/eop.html Biological macromolecules are the result of eons of evolution. In order to understand these macromolecules, it is necessary to understand the evolutionary pressures that determined their current form. Conversely, the properties of these macromolecules encode this heritage, and can provide insight into the process of evolution. The effort to understand, reconstruct and simulate the evolution of biopolymers, including their structure and function, has become a key task involving such diverse fields as evolutionary biology, molecular biology, structural biology, biophysical chemistry, and bio-informatics. This track, part of the Second Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, invites scientists from related disciplines to present original papers that discuss new techniques, theories, insights and approaches for understanding the evolution of biopolymers. We welcome papers describing results from a wide range of possible methodologies, including analyses of the databases of biomolecular sequences and structures, simple conceptual and computational evolutionary models, and computational perspectives on experimental results. DEADLINES Submission of Full Papers: July 1 Notification of Acceptances: August 22 Camera ready copy due: September 15 Conference: January 6-9, 1997 Further Information concerning possible topics, literature and organisation of the conference can be obtained from the web: http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/tbi/people/bornberg/psb2/eop.html For questions about the symposium track and about possible manuscript submissions, please contact the track organizers: Erich Bornberg-Bauer, German Cancer Research Center Tel.: (+49 - 62 21) 42 - 27 25 Fax.: (+49 - 62 21) 42 - 28 49 email: bornberg@dkfz-heidelberg.de , erich@santafe.edu Richard A. Goldstein, University of Michigan tel: (+1 - 313) 763 - 80 13 fax: (+1 - 313) 747 - 48 65 email: richardg@chem.lsa.umich.edu For general questions about the conference, contact the conference coordinator: Sharon Surles, IS, Inc., phone: +1 (619) 658-9782 fax: +1 (619) 658-9463 email: psb@intsim.com url: http://cgl.ucsf.edu/psb/psb.html From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: klein@cgl.ucsf.EDU (Teri Klein) Newsgroups: bionet.annouce,bionet.biophysics,bionet.general,bionet.molec-model Subject: Modern Concepts in Macromolecular Modeling (Call for Papers) Date: 21 Mar 1996 19:37:24 -0800 Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, UCSF Lines: 142 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ipik3$io8@cgl.ucsf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1809 bionet.general:20625 bionet.molec-model:869 Call for Papers Modern Concepts in Macromolecular Modeling Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (http://cgl.ucsf.edu/psb) Ritz-Carlton Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii January 6-9, 1997 Co-chairs Chairs: Jurgen Bajorath, Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Institute Teri E. Klein, University of California, San Francisco The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-97) is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. We are currently soliciting manuscripts for a highly interactive workshop-like session "Modern Concepts in Macromolecular Modeling" and/or abstracts for an accompanying poster session. The session will assess state-of-the-art approaches in the area of macromolecular modeling, in particular protein modeling, to highlight their opportunities, caveats, and limitations. Contributions which introduce or illustrate novel computational methods and which present contemporary applications are equally encouraged. Scientific focal points include: * the development and application of various energy functions for - analysis of the energetics and dynamics of macromolecular structures and their interactions - protein fold recognition - ab initio folding of proteins on the computer - evaluation and assessment of molecular models * techniques to construct protein models in the presence of "twilight zone" sequence similarities such as - analysis of multiple sequences and/or structures - generation of sequence-structure alignments - interactive or automated computer modeling programs Scientific context: While the use of predictive methods to generate and analyze three-dimensional models is increasing, the objectives of such modeling and the problems involved are changing. Classical homology modeling on the basis of significant sequence similarity has more or less introduced macromolecular modeling at times when only a rather limited number of experimentally determined protein structures were available. The scenario has changed dramatically. Many more structures have been determined, and it is a significant task in itself to compare, analyze, and classify these structures. It has become possible to study many intra- and intermolecular interactions in detail, and much effort is currently being spent to understand such interactions in more quantitative energetic terms; be it on the basis of various (free) energy calculations or automated docking procedures. Implications of these studies for drug or protein design are evident. Sequence databases grow at even much faster pace than structural databases, and this is considered a major reason for the increasing interest in modeling. However, popular targets of protein modeling attempts often display, if at all, low or barely detectable sequence similarities to known structures. In these cases, it is difficult to establish structural relationships, even if they exist, and to identify structural templates for modeling. The advent of inverse folding and fold recognition methods has changed the approach to some of these problems. Nevertheless, to apply the results of a fold recognition study, to generate a precise and global sequence-structure alignment, and to actually build a model remains difficult and still requires many subjective decisions. In parallel to novel structure-based or comparative approaches, computational ab initio folding of (small) proteins is, for the first time, successfully performed, albeit at still limited resolution. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS PSB '97 will publish peer-reviewed full papers in an archival proceedings. Each accepted paper will be allocated 12 pages in the proceedings volume. Manuscripts adhering to the guidelines set forth on the the PSB web pages will be accepted. Full papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for journal publication. Once accepted to the conference, a paper may be submitted for journal publication. Each manuscript will be refereed by at least four reviewers. Due dates -------------- May 15, 1996 300 word abstract to bajorath@protos.bms.com June 15, 1996 Five copies of the manuscript August 15, 1996 Notification of accepted papers September 15, 1996 Accepted camera ready manuscripts Five copies of all full papers must be submitted to: PSB-97 c/o Section on Medical Informatics Stanford University Medical School, MSOB X215 Stanford, CA 94305-5479 USA Authors who do not wish to submit a full paper are welcome to submit 1-2 page abstract adhering to the guidelines set forth on the PSB web pages, which will be distributed at the meeting separately from the archival proceedings. Due dates -------------- May 15, 1996 300 word abstract to bajorath@protos.bms.com August 15, 1996 Notification of accepted abstract/poster September 15, 1996 Accepted camera ready abstract Please send abstracts and questions regarding this session to: Jurgen Bajorath Bristol-Myers Squibb Res. Inst. 3005 First Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 bajorath@protos.bms.com klein@cgl.ucsf.edu Tel (206) 727-3612 Fax (206) 727-3602 For more information on the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, please see our web site at http://cgl.ucsf.edu/psb or contact: Ms. Sharon Surles PSB Coordinator Interactive Simulations, Inc. 5330 Carroll Canyon Road, Suite 203 San Diego, CA 92121 psb@intsim.com Phone: +1 (619) 658-9782 FAX: +1 (619) 658-9463 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!daresbury!not-for-mail From: Alexander Spirov Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: GAME OF MORPHOGENESIS: PATTERN-FORM INTERPLAY MODELS Date: 22 Mar 1996 12:59:24 -0000 Lines: 83 Sender: lpddist@mserv1.dl.ac.uk