spending costs in construction of road pavements has turned this subject into one of the significant points in transportation infrastructure of countries. concrete slabs consider as a paving method with ability of reducing the rehabilitation needs. therefore, to manage costs and optimize the thickness of concrete pavements, recognizing the amount of determinative factors’ influence will be requ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of geography on quality control (QC) testing in the point of care testing (PoCT) in general practice trial. DESIGN AND METHODS Within-practice imprecision for QC testing for HbA1c, urine albumin:creatinine ratio, lipids and international normalised ratio was calculated for each geographic region. RESULTS There was no significant difference between the ...

Middle and southern Iraq suffers from polluted soils due to crude oil, spilled on land, leakage from transmitting pipe networks, or petroleum products from refineries. Many researchers have studied pollution impacts on the soil in details, but there is a clear lack of investigation on the influence of crude oil on soil erodibility. Recent researches have investigated the influence of pollution ...

This paper analyses the influence of including agents of different degrees of intelligence in a multiagent system. The goal is to better understand how we can develop intelligence tests that can evaluate social intelligence. We analyse several reinforcement algorithms in several contexts of cooperation and competition. Our experimental setting is inspired by the recently developed Darwin-Wallac...

Middle and southern Iraq suffers from polluted soils due to crude oil, spilled on land, leakage from transmitting pipe networks, or petroleum products from refineries. Many researchers have studied pollution impacts on the soil in details, but there is a clear lack of investigation on the influence of crude oil on soil erodibility. Recent researches have investigated the influence of pollution ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of needle gauge in Mantoux skin testing for tuberculosis. DESIGN Randomized selection of either a 27- or 30-gauge needle for Mantoux skin test placement; observer-blinded. SETTING Annual hospital employee screening. PARTICIPANTS Six hundred twenty-five employees working in clinical and laboratory research environments. RESULTS Blinded observers...

Female Swiss-Webster mice were treated daily for 10 days with cocaine (15 mg/kg i.p.) followed by 10 days with saline or ethanol (1.6 g/kg i.p.) or the reverse; following each injection in the experimental conditions locomotion was quantified in photocell cages. In animals given cocaine first, cocaine-induced locomotion was initially high and did not increase further with successive injections....

Spending costs in construction of road pavements has turned this subject into one of the significant points in transportation infrastructure of countries. Concrete slabs consider as a paving method with ability of reducing the rehabilitation needs. Therefore, to manage costs and optimize the thickness of concrete pavements, recognizing the amount of determinative factors’ influence will be requ...

S. Rešković, I. Jandrlić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Metallurgy, Sisak, Croatia, F. Vodopivec Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia Using thermal imaging camera during tensile testing of low carbon and Nb microalloyed steel influence of testing rate on start of plastic deformation was investigated. The results showed that the onset of plastic flow is significantly differ...

BACKGROUND Preanalytical factors are the main source of variation in clinical chemistry testing and among the major determinants of preanalytical variability, sample hemolysis can exert a strong influence on result reliability. Hemolytic samples are a rather common and unfavorable occurrence in laboratory practice, as they are often considered unsuitable for routine testing due to biological an...