The workload of thc clinical chemistry laboratory doubles every 4 or 5 years. This increase occurs in teaching and non-teaching hospital laboratories in this country and in many other countries abroad. Such increases have forced new approaches in laboratory techniques and laboratory organization. In the Department of Biochemistry at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, work study of the sy...

Different disciplines need specialized spaces to ensure the smooth conduct of research, and laboratory plays an important role as physical carrier knowledge production today. Reviewing history, it is found that image organization internal space have undergone great changes, which reflects people’s cognition scientific practice in different periods. This study uses syntax tools analyze relations...

The authors’ scientific approach highlights the method to allocate resources for investments to modernize two laboratories within a school, using linear programming. The study aims to achieve maximum profit by upgrading the two laboratories. We made recommendations with respect to the optimum solution. However, using optimization conception is only possible if the conditions for achieving the r...

Detecting and quantifying pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables is a crucial public health function for analytical laboratories throughout the world. Professor Amadeo Fernàndez-Alba, a full professor in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Almeria, Spain, has headed the European Reference Laboratory for Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables (EURL-FV) since 2006. Professor Fernà...

Many people still think of atomic energy as a matter of scientists with scientific assistants and laboratories with laboratory-type equipment. The factories of the Industrial Group of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority are controlled and directed by engineers and industrial chemists as well as by physicists, most of whom must be as skilled in management as they are in the technical complexities o...

This work describes the experience of the authors regarding the design, development, analysis, and exploitation of web-based technologies for creating an online experimentation framework with distance education purposes. The framework we propose is specially designed for scientific and technical courses that require a quite important presence of experimentation. It supports the development of v...

Virtual laboratories can be characterized by their longlasting, large-scale computations, where a collection of heterogeneous tools is integrated into data processing pipelines. Such virtual experiments are typically modeled as scientific workflows in order to guarantee their reproduceability. In this chapter we present JOpera, one of the first autonomic infrastructures for managing virtual lab...

Forensic urine drug-testing laboratories operate in a prescribed scientific and administrative manner to ensure accurate test results. All specimens positive by an initial immunoassay test must be confirmed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). To provide adequate control and verification of these analytical processes, laboratories must implement appropriate policies and procedures t...

A vast number of journals are published monthly but a large percentage is only available by subscription and many libraries in developing nations cannot afford the institutional fees. The costs of publishing an article can be prohibitive for struggling laboratories that have to decide whether to invest in reagents or paper. Budget constraints also prevent researchers from attending large Europe...

Many animals are bred specifically for use in laboratories; the genetic variation between individuals is minimised, and housing and husbandry is often standardised. The rationale is to decrease the variation of the scientific findings, and allow a reduction in number of animals used, although these relationships are questioned. Non-human primates used in laboratories present a different case; t...