Currently most biomedical labs in universities and government funded research institutions use paper lab notebooks for recording experimental data and spreadsheets for managing sample data. One consequence is that sample management and documenting experiments are viewed as separate and distinct activities, notwithstanding that samples and aliquots are an integral part of a majority of the exper...

In this paper, a coordination approach for thermostat-controlled household appliances is developed. Under consideration are heating and cooling devices such as refrigerators, freezers, water boilers and heat pumps, which are usually characterized by an intermittent (duty cycle) operation. Without influence from the outside, an internal hysteresis switching controller toggles the ”on/off” state ...

• Patients in general and rare disease patients in particular, are in dire need of treatments. They are placing high expectations on ESC research. • Eurordis considers that individuals must have free choice of therapy, and that they should be free to refuse or demand treatments issued from ESC research. • Eurordis is concerned that the current debate could deprive products derived from ESC rese...

Freezing of gait (FOG) is difficult to measure due to its unpredictable occurrence. This study investigated: (1) whether the new freezing of gait questionnaire (NFOG-Q) is a reliable measure of freezing by comparing patients' ratings with those of carers' and (2) whether adding a video improved its reliability. Non-demented people with Parkinson's disease (PD) (N=102) and their carers of simila...

To date, little has been written about the implementation of utilizing food safety informatics as a technological tool to protect consumers, in real-time, against foodborne illnesses. Food safety outbreaks have become a major public health problem, causing an estimated 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. Yet, government inspectors/regulators t...

BACKGROUND Despite having the technical facilities and the knowledge, Chile did not have a tumor bank until recently. AIM To describe the results of the first three years of a tumor bank. MATERIAL AND METHODS All cases stored in a tumor bank from June 2004 to June 2007 were included. Samples were frozen in isopentane, afterwards in liquid nitrogen and finally transferred to freezers at -80 ...

In this paper we propose an approach by which the energy efficiency of individual appliances can be estimated from an aggregate load. To date, energy disaggregation research has presented results for small data sets of 7 households or less, and as a result the generality of results are often unknown. In contrast, we have deployed household electricity sensors to 117 households and evaluated the...

District heating and cooling (DHC) systems have been actively introduced as energy supply systems in urban areas. Since there exist a number of large-size freezers, heat exchangers and boilers in a DHC plant to generate and supply cold water, hot water and steam to a DHC system, the control under an operation plan for these instruments on the basis of the demand of cold water, hot water and ste...

Freezing of gait is a paroxysmal and disabling symptom that commonly affects patients in the latter stages of Parkinson's disease, however the intermittent nature of this symptom makes it difficult to study in the clinical setting. Our research group has previously reported a correlation between self-reported freezing of gait symptoms and performance on a seated virtual reality gait task. In th...

OBJECTIVE Freezing of gait (FOG) in Parkinson's disease (PD) may involve specific impairments in acquiring automaticity under working memory load. This study examined whether implicit sequence learning, with or without a secondary task, is impaired in patients with FOG. METHOD Fourteen freezers (FRs), 14 nonfreezers (nFRs), and 14 matched healthy controls (HCs) performed a serial reaction tim...