Sixty low birthweight infants (1000-2000 g) admitted to a neonatal care unit in Turkey were studied. Those not requiring intensive care were randomly assigned for treatment either in a cot on a heated, water filled mattress kept at 37 degrees C (n = 28) or in air heated incubators with a mean air temperature of 35 degrees C (n = 32). On admission 53 (88.3%) of the infants had body temperatures ...

Here we describe the design and fabrication of an inexpensive cell culture incubator for the stage of an inverted light microscope for use in live cell imaging. This device maintains the temperature of the cell culture at 37 degrees C with great stability and, after reaching equilibrium, provides focal stability of an image for 20-25 min with oil-immersion lenses. We describe two versions of th...

By understanding organizations in depth, it is possible to perceive some interactions of with other and their environment. This research aims understand the dimensions that explain relationship network existing between a technology-based incubator university located region Itajaí valley. Methodologically this study characterized as descriptive relation its objective, for procedures can be consi...

The first aim of this study is to identify the external and internal factors that have shaped the performance of Technology-Based Start-up Firms (TBSF) in the US. The second goal is to compare this study with a previous study conducted in Brazil, to identify incubator best practices that may increase the performance of incubated firms. The US study focuses on graduated firms from the Indiana Un...

Millennium development goal target on infant mortality (MDG4) by 2015 would not be realised in some low-resource countries. This was in part due to unsustainable high-tech ideas that have been poorly executed. Prudent but high impact techniques could have been synthesised in these countries. A collaborative outreach was initiated to devise frugal measures that could reduce neonatal deaths in Ni...

This paper presents a novel microfluidic chip that exploits magnetic manipulation for integrated capture and separation of microparticles in continuous flow. The chip integrates an active-mixing enhanced incubator and a magnetic fractionation-based separator. In the incubator, surface-functionalized magnetic beads are used to capture target particles by specific binding, which is promoted by ac...

I had the privilege of becoming the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, one of the lead Institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the National Centers for Biomedical Computing program, at the launch of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. This gave me a unique perspective from which to observe this program. The perspectives described herein are my ow...

Background An increasingly 24/7 connected and urbanised world has created a silent pandemic of noise-induced hearing loss. Ensuring survival to children born (extremely) preterm is crucial. The incubator closed medical device, modifying the internal climate, thus providing an environment for child, as safe, warm, comfortable possible. While sound outside managed decreased over years, managing n...

Inspired by the potential of Information and Communication Technologies, henceforth ICTs, for socioeconomic development, and supported by a university based technology and business incubator, Rural Production Company, henceforth RPC, was set up in 2007 employing an ICT-mediated distributed production model. This paper reveals how RPC, initially an exploratory project whose key innovation was it...

Vertical Microbeams (VMB) are used to irradiate individual cells with low MeV energy ions. The irradiation of cells using VMBs requires cells to be removed from an incubator; this can cause physiological changes to cells because of the lower CO2 concentration, temperature and relative humidity outside of the incubator. Consequently, for experiments where cells require irradiation and observatio...