• The virtual colony count procedure takes advantage of this fact by first exposing bacterial cells to the active antimicrobial agent in a low-salt buffer for two hours, then simultaneously inhibiting antimicrobial activity and inducing exponential growth by adding broth. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wong CF, Yeo JY, Gan SKE (2016) APD Colony Counter App: Using Watershed Algorithm for improved colony counting. (apple.com)
  • Virtual colony count (VCC) is a kinetic, 96-well microbiological assay originally developed to measure the activity of defensins. (wikipedia.org)
  • Multiplexed, high throughput standardized assay formats such as the multiplexed opsonophagocytic killing (MOPA4) assay can be readily counted by NICE. (nist.gov)
  • Our average estimate for the Kasanka colony for five days in November 2019 was 857,233 bats. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • Satellite imagery showing the reduction in size of the Halley Bay colony in 2018 compared with 2015. (bas.ac.uk)
  • We demonstrate this approach by estimating the size of a straw-colored fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) colony in Kasanka National Park, Zambia with cameras encircling the colony to record evening emergence. (uni-konstanz.de)
  • Enumeration of bacterial colonies on an agar plate is simple in concept, but automated colony counting is difficult due to variations in colony color, size, shape, contrast, and density, as well as colony overlap. (nist.gov)
  • Enumeration by direct count of viable, isolated bacterial, archaeal, or fungal CELLS or SPORES capable of growth on solid CULTURE MEDIA. (bvsalud.org)
  • For that reason, several methods that rely on digital images for automatically counting cells and bacteria colonies have been proposed. (unimas.my)
  • In this paper, we introduce a mobile based computer vision algorithm for automatic bacteria colony counting using morphological operations and transforms in image processing, on a custom Android mobile cross-platform open source software and written in Java, C++ and Open CV computer vision library. (unimas.my)
  • In these locations, mean values for total plate count, lactose fermenting bacteria, haemolytic bac- teria and non-lactose fermenting bacteria were 478.6 colony forming units (cfu)/m3, 24.9 cfu/m3, 6.5 cfu/m3, and 4.8 cfu/m3 respectively. (who.int)
  • Gram negative bacteria (GNB) were analyzed by plating and counting colony forming units. (cdc.gov)
  • Direct reading instruments that measure how particles scatter light have greater sensitivity and precision than bioassays that require viable viruses or bacteria, multiple dilutions, specific growth media, temperature-controlled growth conditions and well-trained technicians to count colonies. (cdc.gov)
  • The lactic acid bacteria counts of coalho cheese from producers A and B were 106 and the highest counts (109 UFC/g) were found in cheese samples from producer C. Forty-nine lactic acid bacteria from three rural properties were selected and predominant genera was Enterococcus, Lactococcus, Streptococcus and Leuconostoc. (bvsalud.org)
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) teaches computers how to identify nests with machine learning (ML), allowing for automated colony counting. (azocleantech.com)
  • Using an array of small video cameras, we filmed the bats leaving their roost and then developed artificial intelligence to count them. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • Instead, our team developed an artificial intelligence (AI) program to recognize the bats against the evening sky, track them from frame to frame as they flew across the screen, and count them whenever they crossed the center line. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • The new aCOLade 2 manual colony counter is an ideal choice for budget-conscious microbiology laboratories. (vacutec.co.za)
  • The eCount is a simple to use colony counter for counting cells in microbiology applications or tissue culture. (chemglass.com)
  • The emergence of caste-differentiated colonies, which have been defined as 'superorganisms', in ants, bees, and wasps represents a major transition in evolution. (nature.com)
  • For our new counting approach, we decided to film the bat emergence in a standard way, count the bats in each video, and then extrapolate a total number. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • Colony counter app that can analyze agar plate images and count them manually using the touch screen. (apple.com)
  • We have developed a colony counting program, NIST's Integrated Colony Enumerator (NICE), designed to count dark colonies from multiple regions of interests on an agar plate. (nist.gov)
