There is a paucity of papers dealing with the system characteristics of laboratories or, to put it another way, the institutional character of research organizations. Neither R&D economics nor the sociology of science, as traditionally conceived, has made much headway in providing insight into sets of R&D laboratories and their evolution. Drawing upon an empirical study in the plant breeding an...

During a health centre screening programme for men aged 60 years and over, the urinary dipstick results of 58 patients found to have microscopic haematuria were compared with the results of immediate microscopy at the health centre and routine microscopy by a hospital laboratory. There was agreement between a positive dipstick test for haematuria and the presence of red cells at routine microsc...

INTRODUCTION Poor harmonization of critical results management is present in various laboratories and countries, including Croatia. We aimed to investigate procedures used in critical results reporting in Croatian medical biochemistry laboratories (MBLs). MATERIALS AND METHODS An anonymous questionnaire, consisting of 24 questions/statements, related to critical results reporting procedures, ...

Latent damage effects from single-event latchup are studied, revealing a previously unconsidered reliability hazard for CMOS devices. Several device types were found to remain functional despite significant structural damage to their interconnects from SEL. Latent Damage in CMOS Devices from Single-Event Latchup Heidi N. Becker, Tetsuo F. Miyahira, and Allan H. Johnston Jet Propulsior? Laborato...

An intercomparison of spectral irradiance measurements by 12 national laboratories has been carried out between 1987 and 1990. The intercomparison was conducted under the auspices of the Comité Consultatif de Photometrie et Radiometrie (CCPR) of the Comité International des Poids et Mesures, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) served as the pilot laboratory. The spectr...

In Alphabetic Order: Les Atlas (University of Washington), George Bloor (Boeing), Tom Brotherton (IAC), Larry Howard (Institute for Software Integrated Systems), Link Jaw (Scientific Monitoring Inc.), Greg KACPRZYNSKI (Impact Technologies), Gabor Karsai (Institute for Software Integrated Systems), Ryan Mackey (Jet Propulsion Laboratories), Jay Mesick (Boeing), Rick Reuter (Boeing), Mike Roemer ...

Abstract This paper investigates how the characteristics of university laboratories influence propensity Ph.D. students to entrepreneurship, and thus, contribute transfer academic knowledge society. As determinants we focus on lab scientific social capital as well business experience that acquire during their training period. The empirical exercise is based questionnaire survey data 5266 in Ita...

MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, Scotland, U.K. School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JJ, UK Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Center for Cancer Research, Scientific Application and International Cooperation, Inc. (SAIC)-Frederick, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. Cystic Fibrosis Laboratory, Medical Microbiology, Univers...