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Are You Uncertain About Uncertainty?

The role of sampling and measurement uncertainty in assessing production process capability is examined, using content uniformity testing as an example. An expanded components of variance model is proposed for consideration during risk assessment and mitigation studies, with emphasis that either empirical (“top-down”) or model-based (“bottom-up”) approaches to estimation of uncertainty can be e...

when you are asked about carpal tunnel syndrome

carpal tunnel syndrome is known as an industrial new epidemic. in many of jobs, the same motions of hand are repeated thousands of times a day.  each day the number of people with the syndrome is increasing. clerks, workers in food preparation and packaging, and secretaries of large supermarkets have a high risk for suffering from this syndrome. in fact, all people who flex and extend their wri...

Rerouting of Host Lipids by Bacteria: Are You CERTain You Need a Vesicle?

Fifteen years ago, in a series of elegant studies, Hackstadt and colleagues showed that the obligate intracellular bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis save on their lipid needs by incorporating sphingomyelins (SMs) made by their host [1–3]. Shortly after, Hatch and McClarty’s teams reported that several eukaryotic glycerophospholipids are also trafficked from the host to the bacteria, which replace ...

You Are What You Post: What the Content of Instagram Pictures Tells About Users' Personality

Instagram is a popular social networking application that allows users to express themselves through the uploaded content and the different filters they can apply. In this study we look at the relationship between the content of the uploaded Instagram pictures and the personality traits of users. To collect data, we conducted an online survey where we asked participants to fill in a personality...

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