  • Most colonies contained more than one adult female, with generational overlap and very strong size-related ovarian differentiation among nestmates, indicating that the species is eusocial. (bioone.org)
  • Furthermore, in applications where high throughput is essential, it is critical to employ a fast and user-friendly automated technique that does not compromise counting accuracy. (nist.gov)
  • Our specialised satellite image analysis can detect individuals and penguin huddles, so we can estimate the population based on the known density of the groups to give reliable estimate of colony size. (bas.ac.uk)
  • There were varying methods to estimate the population size of the seabirds at each site, ranging from counting active nests, burrows and in some cases from the size of the site along with a measure of the nest or burrow densities. (duke.edu)
  • A census conducted in January 2020 found all 32 colonies on the island had experienced a decline, with an overall drop to just 52,786 breeding pairs. (azocleantech.com)
  • Census counts varied with time, tide, and seasonal fluctuations for both breeding and nonbreeding populations. (cdc.gov)
  • The procedure for counting colonies is often performed manually and the process is lengthy and tedious. (unimas.my)
  • Here, we show (i) that bumble bee workers retain queen-like reproductive traits, being able to mate and produce colonies, underlain by queen-like gene expression, (ii) the social conditions required for worker mating, and (iii) that these abilities may be selected for by early queen-loss in these annual species. (nature.com)
  • Sex allocation was extremely female biased, and this is probably linked to reproductive skew within colonies. (bioone.org)
  • Thus in 1607 the Virginia Company of London established the Jamestown settlement on the banks of the James River in the Colony of Virginia. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • After the settlement, the colonies slowly began to prosper and eventually gave birth to a race of cybernetic lifeforms, known as Cylons . (battlestarwiki.org)
  • This webinar will provide tips and guidance for uploading colony count data to the NABat Partner Portal, avoiding and correcting common errors and data quality issues, manually creating new survey events and editing survey details through the Partner Portal user interface, and more. (nabatmonitoring.org)
  • Manually counting bats in these videos was not realistic-there were just too many of them. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • We checked the accuracy of the AI method by manually counting some short clips and found it was detecting 95% of the bats. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • In 1971, a census of colonies on Elephant Island - an ice-covered mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica - counted 122,500 breeding pairs of chinstrap penguins. (azocleantech.com)
  • After spreading, the agar plates are then incubated overnight and the number of colony forming units (CFU) is counted the next day. (wikipedia.org)
  • One study found that the number of colony-forming units (CFUs) was found to be a stronger independent predictor of engraftment and a potential better option in assessing the potency of a cord blood unit for transplantation. (cryo-cell.com)
  • Measuring the number of colony-forming units is direct. (cryo-cell.com)
  • The essence of MDS is damage of In the current work we examined All our patients were of the high-risk colony-forming units [4], but the defect haematopoietic stem cells of high-risk group and none of them was eligible of the haematopoietic stem cells is not MDS cases for apoptotic and anti-apop- for stem cell transplantation. (who.int)
  • Researchers from Stony Brook University, New York, US, spent one month counting penguins using clickers. (azocleantech.com)
  • This could improve future study accuracy and enable researchers to count colonies remotely. (azocleantech.com)
  • By reviewing chinstrap colony health, researchers can gauge the health of the krill and the overall status of the marine ecosystem. (azocleantech.com)
  • The system could help researchers keep an eye on penguins and help protect them from extinction by offering a way to monitor the species more closely, including measuring how prediction models are performing, and when and which colonies around Antarctica are likely to survive for the longest. (azocleantech.com)
  • O'Neill colonies, spinning in space instead of occupying alien terrain, promise nearly unlimited space for an ever-growing human population. (astronomy.com)
  • The outer walls of an O'Neill colony are generally pictured as a transparent material, so that mirrors can aim sunlight through its walls as needed to provide light and energy - or to allow darkness, a feature humans also need, especially while we sleep. (astronomy.com)
  • Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World empire. (titanbooks.com)
  • Our world-leading technology includes a wide range of equipment for rapid colony counting and automated inhibition zone measurement, which comply with current regulations specified by accreditation bodies and regulatory agencies. (synbiosis.com)
  • The pressure of marking a colony with a felt-tip pen registers a cumulative count on the digital display with confirmation by audible tone (can be turned on or off). (vacutec.co.za)
  • APD Colony Counter App Lite version is now available on Apple Stores. (apple.com)
  • 6) The app costs less than the cheapest colony counter! (apple.com)
  • This unit combines a multifunction electronic counter with a Sharpie® pen for counting and marking to prevent missing or double-counting colonies in a Petri dish. (chemglass.com)
  • Product Name: Vacuum seed Counter & Placing apparatus Model: ZLC-2000 Product introduction: The ZLC-2000 Vacuum Seed Counting& Placing Instrument is specially designed for seed counting, seed suction and seed placing in seed germination experiment. (ecplaza.net)
  • Automated Yeast Cell Counter Yeast Cell Counting Pitching Yeast Brewing Yeast Product Overview The Countstar® BioFerm Automatic Yeast Counter combines traditional Melanie or Methylene Violet staining with high-resolution imaging and intelligent. (ecplaza.net)
  • The traditional colony count method could be modified to measure antimicrobial activity in the 96-well plate without the need for sampling the wells and spreading surviving cells on agar plates by simply adding an equal volume of twice-concentrated broth after the two hour incubation in the low salt buffer. (wikipedia.org)
  • The total nucleated cell (TNC) count is the most widely used and re-producible method for determining the relative potency of a cord blood collection. (cryo-cell.com)
  • The presence of significant bacteriuria (105 CFU/ml) was determined on the culture plate using the plate count method. (who.int)
  • Counting your baby's cord blood stem cells: What do TNC, CD34+, CFU and other numbers mean? (cryo-cell.com)
  • There are currently several methods you can use to assess the potential future effectiveness of your child's cord blood collection including the collection's volume (in milliliters), the number of total cells (TNC count), the number of stem cells (CD34+ count), and a measurement of the stem cell functionality and potency (such as a colony-forming unit [CFU] count). (cryo-cell.com)
  • The TNC count, therefore, gives us the total number of many cell types but not the number of stem cells exclusively. (cryo-cell.com)
  • To count the number of total nucleated cells, a sample of the cord blood is run through a hematology analyzer, which produces a complete blood count (CBC) just as your physician does for your yearly check-up. (cryo-cell.com)
  • The number of TNCs and red blood cells (RBCs) are among the cell types counted by the machine. (cryo-cell.com)
  • This marker protein allows us to count stem cells more directly, but the marker is not exclusive to stem cells, so some other cell types will also be counted. (cryo-cell.com)
  • To count the number of cells that are positive for the CD34 protein (CD34+), a sample of the cord blood is mixed with a fluorescent dye that adheres to the CD34 antigen. (cryo-cell.com)
  • A flow cytometer uses a laser to pick up on the dye and count the number of CD34-positive cells. (cryo-cell.com)
  • During this time, the cells will begin to form colonies. (cryo-cell.com)
  • A complete blood count ( CBC ) with differential will show a low number of white blood cells called neutrophils. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Trisomy 8+ cells showed a significant positive correlation with apoptotic CD34+ cells and capacity for colony formation. (who.int)
  • The asylum seekers arrived in Colony just hours after the city supervisor sent a lengthy statement Saturday night alleging that New York City Mayor Eric Adams failed to notify the Albany County Executive Office of the plan, a violation of a county executive order issued on Tuesday. (devhardware.com)
  • 1) Brings greater accuracy to your colony counts. (apple.com)
  • Double-check feature ensures accuracy Pocket Check(Missing Parts-Only Giga S) feature stops counting and stop or pass depending on setting when an empty pocket is. (ecplaza.net)
  • Calculated according to mean census count. (cdc.gov)
  • The colony at Halley Bay colony has now all but disappeared, whilst the nearby Dawson Lambton colony has markedly increased in size, indicating that many of the adult emperors have moved there, seeking better breeding grounds as environmental conditions have changed. (bas.ac.uk)
