Making contact

Making Contact

Figure 1. Two views of the right hand (A and C) and the left hand (B and D) following a high-voltage electrical injury. DESCRIPTION A 31-year-old left-hand-dominant male was brought to the emergency department after contacting a high-voltage (7600 V) power line with a fiberglass extension pole. Physical examination revealed third-degree burns to the bilateral hands (Fig 1).

1 Making Contact with Observations

Making contact with sequencing's fourth generation.

Today's next-generation sequencing systems rely on optical detection to decode nucleotide sequences. But as Jeffrey Perkel reports, a new generation of optics-free sequencing instruments could result in longer reads, faster runs, and lower costs. Next-generation DNA sequencing certainly had a season for the ages in 2010. Genomes were felled by the technology on a weekly basis, it seemed, includ...

Information and Contact-Making in Policy Networks

Theory: The political information that lobbyists seek is distributed in a communications network. Individual lobbyists must therefore choose their contacts carefully. We wed rational choice theory to network analysis in a combinatorial optimization model of lobbyists’ choice of contacts in a network. The model demonstrates the growing importance of political "friends" relative to acquaintances ...

Application of Bayesian decision making tool in detecting oil-water contact in a carbonate reservoir

Detection of Oil-Water Contacts (OWCs) is one of the primary tasks before evaluation of reservoir’s hydrocarbon in place, determining net pay zones and suitable depths for perforation operation. This paper introduces Bayesian decision making tool as an effective technique in OWC detecting using wire line logs. To compare strengths of the suggested method in detecting OWC with conventional one, ...