Distribution: bionet Message-ID: <4iu87c$496@mserv1.dl.ac.uk> Encoding: 82 TEXT Original-To: "'bionet.info-theory'" , "'bionet.biophysics'" , "'bionet.biology.computational'" , "'bionet.molbio.evolution'" This announcement is being cross-posted to several newsgroups. Please, excuse the duplication. Dear All, The following paper is now available as ZIP-compressed PostScript file via anonymous ftp from: ftp://ftp.iephb.ru/pub/spirov/morphogame.zip and on my WWW server as HTML Pages: URL: http://avs.iephb.ru/morpho.html Interactively: ftp ftp.iephb.ru login: anonymous Password: cd pub/spirov binary get morphogame.zip quit The pub/spirov/index file contains an index of the other files. These materials was accepted for oral presentation at ALife V Conference (Nara, Japan, 16-18 May 1996). Any comments and criticisms are most welcome. Title: "GAME OF MORPHOGENESIS: PATTERN-FORM INTERPLAY MODELS" Author: Alexander V. Spirov ABSTRACT Nowadays morphogenesis becomes commonly used term not only in biology but in the field of evolutionary computations also. The aim to deciphering or design set of rules that will themselves self-organize to produce Form, attracts both theoretical biologists and computer scientists. However, biological generalization of morphogenesis include such basic principles as pattern-form interplay and regulativity. The problem of how the information coded in linear DNA molecule becomes translated into a three-dimensional form we treat with position of "Game of Morphogenesis": Pattern-Form Interplay Models. The characteristic feature of the models is feedback loop from (bio)chemical pattern formation to modeling embryo form changes. The system is open and pattern changes give rise to changes in form, these changes in form (surface geometry) cause further pattern changes, and so on. In frames of A-Life strategy we asking how do we imagine it could have happened, but trying to approach as closely as possible to the strategies employed by actual living organisms. Potentiality of approach is demonstrated by simulation of early morphogenesis of sea urchin embryo, as well as curvature-increasing model for epithelial lobules formation. Revealed moduses of the model behavior are the simplest ones and just these moduses are realized in the early development. Taking into account the simplicity and universalism of the model, the obtained results may bring in evidence that there is a small biological specificness of the early embryo morphogenesis and that the prevalence of synergetic specificness of this process do exist. By regulation biologists mean the ability of developing organisms to regulate their pattern to their size. Apparently it is one of the most striking properties of living organisms. In conclusion, we discussing perspectives to explore schemes for regulative morphogenesis in evolutionary simulations. KEYWORDS: morphogenesis, pattern and form, morphogenesis modeling, pattern-form interplay, size regulations, artificial morphogenesis. (15 pages, 18 color illus.) Alexander V.Spirov (PhD) I.M.Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology & Biochemistry, S.-Petersburg, Russia phone/fax +7 (812)552 3219; fax + 7 (812)552-3012 WWW http://avs.iephb.ru Spirov@iephb.ru From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!hpbio1.Biologie.HU-Berlin.de!richter From: richter@hpbio1.Biologie.HU-Berlin.de (Stefan Richter) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: pK - Value for DIDS Date: 22 Mar 1996 11:20:30 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4iu2du$nqq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: hpbio1.biologie.hu-berlin.de Can anybody tell me, or tell me how to find out the pK values of the substance DIDS (4,4'-Diisothiocyanato-stilben-2,2'-disulfonic acid) also called 2,2'-(1,2-ethenediyl)bis[5-isothiocyanato-benzene sulfonic acid] the Struktur is: S=C=N | Ph-SO3- | C=C | Ph-SO3- | S=C=N I called Sigma, but they couldn't tell me. I also can't find it in Beilstein? Does anybody know where to look? (This substance is often used in membrane transport studies to block anion pathways) Thanks for help Stefan Richter -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++| | Humboldt University Berlin (HUB) || | Institute for Biology, FB Biophysics || | Invalidenstr. 42, D-10115 Berlin (Germany) || |+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|| | Stefan Richter || | TEL.: (++49) 030-2897 2452 FAX: (++49) 030-2897 2520 || | EMAIL: richter@hpbio1.biologie.hu-berlin.de || ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 21 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: Gordon.Filby@pef.fzk.de (Gordon Filby) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.software,sci.engr.biomed,sci.med.informatics Subject: Spreadsheet book Date: 21 Mar 1996 19:48:35 -0800 Organization: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Lines: 26 Sender: biohelp@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4irm1d$5f4@hdihp3.fzk.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1810 bionet.software:15041 sci.engr.biomed:5706 sci.med.informatics:5601 WANTED: Chapter contributor for book on Spreadsheets in Science and Engineering Hallo, For a book with the above title to be published this year by Springer I'm looking for a biochemist with proven skills in the use of Spreadsheets (preferably Excel) in his/her discipline to prepare a chapter. Last submission date December 1996. Further details on request. Best Regards, Gordon Filby Abtlg. PEF Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany e-mail: Gordon.Filby@pef.fzk.de Tel. 07247-82-5193 FAX: 07247-82-3929 From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 22 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news1.digital.com!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!nntp.coast.net!news1.agis.net!agis!news.getnet.com!usenet From: ppm Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Personal Exposure Doses Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 09:00:09 -0800 Organization: GetNet, International, Inc. Lines: 6 Message-ID: <31542E19.75B6@getnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: phx-ip2-101.getnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) Radiation exposure doses can now be measured, detected and counted with a wristwatch. See: http://gn2.getnet.com/~ppm/ Need professional feed-backs. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 23 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!news.Stanford.EDU!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!dialin-5.admin.ogi.edu!user From: sathyam@eeap.ogi.edu (ujwal sathyam) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Resume - Biomedical Engr/Scientist Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:38:25 -0800 Organization: oregon medical laser center Lines: 130 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-5.admin.ogi.edu UJWAL SATHYAM 6320 SW Lombard Street, Apartment 34 Beaverton, OR 97008 Home: (503) 644-3201 Work: (503) 291-2109 or (503) 291-4093 Fax: (503) 291-2422 e-mail: sathyam@eeap.ogi.edu ujwal_sathyam@phsor.org OBJECTIVE: A challenging career in research and development of non-invasive techniques for medical diagnosis and therapy SUMMARY: Three years of experience in experimental and theoretical research of laser applications in medicine. Strong background in electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, and computer programming. Medical background includes human anatomy and physiology, and participation in animal trials. EXPERIENCE: 1992 - present Research Assistant, Oregon Medical Laser Center SKILLS: Biomedical Engineering: 1. Practical experience with a variety of medical lasers from UV - IR. 2. Design of bench-top experiments to simulate invivo situations. 3. Remote temperature sensing using infrared radiometry. 4. Basic investigations of laser ablation of tissue. 5. Theoretical modeling of light transport in tissue. 6. Spectrophotometric measurement of chromophore levels. 7. Measurement of optical properties of tissue. 8. Light delivery with optical fibers and catheters. 9. Good wet lab skills. 10. Participation in animal trials. 11. Graduate level courses in human anatomy and physiology. Electrical Engineering: 1. Signal processing techniques in frequency and time domains. 2. Design and analysis of analog and digital electronic circuits. 