Quantitative assessments from the clinical examination

Quantitative assessments of glycolysis from single cells.

The most common positron emission tomography (PET) radio-labeled probe for molecular diagnostics in patient care and research is the glucose analog, 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-D-glucose (18F-FDG). We report on an integrated microfluidics-chip/beta particle imaging system for in vitro18F-FDG radioassays of glycolysis with single cell resolution. We investigated the kinetic responses of single gliobl...

Quantitative assessments of USARSim accuracy

Effective robotic simulation depends on accurate modeling of physics and the environment as well as the robot, itself. This paper describes validation studies examining feature extraction, WaveLan radio performance, and human interaction for the USARSim robotic simulation. All four feature extraction algorithms showed strong correspondences between data collected in simulation and from real rob...

Comprehensive Examination Quantitative Methods

Reliability of pain and stiffness assessments in clinical manual lumbar spine examination.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the intertherapist reliability of judgments of stiffness and pain at L-1 to L-5 made using posteroanterior (PA) central pressure testing. SUBJECTS Three pairs of manipulative physical therapists with a minimum of 5 years of experience were asked to rate pain and stiffness in a total of 90 patients with low back pain. METHODS ...

Teaching quantitative biology: goals, assessments, and resources

More than a decade has passed since the publication of BIO2010, calling for an increased emphasis on quantitative skills in the undergraduate biology curriculum. In that time, relatively few papers have been published that describe educational innovations in quantitative biology or provide evidence of their effects on students. Using a "backward design" framework, we lay out quantitative skill ...