BACKGROUND Total laboratory automation (TLA) has been shown to increase laboratory efficiency and quality. However, modular automation is smaller, requires less initial capital, and requires less planning than TLA. We engineered and performed clinical trials on a modular robotic preanalytical workcell for coagulation analysis. METHODS Timing studies were used to quantify the efficiency of the...

Background and objectives: Halo interference around antibiogram disc is one of the problems seen in Agar media. This study aimed at applying graded plate method to reduce this problem. Material and Methods: Forty-eight millimeter plates, before putting disc, were graded and the location of discs was determined. Instead of full disc, we used half-disc and then compared the haloe interference, ba...

In the current paper, specimen notch geometries during plane strain tensile test for cold-rolled steel DC01 is studied and optimized using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) desirability approach. The angle (X°), width (d), length (c) were main geometry parameters considered in this study. effects of these on state expressed by self-defined metrics, namely Plane Strain State Index (PSSI) Homoge...