3. Extensive lab skills with optical and electronic equipment. 4. Design and alignment of optical systems. 5. Modeling of physical processes during laser-tissue interaction. 6. Modeling of stochastic processes, Monte Carlo methods. 7. Image acquisition of high-speed phenomena. 8. Familiar with LABVIEW software. Computer Skills: 1. Programming languages: Pascal, C, Fortran. 2. Environments: Mac-OS, Unix, Windows, DOS. EDUCATION: Presently in Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering. Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, Portland, OR. Expected Graduation: July 1996. M.S., Electrical Engineering. Oregon Graduate Institute, July 1994. Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communications. Mangalore University, India, June 1992. RESEARCH: Laser thrombolysis: Jan.93 - present Conducted basic research into the mechanism of laser-assisted arterial recanalization. Optimized laser parameters and identified principal ablation mechanism. Assisted in animal trials. Procedure is in clinical trials phase. Non-invasive detection of structures in human skin: July 95 - Dec.95 Investigated a technique to non-invasively detect structures embedded in inhomogeneous tissue based on measurement of changes in surface temperature. Modeling of light transport in tissue: July 95 - present Evaluating the applicability of the diffusion approximation to predict optical penetration depth in tissue. Speech recognition: Aug.91 - May 92, Mangalore University, India Implemented a voice command recognition system to recognize spoken passwords based on end-point location and minimum prediction residual principle. Modeling Experience: Implemented a Monte Carlo algorithm to describe light transport in turbid tissue (C). Wrote code to determine optical properties of tissue from surface temperature measurements (PASCAL). Implemented an algorithm to predict internal temperature distribution following laser irradiation (PASCAL). OTHER SKILLS: 1. Experienced at authoring and reviewing technical papers and grants. 2. Speak, read, and write German. AFFILIATIONS: Optical Society of America REFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS PROVIDED ON REQUEST From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 23 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!baker From: baker@iastate.edu (Wayne R. Baker) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: pK - Value for DIDS Date: 24 Mar 1996 21:16:08 GMT Organization: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Iowa State University Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4j4e2o$pja@news.iastate.edu> References: <4iu2du$nqq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: pv0a0b.vincent.iastate.edu In bionet.biophysics, Stefan Richter wrote :Can anybody tell me, or tell me how to find out the pK values of the :substance DIDS (4,4'-Diisothiocyanato-stilben-2,2'-disulfonic acid) :also called 2,2'-(1,2-ethenediyl)bis[5-isothiocyanato-benzene sulfonic :acid] the Struktur is: : : S=C=N : | : Ph-SO3- : | : C=C : | : Ph-SO3- : | : S=C=N : :I called Sigma, but they couldn't tell me. I also can't find it in Beilstein? :Does anybody know where to look? :(This substance is often used in membrane transport studies to block anion :pathways) I found its CAS number in the Fluka catalogue: 67483-13-0. That might help you find another ref. Since it isn't cheap, I guess telling you to do the actual titration isn't a good idea. :-) Since benzenesulfonic acid has a pKa < 1; DIDS is listed as hygroscopic (so presumably water soluble); and there are a few more resonance structures available for DIDS, I'd bet that its pKa is also extremely low. I doubt that you'd use it at a pH where any significant portion would still be protonated. -- Wayne Baker (baker@iastate.edu) He who has a why to live for 4288 Molecular Biology Building can bear almost any how. Iowa State University --Nietzsche From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 24 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!usenet From: "Jack Linehan, Ph.D." Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.jobs,sci.engr.biomed,sci.image.processing Subject: Faculty Position, Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University Date: 25 Mar 1996 17:49:42 GMT Organization: Marquette University, Biomedical Engineering Lines: 51 Message-ID: <4j6mbm$6i2@spool.mu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: biomed2.bioeng.mu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1816 sci.engr.biomed:5739 sci.image.processing:19125 Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin have received a Whitaker Foundation Special Opportunity Award to establish a joint Ph.D. program in functional imaging. As part of the initiation of this program, Marquette has available a new tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Functional Imaging, as a means of simultaneously quantifying the structural and functional aspects of a biological system, is emerging as a new interdisciplinary activity of particular interest to biomedical engineers. Candidates for the position should have a Ph.D., preferably in biomedical engineering, and demonstrated research activity in functional imaging. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to teach undergraduate and graduate-level imaging courses and develop funded, independent research. As the result of a grant from the Keck Foundation, a new x-ray microfocal angiography laboratory is being developed which will provide for unique opportunities for studying soft tissue organ function with unprecedented high levels of resolution. The ideal candidate will have experience appropriate to microfocal angiography (for example, experience in the acquisition, processing, analysis, and display of tomographic and microscopic images) and interest in collaborating with multi-disciplinary team of investigators. Marquette University,the largest independent institution of higher learning in Wisconsin, is located on a campus in the heart of Milwaukee. For more than three decades, Marquette has had an active graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. Presently, there are about 59 graduate students in the Master's and Doctoral programs. The ABET accredited undergraduate program has about 250 undergraduate students in the bioelectronics and biomechanics tracks. Research is conducted not only on Marquette's campus but also in closely affiliated laboratories at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Applications will be accepted until May 1. Submit a short statement delineating career goals, a curriculum vitae, and the names of references to: John H. Linehan, Ph.D. Bagozzi Professor and Chair Department of Biomedical Engineering Marquette University Post Office Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 (414)288-3375 Fax: (414)288-1578 Email address: linehanj@vms.csd.mu.edu Marquette University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Tue Mar 26 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!torn!istar.net!infoshare!passport.ca!grumpy.insinc.net!roger.interlynx.net!news From: lthomsen@interlynx.net (Lars Thomsen) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Frequency response and impulse response ? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 05:14:02 GMT Organization: Interlynx Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4jb4d7$r57@roger.interlynx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp20_max1.interlynx.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I am working myself through the new edition of "Single-channel recording" edited by Neher and Sackmann. ISBN 0-306-44870 My approach to work throgh the math is based on a simple tactic, I work slowly through the formulas and try to understand all the individual components. When that is ascieved I plot the functions in my math program. It really works - I get around and many times I see the light. However, at a very interesting place (page 485) the authors (Colquhoun and Sigworth) describes a theoretical model for a Gaussian filter, which has the frequency response : (equation 1) B(f) = exp(-kf²) Then the authors states that "the inverse transform of equation 1 gives the filter's impulse response" My simple questions (which uncovers my unknowledge) goes as follows : question 1) What does the impulse response do to the signal. I try to plot the function and it was a straight line through zero. question 2) the following wording "the inverse transform..." does that refer to the inverser FFT transform. The conclusion at bottom page 485 states the if you have to filters in series then your resulting corner frequency fc is : 1/(fc²) = 1/(f1)² + 1/(f2)², where f1 and f2 are the respectively fc's for the two filters in series. The article also states that high order Bessel filters aproaches the Gaussian response. question 3) How can estimate how good the approximation is if the first Bessel filter is a 4 pole and the second a 8 pole. