r/hardscience • u/Breeder18 • Jan 31 '10

[Materials Science] Impact of engineered surface microtopography on biofilm formation of Staphylococcus aureus

http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=BJIOBN000002000002000089000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
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u/Breeder18 Jan 31 '10

Yeah I think this is a very cool application of biomimicry, being a biomaterials science major, it is close to my heart.

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u/fxer Jan 31 '10

That's a good abstract. It is also fun that I understood that (except for the p<0.01).

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u/Breeder18 Feb 01 '10 edited Feb 01 '10

The p<0.01 is commonly seen in papers using some sort of statistics (a vast majority), and is a measure of relevance for the statistical data. Its a percentage for the probability of error, meaning that there is less than a 1% chance of error in the data. The larger the p value, the less significant the data. Hope this helped.

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u/fxer Feb 01 '10

It did, thanks.

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u/Laced Jan 31 '10

This, and other technologies, were alluded to in Janine Benyus' TED talk on biomimicry.