Received: 29/04/2013 Revised: 17/09/2013 Accepted: 23/09/2013 Abstract Accurate prediction of carcass evaluation in live animals may allow more efficient genetic improvement of meat quality. Effective value-based marketing programs require precise techniques for assessing composition, palatability and other factors associated with consumer acceptance of meat products. The ultimate test for a ca...

There is a growing need for developing high-throughput tools for crop phenotyping that would increase the rate of genetic improvement. In most cases, the indicators used for this purpose are related with canopy structure (often acquired with RGB cameras and multispectral sensors allowing the calculation of NDVI), but using approaches related with the crop physiology are rare. High-resolution hy...

This paper presents an overview of the history and the foreseeable developments of animal breeding. After the transition from population genetics to modern quantitative genetics, realized in the late 1950s, major progress has occurred in the field of breeding value evaluation and, more recently, with the advent of genomics and its potential contribution to genetic improvement. Various challenge...

BACKGROUND The different scoring methods used by eight European External Quality Assessment Schemes (EQASs) for occupational and environmental laboratory medicine were compared to develop suitable quality specifications as a step toward harmonization. METHODS Real results for blood lead and serum aluminum assays, reported by participants in Italian and United Kingdom EQASs, were evaluated acc...

Traditional methods of genetic improvement have yielded long-term, significant improvement in traits relating to production efficiency and overall carcass quality; traits like growth rate, feed conversion, leanness and loin muscle area. These methods require widespread data collection and analysis for continued success. Traits associated with end product or consumer product quality have not rec...

We have developed a simple and sensitive chemiluminescence-linked immunoassay (CLIA) for determining mumps virus antibodies. Luminol molecules were used as markers, and polystyrene balls were used as antigen carriers. The CLIA was compared with an enzyme-linked fluorescence assay and a hemagglutination inhibition test on a total of 40 serum specimens obtained from 29 donors with natural infecti...

BACKGROUND The extent to which participants act to clinically verify research results is largely unknown. This study examined whether participants who received Lynch syndrome (LS)-related findings pursued researchers' recommendation to clinically verify results with testing performed by a CLIA-certified laboratory. METHODS The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center site of the multinational C...

Coppice can provide a cheap alternative to replanting in the second rotation in Eucalyptus globulus Labill. plantations. However, replanting with genetically improved stock may provide a more profitable alternative. A discounted cash flow model was used to compare the profitablity of coppice and seedling crops in second rotation E. globulus pulpwood plantations, using incremental net present va...

An experiment was conducted using a randomized complete block design to estimate genetic variability of ten rice genotypes. Analysis of variance for yield and yield contributing traits showed significant (p<0.01) variation among the genotypes. Results of genetic analyses showed a higher phenotypic coefficient of variation compared to their corresponding genotypic coefficient of variation for al...

The Medical Devices Amendment was published in 1976, when the Food & Drug Administration regulations were amended to include devices, basically to protect the public. I’m also going to talk about CLIA 1988 (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act), which was passed by Congress in 1988 and regulates laboratory operation. It really has not yet been implemented, although it took effect on January 1st ...