This report summarizes a one year evaluation of Abbott's ABA 100, with respect to mechanical parts (syringe plates, precision and linearity of photometry, band width of several filters, multicuvet precision, temperature control) and the reliability of several methods (endpoint procedures: determination of the glucose concentration with hexokinase- and the glucose dehydrogenase method, and of th...

channel quality indicator and hybrid automatic repeat –request acknowledgement are important feedback information in system of 3GPP LTE, adopted joint or separate coding when transmitted via Physical uplink control channel. When uplink control information adopted type of joint coding, performance of channel estimation will decline and the number of reference signal will decrease because the ACK...

Contrast sensitivity has been identified as a significant index of visual function, and as an indicator of visual disorders. The Arden test of contrast sensitivity has been recognized as a simple and easily administered technique for measurement of this process. However, the customary method of administration of this test involves manual manipulation and considerable individual subjectivity. Th...

INTRODUCTION Measuring the effect of safety and health on production is a difficult value to gauge. METHOD This article introduces the Potential, which is an instrument for economic analysis that incorporates different changes in conditions. RESULTS While there are a number of problems associated with methods to determine these calculations, this method is a good indicator of the effects of...

Abstract Objective The controversial General Factor of Personality (GFP) has been proposed as an indicator social effectiveness and a slower life history strategy. An alternative hypothesis holds that only meta-trait alpha , comprising agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, is slow indicator. This study tested whether the GFP and/or emerges from both self- stranger-ratings, eith...

Aggregative data infrastructures (ADIs) are information systems where organizations can find the tools to integrate their data sources to form uniform and richer information spaces of object metadata descriptions. Novel sustainable approaches for the realization of ADIs are based on the adoption of ADI enabling technologies which support the realization, maintenance and upgrade of ADIs and prom...

OBJECTIVES To develop a set of scientifically sound and managerially useful system-level cancer care performance indicators for public reporting in Ontario, Canada. IMPLEMENTATION Using a modified Delphi panel method, comprising a systematic literature review and multiple rounds of structured feedback from 34 experts, the Cancer Quality Council of Ontario developed a set of quality indicators...