Level3 and Pass1 are online programs used in CLEO III data acquisition for the purposes of filtering and detector diagnostics respectively. Being online programs, both require extensive testing in the areas of stability, CPU efficiency, and memory usage. This project was designed to aid in the testing and development of both of these programs. In the case of Pass1, improvements were made in spe...

Community-Driven Development (CDD) boasts many islands of success, but few of them have scaled up to cover entire countries. This paper examines the possible obstacles and possible solutions. It considers the theoretical case for CDD, and case studies of success. Obstacles to scaling up include high economic/fiscal costs, adverse institutional barriers, problems associated with the co-productio...

The program of the Research Unit of the Fusion Association Euratom Riso National Laboratory covers work in fusion plasma physics and in fusion technology. The fusion plasma physics group has activities within (a) studies of nonlinear dynamical processes in magnetized plasmas, (b) development of laser diagnostics for fusion plasmas, and (c) development of pellet injectors for fusion experiments....

As part of its monitoring and surveillance program, the Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising, and Communications (DDMAC) of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed Bracco Diagnostics Inc.’s (Bracco) website at http://www.impactcin.com (IMPACT website) for its drug product, Isovue (iopamidol injection) (Isovue). The website contains false and unsubstantiated claims related to...

A new hepatitis C virus (HCV) core antigen (HCV Ag) assay was thought to have a good correlation with HCV RNA. The aim was to elucidate the usefulness of this HCV Ag assay in community screening. In a township where HCV is endemic, 405 residents aged 58 years or older responded to a follow-up community screening. All subjects were tested for anti-HCV (AxSYM, version 3.0; Abbott Diagnostics) and...

The concept of integrated data analysis in nuclear fusion requires the linkage of data and physical information. Summarizing the key steps for the analysis of transport in the core plasma, benefits of probabilistic modelling of single diagnostics are discussed. Concepts for full diagnostics models consisting of several diagnostics modules and linkage through mapping procedures are given in figu...

Objective: Poor communication between medical and surgical specialists negatively impacts patient care and represents a serious challenge for medical educators. The objective of this study was to measure the effect of a brief interspecialty education program on perceived communication between medical and surgical specialists at a US medical center. Methods: In 2011, an interspecialty education ...