BACKGROUND Internationally-accredited laboratories are recognised for their superior test reliability, operational performance, quality management and competence. In a bid to meet international quality standards, the Mozambique National Institute of Health enrolled the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL) in a continuous quality improvement process towards ISO 15189 accreditation. ...

INTRODUCTION Creative expression of scientific observations and principles through poetry and other media can enrich medical and science education. This debunks the expectation that science and poetry, for example, are mutually exclusive (Figure 1). Instead of coexisting as parallel lanes without interaction, poetry and science can cross over as one merges lanes. Kurtz and Loewenstein suggest t...

H. Ebrahimnejad, Y. Ren, S.M. Frolov, 2 I. Adagideli, J.A. Folk, and W. Wegscheider Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, 2628CJ Delft, The Netherlands Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Tuzla, Istanbul 34956, Turkey Laboratorium...

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companies must publish financial reports on time. when market information is more important and this information is used to shape more effective decision-making. although most companies, financial reports required by the authorities at intervals determined speak but at the same time, it can be claimed that the delay in publishing the financial reports of a company to another company, the differ...

3 Jin Zhang*, Peter Friedrich*, Antonio J. Pierik, Berta M. Martins, Wolfgang Buckel 4 5 Laboratorium für Mikrobiologie, Fachbereich Biologie and Synmikro, Philipps-Universität, 35032 6 Marburg, Germany; Max-Plank-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, 35043 Marburg; Institut 7 für Zytobiologie, Philipps-Universität, 35032 Marburg, Germany; Present address: Fachbereich 8 Chemie, Universität ...

Asset forfeiture laws allow the seizure of assets used in the commission of a crime. This paper examines the impact of such laws on deterrence by incorporating the possibility of asset forfeiture into the standard economic model of crime. When punishment is by a fine that can be optimally chosen, forfeiture is never optimal because of the deadweight loss it imposes in the capital market. When t...

We establish several new findings on the relation between capital flow in commodity markets and asset returns. Capital flowing into commodity markets, as measured by high open-interest growth, predicts high commodity returns and low bond returns. Open-interest growth is a more powerful and robust predictor of commodity returns than other known predictors such as the short rate, the yield spread...