The clinical microbiology laboratory plays a critical role in the detection of Staphylococcus aureus with decreased susceptibility to vancomycin. Staff education and rapid laboratory response are of utmost importance. We report on our laboratory's experience and provide recommendations for the identification and confirmation of vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus.

The current state of knowledge on the biochemical abnormalities in the mucopolysaccharidoses is reviewed. Methods for the estimation and identification of glycoasminoglycans excreted in the mucopolysaccharidoses are discussed and a selection of simple and reliable methods of value in a small hospital laboratory have been given in detail in an appendix.

During last decade, Internet and related web technology development enabled the arising of e-learning services and made distant learning a reality. As traditional face to face classroom became virtual classroom through Internet, traditional laboratories found their image in Electronic Laboratories (ELABs). These ones enable learners to train themselves on remote real or virtual systems. They re...

Algeria has paid attention to the higher education and scientific research sector through five-year technological development programs (1998-2002, 2008-2012, 2014-2019). The study aims evaluate activities in Algerian universities within framework of programs, relationship by researchers laboratories with Webometrics ranking universities. It is eluted what are which have most impact on ranking. ...

1. D. B. Meadowcroft, Nature 226, 847 (1970). 2. Our preparation of LaCoO. was made by J. Remeika of the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill at the request of our collaborator B. Matthias of Bell Telephone Laboratories and the University of California, San Diego, to whom we had appealed when Meadowcraft's article appeared. 3. Supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Resear...

NTT Communication Science Laboratories conducts scientific research aimed at understanding human information-processing mechanisms and technological research aimed at realizing humanfriendly interfaces in computer environments. The ultimate goal of our work is to enrich communications among people as well as between people and computers. This special feature presents the leading edge of our res...

Biography Bernardo Kastrup has a Ph.D. in computer engineering with specializations in artificial intelligence and reconfigurable computing. He has worked as a scientist in some of the world’s foremost research laboratories, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the “Casimir Effect” of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). B...

This paper aims at presenting the results of a study whose objectives are a) to identify activities related academic literacies carried out in Brazilian university writing laboratories; b) present LILA as collaborative network lab. research was within qualitative paradigm, including bibliographic review, document analysis labs investigated and description future actions be developed by LILA. Th...

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