When to use DoLS? A further complication

When to Use Aoi, When to Use Axi, and When to Use Both

With today’s technology embracing ever-smaller chip components, array packages with hidden solder joints, and numerous components on both sides of the printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), manual visual inspection is running out of steam to adequately address these challenges. AOI (automatic optical inspection) and/or AXI (automatic X-ray inspection) are starting to be used at a majority of to...

Deprivation of Liberty and DoLS

Michael Walter Dols (1942–1989)

On 1 December 1989 Professor Michael W. Dols died in the United States after a long and difficult illness. With his passing, medical history lost one ofits foremost Arabist representatives. A native of Baltimore, Michael Dols received his BA in History from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1964 and an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1967. Drawn to the study ofthe Middle East at a time ...

When is a further clinical trial justified?

High quality randomised trials provide unbiased estimates of the effects of health interventions, but the findings of a single trial are rarely conclusive. Usually data from several similar trials must be pooled together to draw firm conclusions about the effectiveness of an intervention. This article considers how to determine whether data from existing trials are conclusive and, if not, wheth...

A further complication of meconium stained liquor in the newborn.