I am currently interested in acetoin and its odor. From what I’ve read,
at small concentrations, acetoin has a pleasant buttery odor.

Does acetoin stink like rotten cheese at much higher concentrations?

I asked because many other odorous compounds I’ve looked at often have a
pleasant smell at small concentrations but start to stink at high
concentrations. For example, butryic acid and diacetyl smell like fresh
butter at low level but as the concentration is increased, either of
those two chemicals will start to smell like stinky feet/decomposed
cheese. In another example, indole and skatole smell like jasmine at low
concentrations but at high level [surprise!] they smell like feces.

Is the same true for acetoin?

Thanks,

Radium

http://sciencearticle.googlepages.com

Confused,

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with
those who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, MSV’08
———————–

        Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 10, 2008

              C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
              ===============================

       The 2008 International Conference on Modeling,
           Simulation and Visualization Methods
                         MSV’08

    Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas
at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University,
University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences,
European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others
(see below).  Corporate sponsors include Google, Salford Systems,
and NIIT.

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration.  All accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

MSV’08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.  The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP’08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

  O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
  O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
  O  Simulation languages
  O  Molecular modeling and simulation
  O  Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
  O  Modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile
     environments
  O  Performance Evaluation and Simulation Tools
  O  Modeling and simulation tools for nanotechnology
  O  Real-time modeling and simulation
  O  Geometric modeling
  O  Information and scientific visualization
  O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
  O  Modeling methodologies
  O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
  O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
  O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
  O  Java-based modelers
  O  Scalability issues
  O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
  O  Finite and boundary element techniques
  O  Process simulation/modeling
  O  Device simulation/modeling
  O  Circuit simulation/modeling
  O  Multi-level modeling
  O  Prototyping and simulation
  O  Biomedical visualization and applications
  O  Databases and visualization
  O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
  O  Parallel and distributed simulation
  O  Discrete and numeric simulation
  O  Internet, web and security visualization
  O  Virtual reality and simulation
  O  Virtual environments and data visualization
  O  Tools and applications
  O  Object-oriented simulation
  O  Knowledge-based simulation
  O  Simulation of machine architectures
  O  Simulation of wireless systems
  O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
  O  CAD/CAE/CAM
  O  Emerging technologies and applications

Web site of MSV’08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/msv08
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

   MSV’08 is part of WORLDCOMP’08.  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
   gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
   and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint
conferences.
   Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
   presentation of advances in their respective fields.  We anticipate
   to have over 2,600 attendees from over 80 countries participating
in
   the 2008 event.  MSV’08 will be composed of research
presentations,
   keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
   and poster presentations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
   (about 5 to 7 pages – single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia by March 10, 2008 (h…@cs.uga.edu). email
   submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All
reasonable
   typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
   papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
   to prepare their papers for publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
   7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
published
   or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page
of
   the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
   postal address, and email address of each author as well as the
name
   of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, MSV’08).
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.

   Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
   independent of the conference program committee.  The referees’
   evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
   committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the
track.
   The track chairs will make the final decision.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   March 10, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
   April 7, 2008:     Notification of acceptance
   April 28, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Modeling,
                      Simulation, and Visualization Methods (MSV’08)

GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR:

   Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
   Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
   Vice President, Int’l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   The University of Georgia
   Department of Computer Science
   415 Graduate Studies Research Center
   Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

   Tel: (706) 542-3480
   Fax: (706) 542-2966
   E-mail: h…@cs.uga.edu

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

   MSV will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
   USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is a mega
   hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
   It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
   from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
   including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool,
   lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, …
   The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
reasonable.
   The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions.

MULTICONFERENCE SPONSORS (this is a partial list):

   Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   –>  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   –>  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   –>  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
   –>  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota,
USA
   –>  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
        Urbana-Champaign, USA
   –>  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
        of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   –>  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory,
University
        of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
   –>  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University
and
        MIT, USA
   –>  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
        Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   –>  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   –>  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
        College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   –>  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
        University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   –>  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
   –>  PSU – Prince Sultan University
   –>  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
   –>  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
        Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   –>  Google, Inc.
   –>  Salford Systems
   –>  NIIT Technologies

Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   –>  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
   –>  International Technology Institute (ITI)
   –>  GridToday – enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
        Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
   –>  HPCwire – The Leading Source for Global News and Information
        Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
   –>  Hodges’ Health (H2CM), UK

If I had to guess by gut I would say one third because that is about what
they put in drywall mud, right?  And that it was probably the same kind of
Vermont white asbestos as plaster.  I know it isn’t sand because in 1994 I
hit it with a hammer (I was hitting a nail on the wall and the hammer scraped
the ceiling) and it was white dust. I know the new textures are like chaulk
foam, so I gotta believe there was something other than just asbestos in the
old "sand" paint. I remember like in 1975 when I read the contents of a
gallon of "sand paint" and I was surprised it said it had asbestos.

Titrate?  Or "measure by any reasonable means"?
Try atomic absorption or ICP.

Have you checked textbooks of inorganic analysis (e.g., Vogel or
Kolthoff)?

