serial number

Examples of serial number in the following topics:

• Are Real Dice Fair?

  • A fair die has an equal probability of landing face-up on each number.
  • A die (plural dice) is a small throw-able object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.
  • An example of a traditional die is a rounded cube, with each of its six faces showing a different number of dots (pips) from one to six.
  • Thus, they are a type of hardware random number generator.
  • All such dice are stamped with a serial number to prevent potential cheaters from substituting a die.

• Viable Cell Counting

  • Plate counting is used to estimate the number of viable cells that are present in a sample.
  • There are a variety of ways to enumerate the number of bacteria in a sample.
  • The initial analysis is done by mixing serial dilutions of the sample in liquid nutrient agar which is then poured into bottles.
  • The total number of colonies is referred to as the Total Viable Count (TVC).
  • Examples of a viable cell count are spread plates from a serial dilution of a liquid culture and pour plates.

• Memory Retrieval: Recognition and Recall

  • There are three main types of recall studied in psychology: serial recall, free recall, and cued recall.
  • This is called serial recall and can be used to help cue memories.
  • Serial recall helps a person to remember the order of events in his or her life.
  • Like serial recall, free recall is subject to the primacy and recency effects.
  • This is what is happening when you have trouble remembering your new phone number because your old one is stuck in your head.

• Aseptic Technique, Dilution, Streaking, and Spread Plates

  • A serial dilution is the step-wise dilution of a substance in solution.
  • A ten-fold serial dilution could be 1 M, 0.1 M, 0.01 M, 0.001 M...
  • Serial dilutions are used to accurately create highly-diluted solutions as well.
  • The solution is then spread uniformly through a number of possible means, the most popular is the use of sterile glass beads that are shook on top of the media, spreading the microbe-containing liquid evenly on the plate.
  • Example of Serial dilution of bacteria in five steps.

• Short-term gains, long-term pain

  • With a growing number of consumers and consumer groups on the lookout for disingenuous companies and their greenwashing campaigns, it's becoming increasingly difficult to get away with making deliberately false claims in order to obtain a short-term influx of revenue.
  • For example, MacMillan Bloedel, one of Canada's largest forest product companies, was labelled a serial forest-clearer and a chronic chlorine user by environmental activists and subsequently lost 5% of its sales almost overnight when it was dropped as a UK supplier by Scott Paper and Kimberley Clark.

• Serial and Parallel Processing

  • Serial memory processing compares a memory to a target stimulus, while parallel processing carries out multiple operations simultaneously.
  • Serial memory processing is the act of attending to and processing one item at a time.
  • The serial order of items and the relationships between them can have varying affects on the item's speed and accuracy of recall.
  • Serial memory processing can be either self-terminating or exhaustive.
  • Participants may process some serial memory sets using the self-terminating method and in other cases use the exhaustive method.

• Other Types of Bonds

  • Convertible bonds are bonds that let a bondholder exchange a bond for a number of shares of the issuer's common stock.
  • Often they are registered by a number to prevent counterfeiting, but may be traded like cash.
  • A serial bond is a bond that matures in installments over a period of time.
  • In effect, a $100,000, 5-year serial bond would mature in a $20,000 annuity over a 5-year interval.

• Types of Bonds

  • Serial bonds in a given bond issue have maturities spread over several dates.
  • These bonds have a stipulated conversion rate of some number of shares for each USD 1,000 bond.

• Overall Structure and Formatting of a Chicago/Turabian Paper

  • Page numbers in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3…) should appear right-justified in the header of every page, beginning with the number 1 on the first page of text.
  • Most word-processing programs have the ability to automatically add the correct page number to each page so you don’t have to do this by hand.
  • The Oxford comma (also called the serial comma) is the comma that comes after the second-to-last item in a series or list.

• Dilutions of Solutions

  • Serial dilutions involve diluting a stock or standard solution multiple times in a row.
  • For example, a ten-fold serial dilution could result in the following concentrations: 1 M, 0.1 M, 0.01 M, 0.001 M, and so on.
  • Serial dilutions are used to accurately create extremely diluted solutions, as well as solutions for experiments that require a concentration curve with an exponential or logarithmic scale.
  • Serial dilutions are widely used in experimental sciences, including biochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology, and physics.