krellor

I am currently conducting a series of experiments on common chemicals that act on the CNS. As part of my study I wish to test the effects of various agents on the growth of tumorous cells in plants. My question is two part. First, are there any recommendations for a plant species to use? The primarily criteria is that it is a chlorophyll producing plant and that it does not naturally produce any xanthines. The second part of the question is how to trigger tumorous growth in the plant? I would prefer to use a chemical agent for the trigger, but I suppose I could try irradiating or other methods, although that method may invalidate some of my findings. If you know of any white papers on subjects that may get me started I would certainly appreciate knowing their source. As always, all help, suggestions, and questions are welcome. Edit: 12/13/2007 After speaking a biologist who specializes in plant transformation we decided that the best method would be to grow cells on auger, and through the use of hormones create a cell state analogous to tumorous growth. If anyone is interested in my results of growing the tumorous cells message me and in 6 months I will hopefully be able to provide an update on the success or failure of the cells. Krellor

In my experience procrastination is caused by you not wanting your classes or what they will get you enough. I know that my strategy for staying on top of work I don't like is to focus on what my ultimate goal is. I would try that. If that doesn't do it for you then maybe you need to re-think your goals and find one that really motivates you.

I would say no. I would say that the teaching of math is fundamentally flawed. I didn't really understand number systems until I learned binary and hex math functions for CS. Once I sat down and studied number systems, I was able to understand why a lot of the common operations work and why they are formated the way they are, rather than just trusting my teacher on how it should be done. I think that in general students are taught the motions of math and science, but not the real underpinnings. As I have gotten older I also seem to notice that the younger generation coming into college seem less and less prepared, but that could just me entering the fogie stage.

I do understand your position, but again, if I were you, I would seek more details. Ask what the mean line speed is in the rural areas that are projected to have trouble. Also, if the problem is that they have slow connections, the sims should still work, they will just have a long download time. By rural sites I am assuming you mean in the sticks where they have little infrastructure. If that is the case then I don't think much can be done except to optimize your sims and site as much as possible, enable compression, and try to shrink the page sizes as much as possible. This might include having a high and low band version of the training, where the low band one has fewer graphics, or in a lower resolution and more compressed format. If you do happen to get more information on the problem I would be more than happy to give you my .02 however much that is worth. Good luck.

peroxide is used as a whitening agent, if you want a specific account of it you can probably get a pretty good description from a google search. There has been some uncertainty about it's affect on protective enamel. So, is it safe to swish around? Yes. Is it safe to swish around every day forever? I don't know. I would ask a dentist.

The thing with wan scaler is that if all that is being transmited is a website, then it won't help you any more than enabling compression on your webserver would. That might be an avenue to explore. To be honest though, there is not enough information here. As I said above, I think your scenario is number three from my above post, and then your options are increase the speed at the user end, or decrease the size of what needs to be sent. To start with optimize your flash, and then enable compression on your servers. All WANscaler is is a point to point tunnel that compresses traffic. Also, you could look into the traffic generated by a thinclient versus the traffic generated by the site and see which is greater. Anyway, good luck, but if you want a more detailed suggestion than I need more specifics.

What it sounds like to me is that the remote training sites have a slow connection. That is what I assume you mean by a slow pipeline to the training sites. If that is indeed the problem then I am afraid there really isn't much to do about it. Consider the following scenarios. 1) I have a server hosting a website, and a dedicated T3 (fast) connection for it. But my server is slow and the pages load slowly. The only way to fix that is to get a faster server or otherwise optimize the application. 2) I have a server hosting the website, and the server is smoking fast, but I am using my home DSL connection to connect it to the internet, and the web pages load slowly. The fix there is to get a faster connection (like the above T3). 3) I have a server hosting a website and I have a smoking web farm with redundant T3 connections, but my visitors are connecting to the internet over dialup, and the pages load slow. In this case you can't do anything because it is the other ends problem. I think that your problem as you described it falls into scenario number three (maybe minus the smoking server farm and redundant T3). If the WAN connections at the remote locations are slow, i.e. shared DSL or dialup, then there isn't much you could do except put up a server on their local intranet and hope their internal infrastructure can handle the load. I think for your sake you should request more information, preferably a writeup on the problem so that you can pass it along to us to help with. I don't think that you have adequate information to really come up with a solution at this time. Also, like Cap'n above said, it is crucial to know whether the training is some sort of web based training, or some server-based app that is being server through some sort of client. Good luck.

I guess in order to help I need a little more information. Typically Citrix Presentation Server is used to let remote users run local system apps as if they were installed at their terminal. My question then is whether the training you offer is web based or system based. Also, since you anticipate the bandwidth bottleneck to be in the server room, I don't see how adding an abstraction between the users and the main server (main-frame?) will help that unless you are replacing some sort of fat client with a thin client connection. Basically, if you are having bandwidth problems in the server room there are two main things to do. The first is to upgrade your internal infrastructure. Second is to get a larger WAN connection. I don't know the size of company we are talking here. I get the feeling that maybe there was some confusion as to whether the bottleneck is bandwidth or processing power. If the bottleneck is processing power and the training is web based, then I would make a web cluster (farm) with a load balancing server. I personally find that to be simpler than implementing citrix. On the other hand, if the applications are system apps than I would need to know more about how they are currently delivered to the clients for training before I could give you a comparison between that method and CPS. Good luck and hopefully I am not just confused or confusing you. Krellor

I don't know that sulfuric acid will be a better electrolyte than KOH but either one would do the job. Also, the graphite rods may or may not work depnding on the current density at work here. As to getting the hydrogen and oxygen seperate, like I said, all you should need is a physical device to capture the gasses seperately. I have seen extremely complex devices that actually utilize the difference in molecule size to get the hydrogen and oxygen to go to different chambers. However, for a simplistic example, you could simply hold a test tube over the anodes to capture the gasses individually. I did a quick google img search and found this: http://www.miniscience.com/images/WaterElectrolisis.gif That is a crude method. If you want me to elaborate on some of the more sophisicated physical devices I can do so and give you some links as well. Good luck.

A few things. To help with the oxidation of your anodes I would suggest two possibilities. The first is carbon (graphite) rods. However, these may not be suitable due to their tendency to fall apart with high current density. The other option would be sintered nickel plates. Either way, however you overcome the oxidation, once you have the gasses forming you shouldn't give them a chance to combine. The method for seperating them would be a pointless difficulty as you will already have your hands full just purifying them. In the solution you described the hydrogen should form from the negative current, and oxygen from the positive. I would then build some sort of separator that would allow the hydrogen and oxygen to be routed to different chambers. I am note sure where the vacuum factors in. If I have misunderstood your project, please elaborate and I will offer what advice I can.