This study compared the Biomic automated well reader results to the MicroScan WalkAway results for reading MicroScan antimicrobial susceptibility and identification panels at four different sites. Routine fresh clinical isolates and quality control (QC) organisms were tested at each study site. A total of 46,176 MicroScan panel drug-organism combinations were read. The Biomic category agreement...

A new algorithmic setting is proposed for the discrete-time finite-horizon linear quadratic (LQ) optimal control problem with constrained or unconstrained final state, no matter whether the problem is cheap, singular, or regular. The proposed solution, based on matrix pseudoinversion, is completed and made practically implementable by a nesting procedure for welding optimal subarcs that enables...

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics coupled to liquid chromatography has matured into an automatized, high-throughput technology, producing data on the scale of multiple gigabytes per instrument per day. Consequently, an automated quality control (QC) and quality analysis (QA) capable of detecting measurement bias, verifying consistency, and avoiding propagation of error is paramount for instrum...

in zero acceptance number sampling plans, the sample items of an incoming lot are inspected one by one. the proposed method in this research follows these rules: if the number of nonconforming items in the first sample is equal to zero, the lot is accepted but if the number of nonconforming items is equal to one, then second sample is taken and the policy of zero acceptance number would be appl...

background: the purpose of this work is to discover and analyze errors and incidents in some radiotherapy centers, and to introduce methods that could reduce their occurrences, especially those which had happened due to the use of improper and inadequate equipment. this work is a first step toward clarifying the role of education in a risk-conscious culture, and changing the attitude of radioth...

background: 66ga (t1/2=9.49 h, β+: 4.153 mev, γ: 511, 834, 1039, 2752 kev) has a wide range of applications in different fields of medical sciences. production of 66ga became one of our main interests, according to its increasing applications in nuclear medicine, particularly in pet imaging. materials and methods: 66 zn (p,n)66ga reaction was determined as the best choice for the production of ...