Greenberg et al., in their perspective on the current state and fate of comparative psychology, present convincing data that the field is viable and that comparative psychologists are making important contributions to the research literature. The central feature of the field is its emphasis upon evolution. This is also its weakness since advances in genetic techniques permit researchers to crea...

Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from a bacteremic patient. This strain, together with other isolates of V. vulnificus, was compared with V. alginolyticus, V. fluvialis, and V. parahaemolyticus with regard to growth characteristics on enteric agar media (enabling isolation and identification) and production of exoenzymes which could correlate with invasive potential. V. vulnificus grew well on Ma...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES In order to ensure food safety, food businesses in Europe must comply with national as well as Europe-wide legal hygienic requirements and regulations. For years, the use of plastic as a cutting surface was recommended over wood, as wood was shown to have negative reviews. The main arguments against wood are that it is porous, gets cut easily, and that difficult-to-e...

We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions: First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email), associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee and Bozeman (2004) and Walsh and Mahoney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these...

ORK-LOAD CONTROL FACTORS in clinical laboratories are not available in the literature. Business engineering and manpower-study methods are not readily applicable to laboratory work in which varied human elements exist. The remarkable variety of methods, choice of technics, personal viewpoints, lack of contacts, and few chances for direct comparison with the work of others in the field also make...

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...