BACKGROUND The Precision Xtra(®) meter is a promising low cost electrochemical point-of-care unit for measuring blood glucose concentration ([gluc]) in cattle blood. The meter uses an algorithm that assumes the intra-erythrocyte [gluc] equals the plasma [gluc] on a molal basis, and that the hematocrit is similar in humans and cattle. OBJECTIVES The primary objective was to determine the accur...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a glucose meter with surgical patients under general anesthesia in the operating room. METHODS Glucose measurements were performed intraoperatively on 368 paired capillary and arterial whole blood samples using a Nova StatStrip (Nova Biomedical, USA) glucose meter and compared with 368 reference arterial whole blood glucose measureme...

Cues from social partners trigger the activation of socially responsive neuromodulatory systems, priming brain regions including sensory systems to process these cues appropriately. The fidelity with which neuromodulators reflect the qualities of ongoing social interactions in sensory regions is unclear. We addressed this issue by using voltammetry to monitor serotonergic fluctuations in an aud...

Supported under the NSF Special Projects in Communication and Networking, Ohio State University researchers in both the wireless communications and networking areas are working toward achieving signiicant gains in wireless system performance by leveraging an existing and functioning wireless modem testbed. The narrow-band wireless modem testbed is expected to support both real-time (bus locatio...

We present a theoretical investigation of high-order harmonic generation in a chirped two-colour laser field, which is synthesized by an 800 nm fundamental chirped pulse and a 1200 nm subharmonic chirped pulse. With the introduction of a polarization angle, both the harmonic cutoff is significantly extended and the spectrum intensity is effectively enhanced compared with the orthogonally polari...

Bovine milk is a complex colloidal liquid exhibiting a multi-scaled structure. It is of particular importance, both commercially and scientifically, to investigate both its dynamic and structural properties. In the current study we have employed the broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) technique in the frequency range of 10(-1)-10(6)Hz and the temperature range of 176-230 K in order to exami...