When to collect blood specimens: midmorning vs fasting samples

When to collect blood specimens: midmorning vs fasting samples.

This study was carried out to define the consequences of collecting blood specimens during the forenoon instead of using fasting specimens collected early in the morning. Extensive laboratory data were obtained from specimens collected from fasting participants at 0800, after breakfast at 0930, and again at 1100. The subjects were inpatients in medical and surgical wards (n = 51; 13 women and 3...

A simple device to collect, store and study samples of two-dimensional spider webs.

Silk production and spinning are the most prominent characteristics of spiders (Araneae). The high diversity of web architectures correlates both with preying behaviors and with the ultra-structure of the silk threads that compose the webs, which in turn have a corresponding diversity of silk gland spigot complements. The details of web construction, thread structure, and gland spigot morpholog...

Scalp biopsy specimens: transverse vs vertical sections.

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Flagging fasting plasma glucose specimens: time to routinely label the context in which pathology specimens are recorded.

To Collect or Not to Collect? Machine Learning for Memory Management

This article investigates how machine learning methods might enhance current garbage collection techniques in that they contribute to more adaptive solutions. Machine learning is concerned with programs that improve with experience. Machine learning techniques have been successfully applied to a number of real world problems, such as data mining, game playing, medical diagnosis, speech recognit...