I evaluated a commercial electrochemical method (Environmental Science Associates), based on potentiostatic coulometry, for determining iron and total iron-binding capacity (TIBC). The method requires 25 and 100 microL of serum, respectively, for these measurements. Serum iron concentrations so determined in 99 normal volunteers satisfactorily correlated with those determined by the Iron Panel ...

This study aims at developing an experimental method for characterizing the vibroacoustic behaviour of panels excited by random pressure fields. Although the method would be theoretically applicable to any stationary and homogeneous random process, diffuse acoustic field (DAF) and turbulent boundary layer (TBL) excitations are considered in this study. The interest of industrials towards these ...

The consensus workshop, organised on behalf of the Food Standards Agency, was convened to recommend the most appropriate and secure method for measuring vitamin D status in the UK. Workshop participants (the Expert Panel) were invited on the basis of expertise in current 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) assays, or expertise in vitamin D nutrition and metabolism or detailed knowledge and experience i...

This paper presents a new approach to computing 1=r singularities on curved panels. By using carefully chosen mapping techniques, a curved panel with curved edges is mapped to a at panel with straight edges. Analytical formulas for at panel integrals are then used to give approximate curved panel integration solution. For those curved panels with reasonably large curvatures and smooth edges, th...

this study investigates the causal linkages between military spending and economic growth in opec selected countries (i.e. algeria, angola, nigeria, venezuela, iran, kuwait, saudi arabia and ecuador) by focusing country-specific analysis for the period 1995–2012. for this, the panel causality testing approach, the method developed by emirmahmutoglu and kose (2011) based on the vector autoregres...

BACKGROUND Random sample surveys of the population are time consuming and expensive, particularly if international sampling is planned. METHOD The Healthcare Access Panel was developed as an alternative to face to face or telephone health survey interviews to estimate prevalence or even incidence rates of health-relevant variables in the population. It is the objective of this paper to demons...