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Mar 27 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!swsbe6.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.rccn.net!master.di.fc.ul.pt!student.cc.fc.ul.pt!fviking From: Nuno Parreira Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Life in Mars Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:50:45 +0200 Organization: Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa Lines: 7 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: student.cc.fc.ul.pt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to get some information about the research about the existence of life in Mars !!! If you had something please send to fviking@cc.fc.ul.pt From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 28 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!AAAI.ORG!skalsky From: skalsky@AAAI.ORG (Rick Skalsky) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: KR'96 - CALL FOR PAPERS Date: 29 Mar 1996 14:22:20 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 251 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9603292132.AA07888@aaai.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net KR'96 - CALL FOR PAPERS FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. November 5-8, 1996 World Wide Web: http://kr.org/kr/ Information Autoresponder: kr96-info@kr.org Contact information below INVITATION Explicit representations of knowledge manipulated by inference algorithms provide an important foundation for much work in Artificial Intelligence, from natural language dialogue systems to expert systems. We intend KR'96 to be a place for the exchange of news, issues, and results among the community of researchers in the principles and practices of knowledge representation and reasoning (KR&R) systems. We encourage papers that present substantial new results in the principles of KR&R systems while clearly showing the applicability of those results to implemented or implementable AI systems. We also encourage "reports from the field" of applications, experiments, developments, and tests. The following topics are meant to be suggestive of the scope of the conference. Representational Formalisms Representing Belief, Intention, Time, Space, Action, Events Nonmonotonic Logics Description Logics Reasoning Techniques Deduction Induction Abduction Reasoning under Uncertainty Parallel and Distributed Implementations Efficiency Measures and Complexity Implemented KR&R Systems Reports Updates Comparisons Evaluations Significant Applications of KR&R Systems and Techniques Planning Robotics Diagnosis Natural Language Multi-Agent Environments Knowledge Bases Implications for/of Other Areas of AI and CS Machine Learning Decision Theory Databases Software Engineering SCHEDULE KR'96 will be held in Cambridge immediately preceding the AAAI Fall Symposia Series, and immediately after several independent workshops. More information on these adjoining meetings appears at the end of this announcement. May 6, 1996 Extended abstracts due June 14, 1996 Results to authors July 17, 1996 Final papers due November 2-4, 1996 Workshops (DL'96, Relevance) November 5-8, 1996 KR'96 November 9-11, 1996 AAAI Fall Symposia SUBMISSION OF PAPERS The Program Committee will review EXTENDED ABSTRACTS rather than complete papers. Submissions must be at most twelve (12) pages, excluding the title page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt). Overlength submissions will be rejected without review. All abstracts must be submitted on 8 1/2 by 11 inch or A4 paper, and printed or typed in 12-point font (10 characters per inch on a typewriter). Dot matrix printout, FAX, or electronic submission will not be accepted. Each submission should include the names and complete addresses (including email, when possible) of all authors. Correspondence will be sent to the first author, unless otherwise indicated. Also, authors should indicate under the title which of the topic areas listed above best describes their paper (if none is appropriate, please give a set of keywords that best describe the topic of the paper). KR'96 is arranging with AAAI to handle the collection and acknowledgment of submissions. To be considered, five (5) paper copies of each extended abstract must be received no later than May 20, 1996 at the following address: KR'96 c/o AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged, ordinarily by email. Remaining questions concerning receipt of submission may be addressed to AAAI at Tel: 415-328-3123 Fax: 415-321-4457 Email: kr@aaai.org MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantively different from papers currently under review. NOTIFICATION Authors will be notified of the Program Committee's decision by July 1, 1996. Notification will be made by electronic mail whenever possible. FINAL PAPERS Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit substantially longer full papers for the conference proceedings. Final camera-ready copies of the full papers will be due July 31, 1996. Final papers will be allowed at most twelve (12) double-column pages in the conference proceedings (corresponding to approximately 28 article-style LaTeX pages; a style file will be provided by the publisher). REGISTRATION Registration, lodging, and travel information will be distributed later; check the web page or autoresponder listed above for current information. KR'96 is arranging with AAAI to handle registration, including payment by credit card. CONFERENCE CHAIR Jon Doyle Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Voice: +1 (617) 253-3512 Fax: +1 (617) 258-8682 EMAIL: doyle@mit.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Luigia Carlucci Aiello Stuart C. Shapiro, Universit di Roma La Sapienza State University of New York at Buffalo Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Department of Computer Science via Salaria 113 226 Bell Hall 00198 Roma Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 ITALY USA Voice: +39 6 8841947 Voice: +1 716 645 3180 ext. 125 Fax: +39 6 85300849 Fax: +1 716 645 3464 EMAIL: aiello@dis.uniroma1.it EMAIL: shapiro@cs.buffalo.edu EMAIL: kr96-pc-chairs@kr.org INTER-CONFERENCE COOPERATION CHAIR Ronald P. Loui Washington University, USA EMAIL: loui@cs.wustl.edu PUBLICITY CHAIR Werner Horn Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence Austria EMAIL: werner@ai.univie.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Preliminary) Syed Ali (SW. MO St. U., USA) John A. Barnden (NM St. U., USA) Ron Brachman (ST&T, USA) Ernest Davis (NYU, USA) Richard Fikes (Stanford U., USA) Fausto Giunchiglia (U. Trento, Italy) Patrick Hayes (U. IL, USA) Jim Hendler (U. Md, USA) Eduard Hovy (USC/ISI, USA) Kurt Konolige (SRI, USA) David Israel (SRI, USA) Lucja Iwanska (Wayne St. U., USA) Benjamin Kuipers (U. TX, USA) Deepak Kumar (Bryn Mawr Coll., USA) Fritz Lehmann (Cycorp and GRANDAI, USA) Doug Lenat (Cycorp, USA) Hector Levesque (U. Toronto, Canada) Vladimir Lifschitz (U. TX, USA) Robert MacGregor (USC/ISI, USA) Hwee Tou Ng (DSO, Singapore) Ramesh Patil (USC/ISI, USA) Anand Rao (AAII, Australia) Len Schubert (U. Rochester, USA) Yoav Shoham (Stanford U., USA) John Sowa (U. Binghamton, USA) Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) ADJOINING CONFERENCES KR'96 will be immediately preceded by several workshops and immediately followed by the AAAI Fall Symposia Series. Tentative information for these meetings is as follows, with all located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The AAAI Fall Symposia Series will be held November 9-11, 1996. For more information, see http://www.aaai.org/. Description Logic '96 will be held November 2-4, 1996. For more information contact the