OBJECTIVES Use of a local calibrator has been recommended for standardization of the international normalized ratio (INR) and international sensitivity index (ISI). We investigated the performance of two commercial local calibrators for warfarin monitoring and determined the significance of liver-specific INR. METHODS ISI values were determined using the World Health Organization (WHO) method...

The Smart Surface project aims at designing an integrated micro-manipulator based on an array of micromodules connected with a 2D array topology network. Each micromodule comprises a sensor, an actuator and a processing unit. One of the aims of the processing unit is to differentiate the shape of the part that is put on top of the Smart Surface. From a set of shapes this differentiation is done...

An earlier version of this document was published as Hankin (2005). This paper introduces the BACCO package of R routines for carrying out Bayesian analysis of computer code output. The package requires three packages of related functionality: emulator and calibrator, and approximator, computerized implementations of the ideas of Oakley and O’Hagan (2002), Kennedy and O’Hagan (2001a), and Kenne...

Positions and maps of 1608 new compact sources were obtained in twelve sessions observed during 1994–2002 at the VLBA network at 8.4/2.3 GHz. These sources are recommended for use as calibrators for phase reference imaging and as geodetic sources for astrometric/geodetic VLBI applications.

This paper presents the fourth extension to the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) Calibrator Survey, containing 258 new sources not previously observed with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI). This survey, based on three 24 hour VLBA observing sessions, fills remaining areas on the sky above declination −40 • where the calibrator density is less than one source within a 4 • radius disk at a...