In the report on specific laboratory tests in streptomycin therapy oftuberculosis (Medical Research Council, 1948) a subcommittee of the Medical Research Council recommended two techniques for the estimation of streptomycin in serum. One of these was a method involving serial dilutions in a serum-glucose-phenol-red indicator system on a waxed slide, followed by incubation in capillary tubes. Th...

Appendectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures. The surgical techniques to perform appendectomy are various, ranging from the open technique, first described by Mac Burney in 1894 and which has been the gold standard for the management of acute appendicitis for more than a century, to the standard three ports laparoscopic approach described by Semm In 1983 [1]. The Port exteriorizat...

BACKGROUND Some studies have provided evidence for a possible association between vitamin D and testosterone levels; however, the evidence from studies in Koreans is inconsistent. In addition, insufficient evidence is available to support an association between seasonal variations in vitamin D and testosterone levels in Koreans. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association between vitamin...

BACKGROUND When collecting phenotypic data in clinics across the globe, the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium (T1DGC) used several techniques that ensured consistency, completeness, and accuracy of the data. PURPOSE The aim of this article is to describe the procedures used for collection, entry, processing, and management of the phenotypic data in this international study. METHODS The T1...

BACKGROUND Some doubt the desirability and cost-effectiveness of continuing to provide an expanded scope of primary care practice. Additionally, there has been concern about declining reimbursement from Medicaid and Medicare. Although an expanded scope of patient care services are required for training, we wanted to determine whether these services drain resources and time from other primary ca...

This paper brings the intellectual tools of cognitive science to bear on resolving the “paradox of the active user” [Interfacing Thought: Cognitive Aspects of Human–Computer Interaction, Cambridge, MIT Press, MA, USA]—the persistent use of inefficient procedures in interactive tasks by experienced or even expert users when demonstrably more efficient procedures exist. The goal of this paper is ...

T he Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, formerly NCCLS) has been publishing standards and guidelines for clinicallaboratory procedures since the early 1970s. At least six documents detail proper specimen-collection and -processing procedures; most have been recently revised. The revisions reflect significant changes that all specimen-collection personnel, regardless of their pro...

Agricultural resource management is one of important technologies in agricultural application. The new technology, geo-referenced spatial multimedia has revolutionized the data collection, storage, management and display for agricultural resource management. This paper presents geo-referenced spatial multimedia technology including the system architecture, data collection procedures and data pr...