organizing committee at dl96@dl.kr.org. The organizing committee consists of Lin Padgham (chair), Deborah McGuinness, Peter Patel-Schneider, Enrico Franconi, and Manfred Gehrke. Relevance in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (RRR-96) will be held (tentatively) November 2-4, 1996. For more information, contact the organizers, Alon Levy and Russ Greiner, at levy@research.att.com and greiner@scr.siemens.com. Julia Bowen bowen@uranus.aaai.org AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park,CA 94025 (415)328-3123 fax (415)321-4457 Richard Skalsky AAAI 445 Burgess Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025 Voice (415) 328-3123 Fax (415) 321-4457 skalsky@aaai.org ----- End Forwarded Message ----- From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 28 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!newshost.gu.edu.au!gclab014.ins.gu.edu.au!s1050589 From: s1050589@iplabs.ins.gu.edu.au Newsgroups: bionet.cellbiol,bionet.immunology,bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts,bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Isolation of nulcei Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 03:45:54 GMT Organization: Griffith University Gold Coast Student Network Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <31482DE2.4BA1@cfi.unsw.EDU.AU> <4ik49k$924@ipgate.le.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gclab014.ins.gu.edu.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Xref: biosci bionet.cellbiol:4389 bionet.immunology:8370 bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts:42414 bionet.molbio.proteins:7465 bionet.biophysics:1819 In article <4ik49k$924@ipgate.le.ac.uk> "Dr E. Buxbaum" writes: >From: "Dr E. Buxbaum" >Subject: Re: Isolation of nulcei >Date: 18 Mar 1996 16:51:00 GMT >I once tried to break up cells by sonication. This left the nuclei >morphologically intact, of course I don't know if they will still work >with your experiment. In any case, you need only a few seconds at low >power to break the cells open (best to work in an ice/water bath). From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Thu Mar 28 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.OZ.AU!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!newshost.gu.edu.au!gclab014.ins.gu.edu.au!s1050589 From: s1050589@iplabs.ins.gu.edu.au Newsgroups: bionet.cellbiol,bionet.immunology,bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts,bionet.molbio.proteins,bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Isolation of nulcei Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 03:45:27 GMT Organization: Griffith University Gold Coast Student Network Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <31482DE2.4BA1@cfi.unsw.EDU.AU> <4ik49k$924@ipgate.le.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gclab014.ins.gu.edu.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Xref: biosci bionet.cellbiol:4390 bionet.immunology:8371 bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts:42415 bionet.molbio.proteins:7466 bionet.biophysics:1820 In article <4ik49k$924@ipgate.le.ac.uk> "Dr E. Buxbaum" writes: >From: "Dr E. Buxbaum" >Subject: Re: Isolation of nulcei >Date: 18 Mar 1996 16:51:00 GMT >I once tried to break up cells by sonication. This left the nuclei >morphologically intact, of course I don't know if they will still work >with your experiment. In any case, you need only a few seconds at low >power to break the cells open (best to work in an ice/water bath). From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 29 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: viik@ee.tut.fi (Viik Jari) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.diagnostics,sci.engr.biomed,sci.physics.electromag Subject: TUTORIAL COURSES in Biomedical Engineering, June 6-9 1996, Tampere, Finland Date: 29 Mar 1996 19:56:42 -0800 Organization: Tampere University of Technology Lines: 169 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jfubr$ajd@ee.tut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1823 bionet.diagnostics:717 sci.engr.biomed:5768 sci.physics.electromag:9270 TUTORIAL COURSES in Biomedical Engineering, June 6 - 9, 1996, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland Tutorial courses (TC) in the fields of bioelectromagnetism, biosensors, and biomedical signal and image processing will be arranged at the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland in connection to the 10th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and 1st International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism. The TC are primarily aimed at graduate students and young researchers of Biomedical Engineering but may well suit also related fields like Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Clinical Medicine, Biology and Chemical Technology etc. The TC comprise of four separate 2-day-course that are Bioelectromagnetism, Biomedical Signal Processing I, Biosensors and Biomedical Signal Processing II. These will be lectured at Tampere University of Technology in lecture rooms 1 and 2. NOTE: DEADLINE FOR REDUCED REGISTRATION FEE: April 8, 1996 If paid before April 8, the regular registration fee for each course is 1000 FIM. The reduced registration fee for university students is 650 FIM. After April 8 the registration fee is 1400 FIM. The registration fee covers the course material, coffees and lunches during the course. Registration form is on reverse side. Printable registration form and up-to-date information can be found also from internet (http://www.ee.tut.fi/~nbc96/ preconf.html). DETAILED COURSE PROGRAMS: BIOELECTROMAGNETISM Course material: Textbook "Malmivuo J, Plonsey R: Bioelectromagnetism, Oxford University Press, 1995, 482 pages". A complimentary copy of the book is given for every participant. Lecturers: Prof. Jaakko Malmivuo, Ragnar Granit Institute, Tampere University of Technology, Prof. Robert Plonsey, Duke University, NC, USA. Thursday 06.06.1996 09:00 -> Registration + coffee 10:00 - 10:15 Opening ceremony of the TUTORIAL COURSES 10:15 - 11:00 Introduction 11:15 - 12:00 Anatomical and physiological basis of bioelectromagnetism 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 13:45 Volume source and volume conductor 14:00 - 14:45 Source-field models 14:45 - 15:15 Coffee 15:15 - 16:00 Bidomain model of multicellular volume conductors 16:15 - 17:00 Theoretical methods for analyzing volume sources and volume conductors Friday 07.06.1996 09:00 - 09:45 Theory of biomagnetic measurements 09:45 - 10:15 Coffee 10:15 - 11:00 Electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography 11:15 - 12:00 Electrocardiography, vectorcardiography, magnetocardiography 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 13:45 Electric and magnetic stimulation of neural tissue 13:45 - 14:15 Coffee 14:15 - 15:00 Cardiac pacing 15:15 - 16:00 Impedance measurements 16:00 - 16:15 Closing remarks and issue of certificates BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING I: Course material: Edited booklet based on lecturing notes Lecturers: Prof. Jaakko Astola and Prof. Tapio Saramdki, Digital Signal Processing Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, DrTech Pauli Kuosmanen, and MSc Sakari Alenius, Digital Media Institute, Tampere University of Technology Thursday 06.06.1996 09:00 -> Registration + coffee 10:00 - 10:15 Opening ceremony of the TUTORIAL COURSES 10:15 - 12:00 How to filter an continuous-time signal with the aid of a digital filter 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 13:45 Basic tools for analysing and synthisizing digital filters (Saramdki) 14:00 - 14:45 Filter design and finite wordlength effects (Saramdki) 14:45 - 15:15 Coffee 15:15 - 17:00 Fundamentals of median type filtering (Astola) Friday 07.06.1996 09:00 - 09:45 Image perception (Kuosmanen) 09:45 - 10:15 Coffee 10:15 - 12:00 Median type filters in biomedical signal processing (Astola) 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 13:45 Image enhancement (Kuosmanen) 13:45 - 14:15 Coffee 14:15 - 15:00 Image restoration (Kuosmanen) 15:15 - 16:00 Image reconstruction - an example case (Alenius) 16:00 - 16:15 Closing remarks and issue of certificates BIOSENSORS Course material: Edited booklet based on lecturing notes. Lecturers: Prof. Anthony P.F. Turner, Cranfield Biotechnology Centre, UK, Docent Jukka