Hematology: Principles and Procedures

Principles of Hematology

This volume consists of the proceedings of a symposium held in June 1965, the first symposium sponsored by the Nobel Foundation. In many ways it represents a second symposium, its predecessor being that held in Hong Kong on the same subject in 1961. The content has to do with muscle receptors, afferent fibers (hence the distortion of afferent as noun), and the central nervous system mechanisms ...

Hematology Physiologic, Pathophysiologic, and Clinical Principles

Flow cytometry: principles and clinical applications in hematology.

The use of flow cytometry in the clinical laboratory has grown substantially in the past decade. This is attributable in part to the development of smaller, user-friendly, less-expensive instruments and a continuous increase in the number of clinical applications. Flow cytometry measures multiple characteristics of individual particles flowing in single file in a stream of fluid. Light scatteri...

Principles and Procedures of Exploratory Data Analysis

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a well-established statistical tradition that provides conceptual and computational tools for discovering patterns to foster hypothesis development and refinement. These tools and attitudes complement the use of significance and hypothesis tests used in confirmatory data analysis (CDA). Although EDA complements rather than replaces CDA, use of CDA without EDA ...

Principles and procedures in forensic toxicology.

The principles and procedures employed in a modern forensic toxicology lab are detailed in this review. Aspects of Behavioral and Postmortem toxicology, including certification of analysts and accreditation of labs, chain of custody requirements, typical testing services provided, rationale for specimen selection, and principles of quality assurance are discussed. Interpretation of toxicology r...