Mobile Image Ratiometry: A New Method for Instantaneous Analysis of Rapid Test Strips

Here we describe Mobile Image Ratiometry (MIR), a new method for the automated quantification of standardized rapid immunoassay strips using consumer-based mobile smartphone and tablet cameras. To demonstrate MIR we developed a standardized method using rapid immunotest strips directed against cocaine (COC) and its major metabolite, benzoylecgonine (BE). We performed image analysis of three brands of commercially available dye-conjugated anti-COC/BE antibody test strips in response to three different series of cocaine concentrations ranging from 0.1 to 300 ng/ml and BE concentrations ranging from 0.003 to 0.1 ng/ml. These data were then used to create standard curves to allow quantification of COC/BE in biological samples. MIR quantification of COC and BE proved to be a sensitive, economical, and faster alternative to more costly methods, such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, or high pressure liquid chromatography. MIR is a valuable tool that provides instant data acquisition, tracking and analysis for the emerging field of mobile platform informatics (MPI)

A survey of elementary school banking in New England

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

History of public education in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

As the traveller approaches Jeffersonville from the north by way of U.S. Highway Number Thirty-One, he may see at the city limits a marker bearing the following information: Jeffersonville was founded in 1802 and named in honor of Thomas Jefferson who planned the original town plat. It was made the county seat by William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory. A stranger visiting a city is usually attracted by those things along the lines of his own interests. The engineer would be interested in plats and sanitary conditions. The business man would be interested in the business section. The physician would notice health and sanitary conditions, and hospitals. The minister would be attracted by the various buildings devoted to religious worship. The educator would be interested in educational facilities. In this work the writer, with the point of view of the educator, will endeavor to trace the development of free public education in Jeffersonville from its early beginnings. Attention will be given to backgrounds of private education, administrative and executive personnel so far as records are available, procurement of real estate and erection of school plants, and development of school curricula, and extra-curricular activities. To obtain this information, the writer purposes to search previously written history, school and court house records, and local newspaper files. Added information will be sought through interviews with reliable older citizens of this community

Statutory Protection of Creditors in Reduction of Capital Stock

The sharp process of deflation which business has undergoneduring recent years has vested statutes relating to the reductionof corporate capital with an importance little appreciated whenmost of such statutes were enacted. Since 1929 an abrupt reversalof the previous tendency to increase corporate capitalizationshas taken place. Enormous sums of money and the interestsof many people have been subjected to the procedures forreduction of capital prescribed by the various corporation acts.With a few exceptions the protection which these acts afford tothe creditors of the corporation involved is entirely inadequate,a situation which may be ascribed largely to a failure to comprehendthe position of the creditor and the accounting problemsinvolved in the reduction situation

Nietzsche on Copernicus

I show that we have reason to believe a view on scientific theory change can be discerned in what I call the “Copernicus passages” of Nietzsche’s published work—specifically, the incommensurability thesis. Since this view denies what Maudemarie Clark calls the “equivalence principle,” she claims incommensurability cannot reasonably be attributed to Nietzsche. I argue, however, that we can reasonably attribute incommensurability to Nietzsche in the Copernicus passages, so my reading should not be ruled out. The first upshot to this project is that I provide a reading of passages that have received no scholarly attention to date. The second upshot is that we can understand Copernicus in light of the broader, better-known themes in Nietzsche’s published work: Nietzsche’s moral skepticism about the value of self-denial motivates his opposition to the ascetic ideal and to the emerging dogmas of scientists

Modern noise problem

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston Universit

The Current and the String

A descriptive narration of a project to create an interactive installation of video art and narration representing memory as it is altered by mood and circumstance, as seen through the relationship between father and daughter as it develops through her adolescence into adulthood. Includes shot list, production stills, text of the poem that narrates the video, and a DVD-R with the installation video followed by footage of viewers interacting with the installation