Lekkala, Ragnar Granit Institute, Docent Janusz Sadowski, Lic.Phil. Inger.Vikholm, Lic.Tech. Jyrki Kimmel, VTT Chemical Technology, Tampere. Saturday 08.06.1996 09:00 -> Registration 10:00 - 10:45 Introduction to biosensor concept (Lekkala) 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee 11:00 - 11:45 Biosensing (Vikholm) 11:45 - 12:30 Formation of protein layers (Vikholm) 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 14:15 Electrochemical methods (Albers) 14:30 - 15:15 Optical sensing by evanescent methods (Sadowski) 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee 15:45 - 16:30 Optical fibre sensors (Kimmel) 16:45 - 17:30 Piezoelectric sensors (Lekkala) Sunday 09.06.1996 09:00 - 09:15 Introduction (Lekkala) 09:15 - 10:00 Applications of biosensors (Turner) 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee 10:15 - 11:30 The "top ten" of commercial biosensors (Turner) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch 12:30 - 13:15 Demonstration of biosensors (Lekkala, Turner) 13:15 - 13:45 Coffee 13:45 - 14:30 The future of biosensor research (Turner) 14:30 - 14:45 Closing remarks and issue of certificates (Lekkala) BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING II Course material: Edited booklet based on lecturing notes. Lecturers: Prof. Metin Akay, Biomedical Engineering Department, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, Prof. Patrick Flandrin, ENS Lyon, France, Prof. Andrew Laine, Computer Information Science Department, University of Florida, FL, USA, Prof. Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, University of Vienna Medical School, Vienna, Austria Saturday 08.06.1996 09:00 -> Registration 10:00 - 10.45 Fuzzy Logic and Knowledge Based System (Adlassnig) 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee 11:00 - 12:30 Time-Frequency and Wavelets (Flandrin) 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:15 Implementation of 2-D Wavelets (Laine) 15:15 - 15:45 Coffee 15:45 - 17:30 Wavelets and Biomedical Signal Processing (Akay) Sunday 09.06.1996 09:00 - 09:45 Wavelets and Medical Imaging (Laine) 09:45 - 10:00 Coffee 10:00 - 11:30 Fuzzy Logic and knowledge Based Systems in Medicine (Adlassnig) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch 12:30 - 13:15 Recent Advances in Time-Freq and Wavelets (Flandrin) 13:15 - 13:30 Coffee 13:30 - 14:15 Hybrid Signal Processing (Akay) 14:15 - 14:30 Closing remarks and issue of certificates --------- GENERAL INFORMATION: For the participants of tutorial courses we have reserved following hotels with reduced conference prices. The prices apply providing that you contact the hotel directly and use the indication "NBC96" when making your reservation. Hotel Victoria: Located in the vicinity (100m) of the congress center (Tampere Talo). Good bus connection to the Tampere University of Technology (about 25 min). RR: Single room FIM 350, Double room FIM 420. Tel.+358-31-2425111 Fax. +358-31-2425100. Hotel Hermica/Hervanta: Located in the vicinity (400m) of the Tampere University of Technology. RR: Single room FIM 190, Double room FIM 240. Tel. +358-31-255 0000, Fax. +358-31-255 0009. More information gives: =========================================================================== Rami Lehtinen, Lic.Tech. Ragnar Granit Institute, Tampere University of Technology P.O.Box 692, FIN-33101 Tampere, FINLAND Tel.+358-(9)31-247 4006, Fax.+358-(9)31-247 4013, E-mail rami@ee.tut.fi, WWW-homepage http://www.ee.tut.fi/~rami/ =========================================================================== -- Jari Viik viik@ee.tut.fi TTKK/RGI From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Fri Mar 29 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!lhc.nlm.nih.gov!crick.sura.net!news.ums.edu!news.umbc.edu!not-for-mail From: cweiss1@umbc.edu (Christopher Weiss) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Boltzman distribution Date: 29 Mar 1996 18:09:12 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4jhqio$99p@umbc10.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc10.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: cweiss1 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. What is a boltzman distribution? How is the equation derived? Under what circumstances can it be applied? Love is the law, love under will. Christopher Weiss From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 30 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!library.ucla.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!DIALix!sydney.DIALix.oz.au!canberra.DIALix.oz.au!not-for-mail From: kennjo@canberra.DIALix.oz.au (John Kennedy) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: undersea settlements Date: 31 Mar 1996 14:45:25 +1000 Organization: DIALix Services, Canberra, Australia. Lines: 18 Sender: kennjo@canberra.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <4jl2l5$2ui$1@canberra.DIALix.oz.au> I am writing in the hope that you might be able to provide me with a reference or some background to "Cousteau's village on the floor of the Red Sea". This phrase is used in the foreword to a Willard Price novel 'Diving Adventure' written in the 60s. The novel develops the concept of an underwater city in which people live in stilt houses surrounded by a blister of air. My son, aged 9, whom we homeschool is reading this novel and is interested in learning whether such fanatasy cities actually exist. In addition to 'Costeau's village' the foreword to the novel also aludes to a U.S. Navy Sealab project and 'other experimental projects' as the inspirational models and sometime factual basis for the story. Any references or information on 'undersea terraforming' experiments or would be gratefully wellcomed. As I do not regularly check newsgroup postings I would appreciate it if replies could be emailed. Regards, John Kennedy kennjo@canberra.dialix.oz.au From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sat Mar 30 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!usc!news.cerf.net!news From: "N. Gat" Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.diagnostics,sci.engr.biomed,sci.physics.electromag Subject: Re: TUTORIAL COURSES in Biomedical Engineering, June 6-9 1996, Tampere, Finland Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:38:24 -0800 Organization: Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <315E3670.3CE1@cerfnet.com> References: <4jfubr$ajd@ee.tut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: oksi.cerfnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win16; I) To: Viik Jari Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:1824 bionet.diagnostics:720 sci.engr.biomed:5776 sci.physics.electromag:9295 Hi, Just in case you are unfamiliar with the TechExpo Calendar of science and technology conferences (covering the engineering and medical/life sciences)... You may want to post your conference announcement at URL: http://www.techexpo.com/ This site is visited by over a thousand engineers, scientists, medical researchers, and technical managers each day. It is fully indexed and searchable by event name, location, date, sponsoring org., key words, etc. Simply fill out the form with the conference information and submit. Please READ posting policy. Complete conference agenda, and electronic registration form can also be posted for a nominal fee For example see: http://www.techexpo.com/events/isas96/isas96.html). Regards, Nahum Gat, Ph.D. Please ignore my message if you have already been there. P.S. The TechExpo Technical Bookfair is now online! From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 31 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.gi.net!news.mid.net!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!baker From: baker@iastate.edu (Wayne R. Baker) Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: Re: Boltzman distribution Date: 1 Apr 1996 20:33:13 GMT Organization: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Iowa State University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4jpei9$11n@news.iastate.edu> References: <4jhqio$99p@umbc10.