Reference intervals: current status, recent developments and future considerations

Hypolipidaemic agents: current status and recent developments.

Sigviewer – Current Status and Recent Developments

SigViewer is an open source cross-platform biosignal viewer designed to visualize and annotate biomedical data streams. It supports a wide variety of file formats, including BDF, EDF, GDF, CNT, BrainVision, and BCI2000. Recently, support for loading multistream XDF data has been added. Besides visualizing raw data, SigViewer supports loading, displaying, creating, and editing events that can be...

Nurse prescribing: current status and future developments.

The recent government proposal to add another 60 drugs to the nurse prescribers' formulary is yet another change in the fast developing area of nurse prescribing. Prescribing offers nurses the chance to improve the care that they deliver to their patients. It also provides opportunities for collaborative work in driving the national directives forward, resulting in new roles for nurses.

Porous Metals and Metallic Foams: Current Status and Recent Developments

Cellular metals and metallic foams are metals with pores deliberately integrated in their structure. The terms cellular metals or porous metals are general expressions referring to metals having large volume of porosities, while the terms foamed metal or metallic foams applies to porous metals produced with processes where foaming take place. Besides, the term metal sponge refers to highly poro...

Cryopreservation of bovine oocytes: current status and recent developments.

The cryopreservation of oocytes of most animal species remains a challenge due to their complex structure. Equilibrium freezing is not satisfactory because oocytes seem to be damaged by exposure for several minutes to temperatures near 0 degrees C. Therefore, cryopreservation of oocytes by vitrification--especially the use of very high cooling rates of oocytes suspended in extremely small volum...