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Many automated blood culture reading systems monitor bacterial growth 24 hours a day but it is unclear if reacting to prompts indicating bacterial growth outside normal laboratory hours is of clinical benefit. An analysis of 50 blood cultures from 43 patients which had organisms seen on Gram films and had triggered positive out-of-hours showed that examination of the Gram film altered managemen...

Feedback parameter (the C factor) is an important parameter for a semiconductor laser operating in the regime of external optical feedback. Self-mixing interferometry (SMI) has been proposed for the measurement of the parameter, based on the time-domain analysis of the output power waveforms (called SMI signals) in presence of feedback. However, the existing approaches only work for a limited r...

OBJECTIVES Reasons for predonation deferral of young potential donors and prospects of recruiting and retaining young people (age 18-29) as voluntary blood donors were studied. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Three different sources of data were analysed: (i) the subsequent donation history of 2057 donors who started their donation career at the Blood Bank of Oslo (BBO) in 1999, age and gender of al...

Abstract G&K provide a new and interesting perspective on consciousness, by arguing that consciousness is a product of social perception. Based on the overlap between the neural mechanisms underlying spatial awareness of other people and oneself, out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and social perception the authors argue that consciousness is based on the brain signals that represent other people a...

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PURPOSE To examine the effects of suit wear during an intensive therapy program on motor function among children with cerebral palsy. METHOD Twenty children were randomized to an experimental (TheraSuit) or a control (control suit) group and participated in an intensive therapy program. The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) and Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM)-66 were adm...