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pv0a0b.vincent.iastate.edu In bionet.biophysics, Christopher Weiss wrote : :What is a boltzman distribution? A thermodynamic expression that relates the population of a given state to its energy level. :How is the equation derived? Fairly straightforwardly in most all thermodynamics/P-chem textbooks. See section 22.5 in Levine's "Physical Chemistry" text. :Under what circumstances can it be applied? To ideal systems. -- Wayne Baker (baker@iastate.edu) Maybe a great magnet pulls Biochemistry & Biophysics All souls towards truth Iowa State University -- k. d. lang, "Constant Craving" From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 31 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!gatech!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!connix.com!news From: mortgage@connix.com Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: mortgages Date: 1 Apr 1996 18:26:22 GMT Organization: Connix - The Connecticut Internet Exchange Lines: 5 Message-ID: <4jp74e$8gl@comet.connix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rwschlott.connix.com X-Newsreader: SPRY News 3.03 (SPRY, Inc.) we offer 0 - point mortgages. Great Rate... call 1800-370-5802 we also have great Jumb mortgages programs. Mortgages of $207,000 to three milliomn dollars. From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Mar 31 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!rutgers!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.itsnet.com!krusty.itsnet.com!ajackson From: Alan Jackson Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics Subject: MAGNETIC HEALTH EFFECTS (not smoking) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:35:44 -0700 Organization: Internet Technology Systems, Provo UT USA Lines: 1034 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: krusty.itsnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "WORM SIGN" (Book worm that is.) You may have seen reports concerning research relating to magnetic fields. And noticed that the reason they have been described as "controversial",is because of a lack of what is known as a "Mechanistic model", or a working experimental model. The information here-in, has the ability to take one passed the previous groping for a model, to the beginning of an under- standing. Now, this initial understanding, that magnetic bacteria live inside our cells, can teach each person a way of life which will allow his body to maintain better health. And focus the research work onto a path which will surely lead to still better health. Like nutrition, "Magnetrition" is something, that when a person uses its principles, he displays much better stewardship when it comes to the care of the cells of his body. Magnetrition takes the concept of exercise is step forward. With the understanding that exercise has been mans way of avoiding the effects of magnetic deficiency syndrome, he becomes aware that his lifestile of movement in the earth's magnetic field has always been a determining foctor in the equation of his health. The concept of magnetrition has been around for ten years. But because its truth shows many to be wrong in their way of thinking, it has not been embraced by mankind. Poor leadership, or the prevention of good leadership, can be the only reason for the lack of magnetritions' beneficial effect on mankind. Magnetrition causes many to rethink what they thought they learned. "MAGNETRITION" Good news for some. Bad news for others. It now is shown that all lab animal experiments were flawed because the animals need to move about in the earth's magnetic field was not taken into account. Like NASA, and all medical diagnoses up to now, something they were not aware of was playing an important part, but went unnoticed for many different reasons. With the lab animal experiments, many researcher reported seeing what they and/or their supporters wanted to see. They essentially led many into embracing their personal beliefs, or prejudices against others, by the deception of allowing their assessment to be referred to as proof. Systematically, man source of niacin has been shifted from the time honored tradition of smoking, to one controlled by those in the pharmceutical industry. Because those in the professional practice of medicine stand to profit as niacin becomes a monetary issue for everyone, we see it embraced by those known as doctors. Without a person smoking, he is left lacking, both physically and mentally. This has led to many embracing a lifestyle offered by religion. A lifestyle which is group oriented becomes helpful to those made lacking by the deception that smoking is causing the effects of magnetic deficiency syndrome. Those who have embraced the deception that smoking is unhealthy, and have publicly denounced the tradition of smoking, not only helped to lead many astray, helped in the persecution of those keeping to the tradition, but now prevents the benefits of magnetrition to all, by their unwillingness to admit to being wrong. Poor health is the price for greed and ignorance. The following is from the book entitled; BACTERIOLOGY for Students in General and Household Science By ESTELLE D. BUCHANAN, M.S. and ROBERT EARLE BUCHANAN, Ph.D. fourth Edition Copyright, 1939. Previous Editions 1913,1921,and 1930. By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY CHAPTER 1; BACTERIOLOGY AND ITS BEGINNINGS, page 8, 9 and 10. -" 3. The Germ Theory of Fermentation and Decay.- Soon after it was discovered that many microorganisms were present in fermenting and decaying materials of all kinds, the question arose, Are these organisms fundamentally responsible for the changes going on, or are they simply attracted or possibly nourished by chemical changes which are proceeding quite independently of them? In other words, it was asked, Do the bacteria produce the changes, or do the chemical changes which occur make the conditions favorable for the development of the bacteria? The work of CagniardRLatuor (1837) and of Schwann (1837) indicated the probable plant nature of yeast, and that alcoholic fermentation is due to the growth and activity of yeasts. However, the idea that the microR 0rganisms are incidental and not causal was upheld with great vigor by the celebrated German chemist Liebig. He so dominated the field of chemistry in the period from 1840 to 1860 that relatively few scientists had the temerity to question his conclusions. The French investigator Pasteur, however, from time to time published experimental results from which he concluded that microorganisms are the primary cause of most types of fermentations. These conclusions were strenuously opposed by Liebig and his school, who ridiculed them as puerile and quite unworthy of serious consideration. Pasteur, however, took the problems into the laboratory and continued to pile up evidence until finally he succeeded in showing quite conclusively that the alcoholic fermentation of sugars is commonly due to the presence of yeasts, the souring of milk and the transformation of wine into vinegar are due to the activity of bacteria." -" 4. The Germ Theory of Disease.- Certain philosophers of ancient Greece suggested that possibly minute worms or germs of some kind floating about in the air might be responsible for the production of disease. There was, of course, no adequate proof of the validity of these suggestions, and in general they were disregarded until the work of Leeuwenhoek (already mentioned) demonstrated that tiny microorganisms were wideR spread. Plenciz (1762) apparently was the first to state clearly a modern theory of the relationships of microorganisms to disease. He claimed that each disease was caused by a particular kind of germ and that these germs could be carried from one person to another through the medium of the air. However, the science of bacteriology had not developed to such a point in his day that it was possible to secure any adequate experimental proof for his theories. They were, in other words, wholly speculative." - The development of the germ theory of disease has quite completely revolutionized much of the practice of modern medicine. It has deterR mined largely the direction and magnitude of growth of modern sanitary science and of preventive medicine." -Comment; By Alan E. Jackson. MOSES=SMOKING JESUS=BED fORD=CAR BELL=PHONE A DEEP DIVE INTO HISTORY. or IT CAN ONLY BE SEEN FROM THIS POSITION. The previous or subject statement is constructed in a unique manner. Most clearly can be recognized, is the flawed politically generated assessment of reality, and the way it directly opposes that held by a child