In the course of an investigation, still in progress, of the physiological activity of a group of soil organisms, it became necessary to determine the quantity of dextrose in a series of solutions. It was desirable to have a method as accurate as the Fehling gravimetric one but which would yield results about as quickly as by direct titration. The reducing sugar present in the 150 cc. of each o...

A CMOS MEMS platform for gravimetric biosensing in liquid has been fabricated and tested. The concept is an aluminum and silicon dioxide membrane, coated with polystyrene and functionalized with receptors. When the protein analyte binds to the receptors, the sensor mass increases which causes a shift in the resonant frequency. The device is electrostatically actuated and the displacement is sen...

Functionalized nanoporous materials have been developed recently as bio/chemical sensing materials. Due to the huge specific surface of the nano-materials for molecular adsorption, high hopes have been placed on gravimetric detection with micro/nano resonant cantilevers for ultra-sensitive sensing of low-concentration bio/chemical substances. In order to enhance selectivity of the gravimetric r...

Great uncertainty exists around indoor biomass burning exposure-disease relationships due to lack of detailed exposure data in large health outcome studies. Passive nephelometers can be used to estimate high particulate matter (PM) concentrations during cooking in low resource environments. Since passive nephelometers do not have a collection filter they are not subject to sampler overload. Nep...

This prospective study was done at the Southern Railway Headquarters Hospital, Ayanavaram, Chennai to measure the intraoperative blood loss during adenotonsillectomy and to assess the factors affecting it. Since blood volume in children is low, even a small loss will result in dreaded complications, so blood loss measurement in paediatric surgery is important. Adenotonsillectomy is the most com...

Quality control of microdevices adds significant costs, in time and money, to any fabrication process. A simple, rapid quantitative method for the post-fabrication characterization of microchannel architecture using the measurement of flow with volumes relevant to microfluidics is presented. By measuring the mass of a dye solution passed through the device, it circumvents traditional gravimetri...

A significant difference between the reported volumes delivered by a fluid-filled automated liquid-handling system with eight stainless steel fixed tips was observed when a gravimetric method and a dual dye photometric method were used to measure delivered volumes between 20 and 200 microL. A series of experiments, using the default pipetting parameters, was performed which demonstrated that th...