Eliot Stellar and William D. McElroy ..................281 Effect of Heparin and Dicoumarol on Sludge Formation: Harold Laufman, Wayne B. Martin, and Carlos Tanturi ....... ............................. 283 An Experiment on Human Vitamin B8 Deprivation: W. W. Hawkins and James Barsky 284 The Utilization of Carbon Dioxide by the Mature Rat in the Formation of Fatty Acids: Jack Schubert and Walla...

Viral examination is routinely carried out in most routine diagnostic microbiology laboratories. Most often, this comprises the detection of viral antigens and antibodies, and less commonly the isolation of viruses and the detection of viral nucleic acids. However, there are no standards or guidelines available for processing these specimens in routine diagnostic laboratories or for referral to...

The future of the CDS Registrants as CDS users continue to grow and number over 200 at present. The CDS method is now being used by laboratories in South East Asia, India and South Africa. It is unfortunate that a number of Australian public laboratories have changed from using the CDSmethod to othermethods as a result of executive decisions apparently based on reasons other than scientific mer...

Clinical databases have been developed in recent years especially during the course of all medical concerns including laboratory results. The information produced by the diagnostic laboratories have great impact on health care system with various secondary uses. These uses are sometimes as publishing new extracted information of laboratory reports which have been widely applied in the scientifi...

background: the quantity and quality of manpower, especially in health systems, are major factors affecting speed of service delivery, cost, and accuracy, or, in other words, the quality of service. objective: this study purposed to investigate the manpower required in various units of the laboratory at shiraz faghihi hospital. methods: this is a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical resea...

We describe four major approaches to the study of science—historical accounts of scientific discoveries, psychological experiments with nonscientists working on tasks related to scientific discoveries, direct observation of ongoing scientific laboratories, and computational modeling of scientific discovery processes— by viewing them through the lens of the theory of human problem solving. We co...

Numerous primary vacuum standards namely Mercury Manometer Standard, Volume Expansion Standard and Orifice Flow Standard of different ranges and designs have been developed by various international vacuum metrology laboratories, for the calibration of vacuum gauges. This paper briefly describes a variety of scientific techniques that had either been used or are employed in different primary vac...

Since 1983, the Sentinel Network of Laboratories, coordinated by the Scientific Institute of Public Health (WIV-ISP), collects data on 40 infectious diseases. In 2009, 102 laboratories (representing 59% of all Belgian laboratories of microbiology) participated on a voluntary basis in the surveillance system. Private or hospital laboratories were evenly distributed throughout 33 of the 43 admini...