Schlosser, the author of "Fast Food Nation," turns his attention to three facets of America's estimated $650 billion underground economy, blending big-picture analyses with fascinating individual case studies.
The rate of the film formation was quantified by video monitoring followed by picture analyses.
Using picture analyses of polychaete movements, we showed that, paradoxically, an increase in SPM concentration did not adversely affect the feeding activity of S. alveolata since the number of filtering individuals remained stable from SPM = 6.5 to 55.5 mg L− 1.
Extensive fine-tuning of each step was performed to define an optimal method, and results of picture analyses were manually checked on several hundreds of cells to verify the validity of measures recorded.
For image analyses all pictures were processed and quantified with ImageJ software.
42 clinical pictures were analysed.
The images were captured using a digital camera, and all the DGGE gel pictures were analysed using the Phoretix 1D analysis software.
Digital pictures were analysed using the Adobe Photoshop pixel measuring tool.
Microscopic pictures were analysed with Volocity 6.2 Cellular Imaging & Analysis Software (PerkinElmer).
Pictures were analysed using a Canon camera (Krefeld, Germany).
