Lab courses play a critical role in scientific education. Modern technology is changing the nature of the laboratories, and there is a great comparision between hands-on, simulated and remote laboratories. The remote lab technology has brought a significant improvement in communication within the Academic community and has improved students' learning experiences. There are different educational...

The study reported in the paper has focused on the identification and analysis of various causal linkages that exist in the soft systems that operate within a larger R&D organizational system and the development of a system dynamics model based on these linkages. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), a public-funded R&D organizational system in India with its constituent lab...

Approximately 1000 chimpanzees are currently held in five federally owned, or supported, US laboratories. This study reviews 110 autopsy reports on chimpanzees who died from 2001-2011 in laboratories or in sanctuaries (but who were from laboratories), in order to glean information about their premorbid health and causes of death. The findings raise questions about the health status of the chimp...

Jonathan Myers, PhD, FAHA, Chair; Ross Arena, PhD, FAHA; Barry Franklin, PhD, FAHA; Ileana Pina, MD, FAHA; William E. Kraus, MD, FAHA; Kyle McInnis, PhD; Gary J. Balady, MD, FAHA; on behalf of the American Heart Association Committee on Exercise, Cardiac Rehabilitation, and Prevention of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, the Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism, and the Cou...

The presence of acrylamide in processed starchy foods first came to the attention of the FDA on April 24, 2002, when researchers at the Swedish National Food Administration and Stockholm University reported finding acrylamide in a variety of fried and oven-baked foods. The presence of acrylamide in such foods was associated with standard high-temperature cooking processes used in their preparat...

Due to the serious financial condition of the health care insurance system in Japan, many clinical microbiology laboratories in hospitals have been forced to close or downsize, and therefore identification of pathogenic fungi isolated in these hospitals has become more and more difficult. This problem becomes even more serious when rare but clinically important fungi are the causative agents. F...

Physicians are urged to communicate more openly following medical errors, but little is known about pathologists' attitudes about reporting errors to their institution and disclosing them to patients. We undertook a survey to characterize pathologists' and laboratory medical directors' attitudes and experience regarding the communication of errors with hospitals, treating physicians, and affect...

The rapid pace of scientific progress and the growing number of medical and scientific publications have made information retrieval and the dissemination of research results crucial aspects of any recognized scientific activity. Indeed, researchers are faced with the never-ending task of keeping abreast of developments in order to update their personal knowledge and understanding in a specific ...