BACKGROUND Information is needed regarding analytical characteristics of cardiac troponin (cTn) assays used in preclinical studies. METHODS We measured cTnI and cTnT in serum from normal animals and animals with induced myocardial injury [Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar rats, beagle dogs, and rhesus (Rh) and cynomolgus (Cy) monkeys]. We evaluated the following assays: for cTnI, Abbott Architec...

Recently, researchers (E. Festa-Martino, B. R. Ott, & W. C. Heindel, 2004; A. Tales, J. L. Muir, A. Bayer, R. Jones, & R. J. Snowden, 2002; A. Tales, J. L. Muir, A. Bayer, & R. J. Snowden, 2002 have found significantly abnormal spatial orienting together with the abolishment of the alerting effect in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, these research groups differed in their interpretation of th...

The Gphoto project exists to provide free and open-source software support for USB and serial digital still cameras which use miscellaneous proprietary interface protocols and image data formats. The cameras supported range from very cheap to very expensive, but one thing that many of them need is a good and practical Bayer demosaicing algorithm. The algorithm should get good results with cheap...