A technique for bacteriological sampling of hair.

Detection of breast cancer using non-invasive X-ray diffraction technique of hair: A preliminary study

Background: An early diagnosis of breast cancer relates directly to an accurate treatment plan and strategy. Early detection of breast cancer before its development would be a significant reduction of morbidity and mortality rates. The aim of this preliminary study is to investigate the sensitivity of Wide Angle X-ray diffraction (WAXRD) method on women hair samples of healthy and breast cancer...

Air sampling for respiratory disease agents in army recruits.

Sensitivity and specificity of serological and bacteriological tests for contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.

In 1990 an outbreak of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) occurred in Italy. Subsequent surveillance for CBPP was based on random sampling in bovine herds, serological controls on all animals moved from the herd of origin and controls on slaughtered animals. Official tests employed were the complement fixation test (CFT) and bacteriological isolation and typing. A total of 33,856 serum sa...

A Noninvasive Hair Sampling Technique to Obtain High Quality DNA from Elusive Small Mammals

Noninvasive genetic sampling approaches are becoming increasingly important to study wildlife populations. A number of studies have reported using noninvasive sampling techniques to investigate population genetics and demography of wild populations. This approach has proven to be especially useful when dealing with rare or elusive species. While a number of these methods have been developed to ...

Fast Random Sampling of Triangular Meshes

We present a simple and fast algorithm for generating randomly distributed points on a triangle mesh with probability density specified by a two-dimensional texture. Efficiency is achieved by resampling the density texture on an adaptively subdivided version of the input mesh. This allows us to generate the samples up to 40× faster than the rejection sampling algorithm, the fastest existing alt...