In 1974 the DHSS issued circular HSC(lS)16, Organisation of Scientific and Technical Services, which provided an operational framework for the reorganised NHS and took into account some of the recommendations of the Zuckerman Report.1 Since 1974 there has been growing concern about the inadequacy of HSC(lS)16, and a few laboratories have experienced difficulties in trying to operate an effectiv...

10 the Johns Hopkins turbulence Databases: an Open Simulation laboratory for turbulence research Kalin Kanov, randal burns, Cristian lalescu, and Gregory eyink The Johns Hopkins Turbulence Databases are an open simulation laboratory for the study of turbulence. They provide an immersive environment in which world-class numerical simulation datasets are available “at your fingertips.” Such an en...

The change from a predominately fee-for-service payment environment to managed care has significantly reduced revenues for many clinical laboratories. Medicare is rapidly becoming the most favorable payor in areas with high managed-care penetration. This trend has not gone unnoticed by Congress, and congressional and regulatory initiatives are rapidly moving to reduce federal laboratory reimbur...

Practical experience is an important component of the educational process. However, the time and economical resources often required for the setting up and construction of scientific laboratories is outside the scope of many institutions. A solution to this problem could be found in the adaptation of the Virtual Reality technology, which could allow the creation of Virtual Laboratories, which w...

The paper deals with basic philosophy and structure of a remote controlled laboratory for experimentation in Electrical Engineering. The laboratory collects experiments from fields of Power Electronics, Electrical Machines, Electro-Mechanical and Motion Control Systems. The workbenches in the real laboratory are used over internet. Real experiments of the laboratory are distributed at various u...

The MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) is an interdepartmental laboratory whose mission is to foster research and education in semiconductor process and device technology and in integrated circuits and systems design. MTL provides microand nanofabrication and computer-aided design (CAD) infrastructure to the entire campus. MTL has 36 core faculty members who are engaged in diverse r...

With depressing regularity, the media continue to uncover cases of scientific fraud. For journalists and their editors, such stories are news of the same calibre as a political scandal and they receive the same treatment: scientists, who commit fraud to advance their own careers or their companies, are rich material for a human aspect story. In addition, fraudulent research in the life sciences...

We describe an assignment problem particular to the personnel scheduling of organisations such as laboratories. Here we have to assign tasks to employees. We focus on the situation where this assignment problem reduces to constructing maximal matchings in a set of interrelated bipartite graphs. We describe in detail how the continuity of tasks over the week is achieved to suit the wishes of the...