BACKGROUND With the incidence of malaria in Sri Lanka declining, intensive parasitological surveillance has been identified as a key strategy to achieve elimination by end 2014. Tropical and Environmental Diseases and Health Associates Private Limited (TEDHA) in collaboration with the Anti-Malaria Campaign established 43 malaria diagnostic laboratories (MDL) in four post-conflict districts of t...

INTRODUCTION Biosafety during lab work is an important concern in developing countries. Some critical issues concerning biosafety are lack of training, exceeding workload, working too fast, deciding not to follow safe practices, and skepticism about biohazards. This study aimed to determine biosafety perception and practices of laboratory technicians during routine work in clinical laboratories...

In a laboratory experiment, we investigate the impact of temporary buy-options on efficiency, revenues, and bidding behavior in online proxy-auctions when bidders have independent private valuations. We show that the introduction of a buy-option reduces efficiency and at the same time fails to enhance revenues. In particular, we observe that the former presence of a temporary buy-option lowers ...

We study the extent to which, in a laboratory …nancial market, noise trading can stem from subjects’ irrationality. We estimate a structural model of sequential trading by using experimental data. In the experiment, subjects receive private information on the value of an asset and trade it in sequence with a market maker. We …nd that, in the laboratory, the noise due to the irrational use of pr...

After the launch of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 2003, it became evident that inadequate laboratory systems and services would severely limit the scale-up of human immunodeficiency virus infection prevention, care, and treatment programs. Thus, the Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Becton, Dickinson and Company deve...

Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing outcome, some report their private information truthfully or at l...

a Demonstrator in the same school. The rapid advance in all branches of tropical medicine has rendered inevitable the continued production of such books. The great object of Dr. Daniels' book remains as before, viz., the application of simple laboratory methods to the practice of medicine, and it aims at being of special assistance to the lonely worker in his improvised private laboratory, it m...

OBJECTIVE The Committee for Mycobacterial Examinations has planned and implemented the third external quality assessment of drug susceptibility testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the hospital and private laboratories. METHOD The Committee delivered 20 M. tuberculosis strains, exactly pairs of 10 strains, which were evaluated and standardized for the drug resistance pattern in the WHO/ ...

Centre de Criblage pour Molécules Bioactives, Institut de Recherches en Technologies et Sciences pour le Vivant, CEA-Grenoble, F-38054 Grenoble, France Laboratory of Toxicology, Ghent University, Harelbekestraat 72, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium Malaria Research Group, Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Private Bag x20, Pretoria, South Africa, 0028 6 Laboratory of Functional Plant Biol...

This study examined (a) developmental stability and change in children's private speech during the preschool years, (b) across-task consistency in children's self-speech, and (c) across-setting relations between children's private speech in the laboratory and their behaviour at home and in the preschool classroom. A group of 32 normally developing three- and four-year-old children was observed ...