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the european court lifted the italian ban on pre-implantation diagnostics (pgd). as such the court accepted pgd as a generally accepted means for medically assisted procreation, which may have consequences for other member states prohibiting pgd.

background iran has a widespread diagnostics and clinical support services (dcss) network that plays a crucial role in providing diagnostic and clinical support services to both inpatient and outpatient care. however, very little is known on the application of quality assurance (qa) policies in dcss units. this study explores the extent of application of eleven qa strategies in dcss units withi...

component-resolved  diagnosis (crd) using microarray technology has recently been introduced  with the  aim to  improve diagnosis of allergy. the  aim of this study was to compare performance of this allergen microarray to those of an established extract-based skin prick testing (spt). 45  patients  with  allergic rhinitis  were studied  (16 children  and  29  adults). spt  to dermatophagoides ...

In this paper, we propose a Two-dimensional locality preserving projection based on maximum scatter difference (2D-DLPP/MSD). 2D-LPP/MSD use additive principle to preserve the locality by maximizing the between-class scatter and within-class scatter instead of using multiplicative principle of 2D-DLPP. Theoretically, we also discuss the influence of balance factor α on performance and reveal th...

Research was initiated to physically characterize the mitochondrial genomes of several Meloidogyne spp. and host-races, to address questions regarding their systematics and dispersal, and to assess the possibility of developing molecular diagnostics for these nematodes. Techniques were developed for purification and rapid detection of mitochondrial DNA from root-knot nematodes. Mitochondrial DN...

Recent advances in the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer and the development of molecular diagnostics based on this knowledge have done much to progress the fields of oncology and pathology. Technological developments such as Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and multiplex assays have made feasible the widespread adoption of molecular diagnostics for clinical use. While these develo...

The measurement uncertainty budget should combine the uncertainty of higher order references, the uncertainty of commercial system calibration, the system imprecision and individual laboratory performance in terms of variability. Here we recommend that no more than one third of the total uncertainty budget, established by appropriate analytical performance specifications, is consumed by the unc...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we determined the assay performance criteria necessary to produce acceptable results for >or=98% of neonate bilirubin samples collected by capillary heel-stick. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS We determined serum free hemoglobin levels in 151 heel-stick serum samples to determine the hemolysis level. We then tested the effect of hemolysis on total bilirubin levels determined...

This paper presents a new approach to modeling speech spectra and pitch for text-independent speaker identification using Gaussian mixture models based on multi-space probability distribution (MSD-GMM). The MSD-GMM allows us to model continuous pitch values for voiced frames and discrete symbols representing unvoiced frames in a unified framework. Spectral and pitch features are jointly modeled...