Method for acquiring, storing and analyzing crystal images

A system utilizing a digital computer for acquiring, storing and evaluating crystal images. The system includes a video camera (12) which produces a digital output signal representative of a crystal specimen positioned within its focal window (16). The digitized output from the camera (12) is then stored on data storage media (32) together with other parameters inputted by a technician and relevant to the crystal specimen. Preferably, the digitized images are stored on removable media (32) while the parameters for different crystal specimens are maintained in a database (40) with indices to the digitized optical images on the other data storage media (32). Computer software is then utilized to identify not only the presence and number of crystals and the edges of the crystal specimens from the optical image, but to also rate the crystal specimens by various parameters, such as edge straightness, polygon formation, aspect ratio, surface clarity, crystal cracks and other defects or lack thereof, and other parameters relevant to the quality of the crystals

Inflammatory chemokine receptors regulate CD8+ T cell contraction and memory generation following infection

CD8+ T cells lacking CXCR3 and CCR5 expression have impaired contraction and generate an increased number of memory cells after virus infection

Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence

There has been an increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. This violence has generated concern among U.S. policy makers that the violence in Mexico might spill over into the United States. This report looks at the nature of the drug trafficking conflict and assessments of how the conflict could spill across the border

Steric and Electronic Interactions between Cofacial Metallocene Rings

As part of a study of interactions between metallocenes, held so that two cyclopentadienyl rings are constrained to be proximate and facing one another, 1,8-diruthenocenylnaphthalene (1b) has been prepared and its crystal structure has been determined. This structure is shown to be close to that of 1,8-diferrocenylnaphthalene (1a) reported earlier, especially in respect to the dihedral angle between the substituted cyclopentadienyl and naphthalene ring planes and the splay angle between the two substituted cyclopentadienyl rings. Both of these distortions are significantly diminished in the monocation derived from 1a, suggesting that there is a significant decrease in electron density on the cyclopentadienyl rings on oxidation of ferrocene to a ferricenium cation, consistent with theoretical analyses. © 1988, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved