Administration of the various anesthetic agents including barbiturates results in a dose-related reduction in CMRO2 and cerebral blood flow. The maximum reduction occurs with the dose that results in electrocerebral silence. At this point, energy utilization associated with EEG activity has been reduced to zero, but energy utilization for cellular homeostasis persists unchanged. Additional barb...

The Diaslide urine culture device consists of a hinged case containing two opposing agar media separated by a sampler with a handle at one end and two bent sampler tips at the opposite end. The tips of the sampler are first dipped into the urine. The sampler is then pulled out through the casing, simultaneously inoculating both agar surfaces with a streaking dilution. As a result, individual co...

The transverse emittances in the SLAC Linear Collider can be severely diluted by collective wakefield effects and dispersion. For the 1997/98 SLC/SLD run important changes were implemented in the way the emittance is optimized. Early in the linac, where the energy spread is large due to BNS damping, the emittance growth is dominated by dispersion. In this regime emittance tuning bumps may intro...