The accreditation of clinical laboratories and blood banks based on ISO 15189 is now being consolidated in Mexico, and is coordinated by the Mexican accreditation entity innovative strategies, A.C. (ema) and supported by the activities of the committee of clinical laboratories and blood banks. The active participation in working groups formed by the technical committee of clinical laboratories ...

Isoprostanes are stable products of arachidonic acid peroxidation and are regarded as the most reliable markers of oxidative stress in vivo. Here we describe the LC-MS/MS procedure enabling simultaneous determination of four regioisomers (8-iso prostaglandin F2α, 8-iso-15(R)-prostaglandin F2α, 11β-prostaglandin F2α, 15(R)-prostaglandin F2α) in plasma samples collected from mice. The four plasma...

Since 2003 when the international norm for implementation of quality management in medical laboratories (EN ISO 15189, Medical laboratories--Particular requirements for quality and competence) was established and accepted, accreditation has become practical, generally accepted method of quality management and confirmation of technical competence of medical laboratories in the whole world. This ...

How can we understand the solar cycle signal on the Earth’s surface? Kunihiko Kodera1, Rémi Thiéblemont2, Seiji Yukimoto3, Katja Matthes2,4 1Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601 Japan 2Research Division Ocean Circulation and Climate, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, 24105 Germany 5 3Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, 305...

Yuansen Xiong 1, Ai Yamakage 1,2,*, Shingo Kobayashi 1,2, Masatoshi Sato 3 and Yukio Tanaka 1 1 Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan; [email protected] (Y.X.); [email protected] (S.K.); [email protected] (Y.T.) 2 Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan 3 Yukawa Institute for Theoretical P...

As the creation of signed language resources is gaining speed worldwide, the need for standards in this field becomes more acute. This paper discusses the state of the field of signed language resources, their metadata descriptions, and annotations that are typically made. It then describes the role that ISOcat may play in this process and how it can stimulate standardisation without imposing s...