Is this an academic inquiry or business related?  If you just need the
number and don’t care about the method or don’t have an AA or ICP, a
business will just send their samples to a lab for analysis (Yellow
Pages for local listings; internet to send samples anywhere in the
world, also with quick turnaround).

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with
those who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, CSC’08
———————–

        Extended Paper Submission Deadline: March 10, 2008

              C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
              ===============================

           The 2008 International Conference on
                  Scientific Computing
                        CSC’08
   Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

           http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

Academic Sponsors include research labs at: Harvard University,
MIT, UCLA, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas
at Austin, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Emory University,
University of North Dakota, PSU/Saudi, Russian Academy of Sciences,
European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics, and others
(see below).  Corporate sponsors include Google, Salford Systems,
and NIIT.

You are invited to submit a paper for consideration.  All accepted
papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

CSC’08 will be held in Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.  The
conference will be held simultaneously (ie, same location and dates)
with WORLDCOMP’08 (The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing).

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the
following:

  O  Inversion problems
  O  Computational physics
  O  Computational chemistry
  O  Mathematical modeling
  O  Computational models
  O  Computational fluid dynamics
  O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
  O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
  O  Scientific visualization
  O  Numerical methods and simulation
  O  Ordinary and partial differential equations
  O  Molecular dynamics
  O  Stochastic differential equations
  O  Optimization and optimal control
  O  Finite element methods
  O  Software architectures for scientific computing
  O  Scientific computing and supercomputing benchmark design
  O  domain decomposition methods
  O  Seismic data processing
  O  Multi-level and Multi-grid methods
  O  Iterative methods
  O  Krylov methods
  O  Level-set methods
  O  Atmospheric science
  O  Integral equations
  O  Operational research
  O  Dynamical systems
  O  Generalized eigen-problems
  O  Coupled problems
  O  Nonsymmetric solvers
  O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
  O  Computational electromagnetics
  O  Computational electrodynamics
  O  Numerical linear algebra
  O  Approximation theory
  O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
  O  Mathematical software tools
  O  Splines and wavelets and applications
  O  Engineering problems and emerging applications
  O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics,
chemistry,
     biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production
scheduling,
     automotive industry, …

Web site of CSC’08:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/csc08
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

   CSC’08 is part of WORLDCOMP’08.  WORLDCOMP is the largest annual
   gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering
   and applied computing; it is composed of a number of joint
conferences.
   Many of these joint conferences are the premier conferences for
   presentation of advances in their respective fields.  We anticipate
   to have over 2,600 attendees from over 80 countries participating
in
   the 2008 event.  CSC’08 will be composed of research
presentations,
   keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel
discussions,
   and poster presentations.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

   Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
   (about 5 to 7 pages – single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
   Prof. H. R. Arabnia by March 10, 2008 (h…@cs.uga.edu). email
   submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All
reasonable
   typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
   papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
   to prepare their papers for publication.)

   The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
to
   7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
published
   or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page
of
   the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name,
affiliation,
   postal address, and email address of each author as well as the
name
   of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, CSC’08).
   The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
   and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
   content of the paper.

   Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
   independent of the conference program committee.  The referees’
   evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
   committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the
track.
   The track chairs will make the final decision.

IMPORTANT DATES:

   March 10, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
   April 7, 2008:     Notification of acceptance
   April 28, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
   July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Scientific
                      Computing (CSC’08)

GENERAL CO-CHAIR / COORDINATOR:

   Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
   Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
   Vice President, Int’l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   The University of Georgia
   Department of Computer Science
   415 Graduate Studies Research Center
   Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

   Tel: (706) 542-3480
   Fax: (706) 542-2966
   E-mail: h…@cs.uga.edu

LOCATION OF CONFERENCE:

   CSC’08 will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada,
   USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is a mega
   hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000 rooms.
   It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle service to and
   from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational attractions,
   including: spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy River, wave pool,
   lighted tennis courts, nightly shows, a number of restaurants, …
   The negotiated room rate for conference attendees is very
reasonable.
   The hotel is within walking distance from most other attractions.

MULTICONFERENCE SPONSORS (this is a partial list):

   Academic/Technical Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   –>  Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   –>  International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
   –>  Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA
   –>  Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota,
USA
   –>  Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
        Urbana-Champaign, USA
   –>  BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
        of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   –>  Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory,
University
        of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
   –>  Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University
and
        MIT, USA
   –>  Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
        Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
   –>  Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   –>  Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
        College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   –>  Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
        University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
   –>  The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
   –>  PSU – Prince Sultan University
   –>  Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
   –>  NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
        Geometry, TU Vienna

Corporate Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   –>  Google, Inc.
   –>  Salford Systems
   –>  NIIT Technologies

Other Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

   –>  High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
   –>  International Technology Institute (ITI)
   –>  GridToday – enewsletter focused on Grid, SOA, Virtualization,
        Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented IT
   –>  HPCwire – The Leading Source for Global News and Information
        Covering the Ecosystem of High Productivity Computing
   –>  Hodges’ Health (H2CM), UK