The purpose of the present study was to determine whether children experience a higher systemic exposure to isoflavonoids when consuming a body weight-adjusted dose of soya compared with adults. Forty study participants were recruited from a local Waldorf school, including twenty-one children and nineteen adults. Participants collected a baseline urine sample and ate immediately thereafter a bo...

BACKGROUND Urinalysis testing is frequently ordered in the emergency department (ED), but contamination of urine specimens limits the interpretation of results. The mid-stream, clean-catch (MSCC) procedure for urine specimen collection is recommended to decrease contamination rates, but without instructions this procedure has poor compliance. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of written...

Awidely perceived requirement for validation of all new specimen collection swabs by the laboratory appears to be the result of misinformation. Neither the College of American Pathologists (CAP) nor regulations through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) address specifically the issue of swab validation for general specimen collection (1–4). While both regulatory agencies requ...

The genus Bannapone was described in 2000 on the basis of a single dealate queen specimen. Since its original collection in Yunnan, China, no other specimen has been reported, making it one of the rarest ant genera in the world. Here we report the collection of two workers of Bannapone also from Yunnan province. The description of the worker caste is presented. Furthermore, we found significant...

BACKGROUND The practice of making datasets publicly available for use by the wider scientific community has become firmly integrated in genomic science. One significant gap in literature around data sharing concerns how it impacts on scientists' ability to preserve values and ethical standards that form an essential component of scientific collaborations. We conducted a qualitative sociological...

Spontaneous language samples elicited during freeplay and interview contexts were compared for 10 children who were specifically language impaired (SLI). Clinician-child videotaped interactions were analyzed for both structural and conversational behaviors. The results indicated that the interview was a reliable and valid assessment context, eliciting the same profile of behaviors as the freepl...

INTRODUCTION Children have an increased risk of voluntary dehydration especially during physical activity which may increase the risk of non-compensating water losses. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the hydration status and its relation to food intake in a children group of soccer players. METHOD A sample of 36 boys aged 9-10 years was included in this study; 30 completed a ...

Gas content of coals is typically measured using the Direct Method Analysis (DMA) on freshly cut cores. The problem with the DMA technique is that overall results can be greatly influenced by artefacts of the test apparatus and procedures used by core sample type, sample collection methodology, and analysis conditions. Even if all these factors are precisely controlled, the accuracy of in situ ...

A finger-stick swab method of collecting blood specimens was shown to compare favorably with the conventional venipuncture method in serological determinations of antibody to hepatitis A virus by radioimmunoassay.

UNLABELLED The collection of microbiological samples represents an important aspect of care both for doctors as well as nurses. It is important to recognise and identify some key points, to avoid performing 'unnecessary' or 'incorrect' sampling, which may give useless or even misleading results, these are: the moment at which the sample is collected, the collection method and timing (if indicat...