Volume 25 Number 1 February 2019


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Dear Abbe


Dear Abbe, Tis is more of personnel problem, I fear, but given your


personal experience in dealing with, ah, unusual problems, you may be able to help us. I was recently working on the lab’s Interocitor, when I was called away by colleagues trying to get a colloidal gold-conjugated antibody sample from another researcher. He was crouched in a corner hissing at the others and stroking the vials, whispering “my birthday presents, yesss my preciouss.” Short of throwing him in a vat of boiling bovine serum albumin, what should we have done? Exasperated in Exeter


Dear Exasperated, Ach. As you have unfortunately noted, my personnel prob-


Microscopic Chemical Characterization and Reactivity in Cementing Systems of Elephant Grass Leaf Ashes Josefa Roselló, Lourdes Soriano, Holmer Savastano Jr, M. Victoria Borrachero, Pilar Santamarina and Jordi Payá


Secondary fluorescence in WDS: the role of spectrometer positioning Ben Buse, Jon Wade, Xavier Llovet, Stuart Kearns and John J. Donovan


Multi-Angle Plasma Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Curtaining Artifact Correction Using a Fourier-Based Linear Optimization Model Christopher W. Schankula, Christopher K. Anand and Nabil D. Bassim


Ultrastructural Deformities in the Scales of Cyprinus carpio Inhabiting Two Government- Sponsored Fish Farms in North-East India Contaminated by Municipal Wastes and Other Pollutants Eva M. Pala


Functional Imaging of Neurotransmitters in Hymenolepis diminuta Treated with Senna Plant Trough Light and Confocal Microscopy Bidisha Ukil, Suman Kundu and Larisha Mawkhlieng Lyndem


Tree-Dimensional Reconstruction of Erythrocytes Using the Novel Method For Corrective Realignment of the Transmission Electron Microscopy Cross-Section Images Yuzhou Fan, Djordje Antonijević, Xing Zhong, Vladimir S. Komlev, Zhiyu Li, Marija Đurić and Yifang Fan


Morphological Properties of the Two Types of Caudate Interneurons: Kohonen Self- Organizing Maps and Correlation-Comparison Analysis Ivan Grbatinić, Bojana Krstonošić, Dušica Marić and Nebojša Milošević


Microstructural, Mineralogical and Petrographical Characteristics of the Medieval Ceramics from the Studenica Monastery (Unesco World Heritage Site): Implications on the Pottery Technology and Provenance of Te Raw Material Kristina Šarić, Vesna Bikić and Suzana Erić


Electron Beam-Induced Carbon Erosion and the Impact on Electron Probe Microanalysis Mike B. Matthews, Stuart L. Kearns and Ben Buse


Effect of Heavy Metals Contamination from Cigarette Smoke on Sound and Caries-Like Enamel Jéssica D. Teobaldo, Waldemir F. Vieira-Junior, Anderson Catelan, Maria do Carmo A. Mainardi, Orlando A. Ysnaga, Ubirajara P. Rodrigues-Filho, Giselle Maria Marchi, Débora A. Lima and Flávio H. B. Aguiar


Weka Trainable Segmentation Plugin in ImageJ: A Semi-Automatic Tool Applied to Crystal Size Distributions of Microlites in Volcanic Rocks Charline Lormand, Georg F. Zellmer, Károly Németh, Geoff Kilgour, Stuart Mead, Alan S. Palmer, Naoya Sakamoto, Hisayoshi Yurimoto and Anja Moebis


Compressed Sensing of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) With Nonrectangular Scans Xin Li, Ondrej Dyck, Sergei V. Kalinin, and Stephen Jesse


A New and Unexpected Spatial Relationship Between Interaction Volume and Diffraction Pattern in Electron Microscopy in Transmission Etienne Brodu, and Emmanuel Bouzy


Te Impact of Two Combined Oral Contraceptives Containing Ethinyl Estradiol and Drospirenone on Whole Blood Clot Viscoelasticity and the Biophysical and Biochemical Characteristics of Erythrocytes Odette Emmerson, Janette Bester, Barend G. Lindeque and Albe C. Swanepoel


Exploring Photothermal Pathways via in Situ Laser Heating in the Transmission Electron Microscope: Recrystallization, Grain Growth, Phase Separation, and Dewetting in Ag0.5Ni0.5 Tin Films Yueying Wu, Chenze Liu, Tomas M. Moore, Gregory A. Magel, David A. Garfinkel, Jon P. Camden, Michael G. Stanford, Gerd Duscher and Philip D. Rack


Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Stiffness and Adhesion by [Ca2 + ]i: An Atomic Force Microscopy-Based Study Yi Zhu, Li He, Jing Qu and Yong Zhou


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lems tend to devolve into personal problems, so I can relate to your difficulty. I usually encounter cases of pathological obses- sions like this gentleman’s when talking to administrators about getting a share of the indirect costs of our grants. One thing you can do in cases like this is to distract your colleague with a bigger prize from someone else’s lab. Just be sure to gra- ciously let some Sündenbock take the credit for the distraction. Another alternative is to contact my personal friend, Madam Dikroic, and let her assemble a team of scientific misfits to sub- due the man and destroy the One Vial that binds them all.


Dear Abbe, We have a problem with our experimental animal facility


where the fire/smoke alarms go off every so oſten (testing?). It only lasts about 30 seconds and does not bother the staff too much. Our problem is with our rabbits. Tey are so disturbed by the alarms that they no longer breed. A rabbit specialist has informed us that it is the frequency. However, if we change to a frequency that does not affect the rabbits, then our staff are unaware of the alarm. Is there something you have encoun- tered that would solve this dilemma? Interrupted in Instanbul


Dear Interrupted, I am confused why you would worry about the staff—the


rabbits are obviously more important. I can easily relate to the frustrated bucks. My current wife insists that the frequency of my nocturnal sonorous emissions kill her desire for most everything. So I ended up with a CPAP to counter my nightly growling. Now the rhythmic, Darth Vader-like breathing is allegedly forcing her to stay chaste, sometimes in another room. I decided to try noise-canceling technology, which improved our interpersonal interactions—we can’t hear each other prattling on. I can live with that.


Interpersonal relationships are hard. Have Herr Abbe pro-


vide a reasonably useful solution and then be entertained by the results! Cast your relational worries on his loyal assistant at jpshield@uga.edu.


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