of God. By the "Germ Theory of Disease" being voiced, evidence is given that a sufficient amount of data or knowledge was available to deduce the truth. And it was revealed. Now the reason as to why the truth was accepted, or made part of our lives, has to due with what has been viewed as politically important, or correct. It is much easier for God, (the truth, the way, that which is educational), to be noticed, by one who gives much prayer, (thought), to what is taking place. The view of historical events, expressed in the subject statement, distinctly emphasizes the omission of the fact, that Jesus was shunned, and met with powerful political opposition when he began to put the Germ Theory of Disease to work in our lives. Over time, we see this. Through the study of old stories, Jesus was able to recognize that the Jewish faith was based on deriving benefits from the use of the Germ Theory of Disease. A degree of devotion toward understanding allowed Jesus to see that the Jewish leaders had only the words, and not the meaning, to a way of life, which had grown as passed from generation to generation. With history recording that from time to time someone would gain an understanding from the records, and add a ritual to the lives of its people, Jesus realized that he was now the one for whom all was saved. He went to work using what he had learned from the force that guided the Jewish people, and directed their daily lives. The Jewish people didn't like the idea of sharing their practices, their faith, that which gave them better health then the others around them. But history showed Jesus that even the Jewish people would gain a health advantage,(through lack of exposure), when all peoples practiced "THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE. Smoke, rolling in ashes, circumcision, being careful with food, and sleeping in beds, these are some of the ways the Jewish people were known for. They are ways that help one defend against bugs, big and small. And sleeping up of the ground, not only kept man away from many bugs, but also improved ones resistance by preventing heat/energy loss into the ground. "The need for translating the heavenly tongue, each generation has it." Jesus is reported as having cured many illnesses that we now know are caused by small bugs. And with the average person not yet having the word sleep in their vocabulary, we can see that 2,000 years ago the word dead was used, by most, to describe a person unconscious. So from the reports we can see that Jesus was going around finding people suffering from unsanitary conditions, sharing his faith with them, and many times making them more educate then the Jewish leaders (doctors). After Jesus left a sick person, the most obvious change in that persons life was that he now slept on a bed. This was described by many as him having raised the dead (sleeping). With a correct, working method of healing, Jesus began to make to make those who attempted blindly to heal others, look bad. The one who cared more about health them wealth, began to teach others his way, and they too so successful at their attempts at healing, this caused others professing a different reason, to perceive a threat. Evidence indicates that an understanding of bacteriology and its beginnings, must include the story of Jesus, and those of his faith that came before him. From: Encyclopedia Americana, Rby Eric PartridgeR PIPE< Tobacco. "A tobacco pipe has been dully described as a bowl, to hold smoking tobacco, and a stem with a mouthpiece. It is usually made wholly of baked clay or stone or predominantly of wood. Less pedestrianly, the pipe is an instrument affording a soothing pleasure to pipe smokers and a profound mortification to all nonsmokers. Smokers claim that pipe smoking is a healthy habit and it forms a wonderful disinfectant and safeguard against many ills and infections. Nonsmokers assert that it is a filthy habit, almost as bad as cigarette smoking. One of the most interesting facts about tobacco pipes is that they have not only a fascinating cultural history but also an illuminating word history that renders the cultural history much more human." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In Preparation of; THE NEST. Greetings all hands: This is the Captain sending; As many of you are aware already, we have entered a sector of space previously unexplored by man, physically. During this short time since entering this new enviornment, we have become aware of health deficiencies in all crew members. And the explanation as to the cause of these deficiencies, also shows that man has been suffering from these deficiencies, to a lesser degree, ever since man recognized poor health and short life as undesirables. I'm asking that all hands review this report, and submit any personal insight to ship's science officer. With your help in implementing warranted adjustments, magnetic deficiency syndrome will be a problem for mankind no longer. Please note, it is in the recognition and resolve of obstacles just such as this, that we find the reasoning behind exploration. Again, this is the Captain sending, thanks. Concept 1, condensed/abstract; Magnetotactic Bacteria. Movement within earths' magnetic field thought to be instrumental throughout life cycle of typical cell. Magnetic bacteria seen as cause of cell division, and revealed hidden link in understanding evolution of the microscopic biological structure. WITH CAUSE, A THEORY, EXPLAINING CELL DIVISION. A theoretical report containing recently formulated concepts derived from scientific assessment. This report attempts to place its reader in the shoes of its author as steps are retraced which have led one to believe he understands the cause of cell division, and thus benefit from such understanding. The purpose of this report is to share, and lay open for debate, a new perception of medicine, past, present, and future. Dedicated to: Those who have, do, or will study, to any degree. If we allow the dead to bury the dead, must we allow those alive to uncover life? The following thought filled pages/concepts, believed composed by the artful manipulation of preconceived ideas, guided by reason, requires intense scrutiny and debate before any or all information derived can be accepted as fact or fiction. WELCOME, you are about to come in contact with a thought matrix. Do not allow its scope or growth potential to intimidate "you", its traveler. We will begin the journey through the matrix in the hope that the first points of reference are well known, and will give the traveler the feeling, as a child leaving his yard to explore the neighborhood. I will attempt to guide you on a predetermined course. please feel free to request course deviation to explore points of interest. Once you feel at ease, we encourage independent travel. To begin, READ-ON, and thank-you for traveling; THOUGHT MINISTRIES, BY REMEMBERING, WE GET YOU THERE IN TIME. The following article is from; THE NEWS-TIMES, Morehead City-beaufort, N.C. Monday, Nov. 11, 1985. "LOCAL THEORIST BELIEVES MOVEMENT IS ESSENTIAL TO CELLULAR GROWTH, LIFE". BY JOHN HACKNEY, News-Times Staff Writer. ALAN JACKSON, Morehead City, fancies himself as a backyard philosopher. He spends a lot of hours reading books, magazines and research papers trying to understand just why certain things are the way they are. Mr. Jackson's most recent research has yielded an astounding theory; that movement is as important as nourishment to human beings. He came to that conclusion based on the behavior of magnetic bacteria. He also believes these bacteria may be responsible for cell division. "I think movement through the earth's magnetic field is as important as nutrition." MR. JACKSON, 32, left high school at the age of 17 to join the Marine Corp. He spent four years at Cherry Point, during which time he earned general education development (G.E.D.) degree and took college preparatory courses in various fields. Since leaving Cherry Point, he has held jobs with Hatsel Electric Co.; with Conner Homes as an electrician; with Carteret Court Apartments, as maintenance supervisor; and at Sea Coast Refrigeration. He has also taken several college courses at Carteret Technical College. MR. JACKSON believes the earth's magnetic field is generated by molten lava rotating in the earth's core. The lava moves in