Optimal Environmental Temperature for Laboratory Dogs

ENE 806 Laboratory Feasibility Studies for Environmental Remediation Temperature Effects On Oxygen Uptake Rate

Environmental Monitoring Station for Mars Science Laboratory

The Viking Landers measured pressure, wind speed and direction, and air temperature with a small boom [1]. Mars Pathfinder had the Atmospheric Structure Instrument on its lander and recorded pressure, air temperature and wind direction [2]. MSL has environment sensors within its payload as well: it is the REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) instrument, which is in charge of recording ...

Optimal potentials for temperature ratchets.

In a spatially periodic temperature profile, directed transport of an overdamped Brownian particle can be induced along a periodic potential. With a load force applied to the particle, this setup can perform as a heat engine. For a given load, the optimal potential maximizes the current and thus the power output of the heat engine. We calculate the optimal potential for different temperature pr...

Optimal pooling strategies for laboratory testing

We consider the optimal strategy for laboratory testing of biological samples when we wish to know the results for each sample rather than the average prevalence of positive samples. If the proportion of positive samples is low considerable resources may be devoted to testing samples most of which are negative. An attractive strategy is to pool samples. If the pooled samples test positive one m...

Optimal Policies for Clinical Laboratory Quality Control

This research is concerned with the overall sensitivity, specificity, and cost of clinical laboratory screening processes, with particular focus on the policy currently required by the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments Act (CLIA) for screening Pap smears for early indications of cervical cancer. The objectives are to develop and apply statistical and economic methods, similar to those...