A panel of risk assessment experts reviewed a site-specific reference dose (RfD) for methylmercury for fish-eating populations on January 12, 1998. At that meeting the panel raised a number of issues and concerns which it asked the authors (ICF Kaiser International) to address in a revised document. This same panel of reviewers discussed this revised document in a conference call on February 26...

Homography H Least-squares M b) a) c) Ball_1 Ball_2 Ball_3 Ball_4 b) H r g r g π 1 π 2 Fig. 1. Top left, panel (a), images of two planes are related by an homography. Right, panel (b), 4 images of a colored ball are shown. Ball 1 is the reference image where the illumination color is white and placed behind the camera. Ball 2 is the object illuminated with a blue light from above. Respectively,...

Three networks/projects involving 27 European countries were established to investigate the quality of second-line drug (SLD) susceptibility testing with conventional and molecular methods. 1. The "Baltic-Nordic TB-Laboratory Network" comprised 11 reference laboratories in the Baltic-Nordic States. They performed SLD testing in the first phase with a panel of 20 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strai...

IMPORTANCE Since publication of the report by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine in 1996, researchers have advanced the methods of cost-effectiveness analysis, and policy makers have experimented with its application. The need to deliver health care efficiently and the importance of using analytic techniques to understand the clinical and economic consequences of strategies ...

We recently introduced a homogeneous immunoassay based on time-resolved Förster resonance energy transfer (TR-FRET) elicited by fluorophore-labeled antigen and fluorophore-labeled protein L, bound by an immunoglobulin. As the first clinical application, we employ this approach (LFRET) in serodiagnosis of Puumala hantavirus (PUUV) infection. A reference panel containing serum from individuals wi...

One recently reported approach to flat panel autostereoscopic 3D displays under investigation at Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd. (SLE) uses a high precision patterned optical half wave retarder combined with a re-configurable output polariser to “develop” a parallax barrier structure attached to an LCD display panel. Such a barrier is invisible without the polariser and thus a 2D/3D configura...

Genotype imputation, used in genome-wide association studies to expand coverage of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), has performed poorly in African Americans compared to less admixed populations. Overall, imputation has typically relied on HapMap reference haplotype panels from Africans (YRI), European Americans (CEU), and Asians (CHB/JPT). The 1000 Genomes project offers a wider range o...

This paper studies the long-run convergence of per-capita GDP across European regions. Most of the empirical works in this area are based on either cross-sectional or a-spatial panel data xed-e ects estimates. Here, we propose the use of panel data econometrics models that incorporate an explicit consideration of spatial dependence e ects (Anselin, 1988; Elhorst, 2001; 2003). This allows us to ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Routine use of the script concordance test (SCT) is not common in Brazilian universities. This study aimed to analyze application of the SCT in the medical school of a Brazilian university. DESIGN AND SETTING Quantitative, analytical and descriptive study in the medical school of a Brazilian university. METHODS A total of 159/550 students participated. The test compris...

If you compare two identical images on two different monitors, they will likely appear different. Every display device is supposed to adhere to a particular set of standards regulating the color and intensity of the image it outputs. However, in practice, very few do. Color calibration is the practice of modifying the signal path such that the colors produced more closely match reference standa...