Owing to the progressive use of cold-formed high strength steel (HSS) for transportation applications, a characterisation fatigue behaviour HSS has become focal point material scientists and design engineers. To mimic components, specimen was adopted from previous research that features multiple bent sections. The geometry obtained by consecutive bending operations at room temperature. When sub...

background and objective: due to contagiousness of pertussis, a rapid and sensitive method for diagnosis is required to initiate the treatment and interrupt its transmission. materials and methods: to detect b. pertussis strains, we used two real-time pcr targeting is 481 and bp283 sequences and compared factors influencing culture and real-time pcr results. results: totally, 779 specimens were...

background : lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer- related deaths and most of themâ  are normally diagnosed in late stages, so there is an urgent need to establish reliable tools for the identification at early stages of the disease. in this study, we use an eleven gene signature test to examine lung biopsy specimens for diagnostic, prognostic & therapeutic purposes. methods : bronc...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide multifaceted interventions for nurses and confirm changes in their knowledge, perception, actual practice on the adequate storage, conditions, transportation culture specimens. Methods: A one-group pretest-posttest experimental design conducted with 41 two general wards a tertiary acute care hospital Seoul. Multifaceted including education, feed...

BACKGROUND Blood collected in conventional EDTA tubes requires laboratory analysis within 48 hours to provide valid CD4 cell count results. This restricts access to HIV care for patients from rural areas in resource-constraint settings due to sample transportation problems. Stabilization Tubes with extended storage duration have been developed but not yet evaluated comprehensively. OBJECTIVE ...

O3-S2.06 Figure 1 T. vaginalis Prevalence by Nugent Score. Conclusions Though published research shows that the incidence of TV is highest in women with BV, our data along with those from a previous study in pregnant women clearly establish that TV prevalence is highest in women with intermediate NS. These data in conjunction with our pyrosequencing results suggest that following infection TV m...

The Superpave gyratory compactor (SGC) is used to compact asphalt specimens for mixture testing in the Superpave system. Five companies currently manufacture SGCs for use in the United States, offering a total of eight different models. Each model employs a unique method of setting, inducing, and maintaining the specified angle of gyration. Calibration systems are required for each device for t...

the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and distribution of chlamydia trachomatisgenotypes in shiraz, iran. two hundred twelve cervical swab samples were collected from women attendingshahid motahari polyclinic in shiraz, iran. the endocervical specimens were screened for c. trachomatis byplasmid pcr. genotyping was performed in c. trachomatis-positive samples by nested pcr ...

OBJECTIVE The assessment of the vaginal lactobacillary flora helps to direct further diagnostic microbiologic investigations in genital infectious disease and seems to represent a powerful tool in predicting infectious morbidity and preterm labor during pregnancy. In the absence of a "gold standard," we studied the variations in assessing lactobacillary morphotypes according to the method used....

Introduction This study compared beta-blockers reported by pilots with the medications found by postmortem toxicology analysis of specimens received from fatal aviation accidents between 1999 and 2015. Several studies have compared drugs using the standard approach: Compare the drug found by toxicology analysis with the drug reported by the pilot. This study uniquely examined first the pilot-re...