  • These methods have a number of drawbacks including inaccuracy introduced in the dilution step and the possibility that a large number of agar plates would be required in order to produce an acceptable number of colonies per plate. (wikipedia.org)
  • That's why we have developed products specifically designed to automate colony counting and inhibition zone measurement, to relieve you of the tedium involved with these repetitive manual tasks. (synbiosis.com)
  • In general, O'Neill colonies were designed to be permanent, self-sustaining structures. (astronomy.com)
  • Provide sufficient food and water to all colony cats, daily, year-round, and in the most sanitary way possible. (princegeorgescountymd.gov)
  • Leaving food out over extended periods of time tends to attract unwanted wildlife to a colony. (princegeorgescountymd.gov)
  • Their time at these stop-over sites seems to be synchronized with peaks in local food availability , and larger colonies are better at matching their timing with the best food availability. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • 11803 Old Colony Road features 3 Beds, 2 Baths. (atproperties.com)
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  • It seems that bats from several other colonies meet at Kasanka during a short time of the year, probably to take advantage of the abundant fruit in the region. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • Counting bats at Kasanka. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • But we still had to actually count the bats. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • If a human took two minutes to count all the bats in a single video frame, it would take over 13 years to complete the job. (despojadoycaridad.com)
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  • A switchable black background is provided to enhance viewing of translucent and difficult to see colonies. (vacutec.co.za)
  • It also makes it difficult to count and assess the condition and needs of the cats. (princegeorgescountymd.gov)
  • Past estimates based on visual counts have ranged from 1 million to 10 million , a sign of how difficult the task is. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines, and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, the small city became the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses-infamous around the world as The Divorce Colony . (hachettebookgroup.com)
  • This makes it one of the biggest bat colonies in the world, and the most important in Africa. (despojadoycaridad.com)
  • By using satellite imagery to study the behaviour of this colony and its response to catastrophic sea-ice loss scientists will gain vital information about how this iconic species might cope with future environmental change. (bas.ac.uk)
  • OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. (duke.edu)
  • A time-lapse camera around 100 feet away from the colony captures a picture every minute, which is matched with data on air temperature, wind speed, humidity and solar radiation. (azocleantech.com)
  • Leaving one female cat unspayed can negate the time, work and money used to sterilize the rest of the colony. (princegeorgescountymd.gov)
  • Prior attempts by the English to colonise North America had ended in disaster the most significant example being the lost Colony of Roanoke. (markedbyteachers.com)
  • O'Neill colonies are an idea nearly as old as the space program, but they still hold value for the future. (astronomy.com)
  • And while colonies on other planets would be plagued by low gravity, long distances to Earth (leading to communication delays), and further limits down the road, those weaknesses are avoided if the colonies remain truly in space. (astronomy.com)
  • To that end, Bezos instead suggested people consider taking up residence in O'Neill colonies, a futuristic concept for space settlements first dreamed up decades ago. (astronomy.com)
  • What will space colonies be like? (astronomy.com)
  • O'Neill thought the only way humans would enjoy living in space is if our colonies were sufficiently Earthlike. (astronomy.com)
  • But building these colonies is a challenge beyond any humans have accomplished so far in space, and Bezos acknowledged that. (astronomy.com)
  • These colonies are meant to use resources gathered from space, whether asteroids, the Moon, or even Mars. (astronomy.com)
  • Censusing large congregations is especially important since these are priorities for protection, but efficiently counting hundreds of thousands of moving animals remains a challenge. (uni-konstanz.de)
  • Counting the Kasanka colony is important for another reason too. (despojadoycaridad.com)
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