Two unrelated patients underwent coronary angiography and a percutaneous intervention. At the end of the procedures, blood was collected (Vacutainer® SSTTM; BD) for troponin, creatine kinase (CK), and CK-MB isoenzyme analysis. After centrifugation with the Roche Modular Pre-Analytics system (Roche Diagnostics), pipetting error alerts were triggered on the aliquoting module of the Pre-Analytics ...

To be accurate and equivalent, laboratory results should be traceable to higher-order references. Furthermore, their quality should fulfill acceptable measurement uncertainty as defined to fit the intended clinical use. With this aim, in vitro diagnostics (IVD) manufacturers should define a calibration hierarchy to assign traceable values to their system calibrators and to fulfill during this p...

Spray Diagnostics Measurements of an air blast atomizer at ambient pressure conditions are presented. The atomizer was developed by United Technologies Aerospace Systems as part of a combustor design for NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) N+2 advanced, low NOx combustor technologies program. The goals of this combustor design is to meet or exceed the N+2 LTO NOx goal of 75% reduc...

Abstract Bacterial biosensors, or bactosensors, are promising agents for medical and environmental diagnostics. However, the lack of scalable frameworks to systematically program ligand detection limits their applications. Here we show how novel, clinically relevant sensing modalities can be introduced into bactosensors in a modular fashion. To do so, have leveraged synthetic receptor platform,...

A major barrier to achieving productivity in the development of all programming applications is the poor quality and excessive number of tools that must be used to get the job done. Host attempts to find, measure, and eliminate productivity bottlenecks have focused on only one of these tools, namely higher-level languages. An example of such an attempt is the recent concern with Structured Prog...

Type inference is the compile-time process of reconstructing missing type information in a program based on the usage of its variables. ML and Haskell are two languages where this aspect of compilation has enjoyed some popularity, allowing type information to be omitted while static type checking is still performed. Type inference may be expected to have some application in the prototyping and ...

We have developed a three-dimensional Gaussian-beam ray-tracing program to aid in the design of infrared, far-infrared, and millimeter wave interferometer and polarimeter diagnostic systems for magnetic confinement fusion relevant plasma physics experiments. An overview of the program is presented along with a description of the ray-tracing algorithm. A model is developed for the case of diffra...

Automatic type inference is a popular feature of functional programming languages. Unfortunately, if the compiler cannot infer a correct typing of a program, the produced error message does not always help the programmer to fix the error. The compiler typically reports a single program location in the error message. This location is the point where the type inference failed, but not necessarily...

The U.S. Census Bureau has enhanced the X-12-ARIMA seasonal adjustment program by incorporating an improved automatic regARIMA model (regression model with ARIMA errors) selection procedure. Currently this procedure is available only in test version 0.3 of X-12ARIMA, but it will be released in a future version of the program. It is based on the automatic model selection procedure of TRAMO , an ...