When asked to combine two pieces of evidence, one diagnostic and one non-diagnostic, people show a dilution effect: the addition of non-diagnostic evidence dilutes the overall strength of the evidence. This non-normative effect has been found in a variety of tasks and has been taken as evidence that people inappropriately combine information. We investigated the dilution effect using simple per...

BACKGROUND The authors previously validated in an animal model a new indicator dilution technique for measuring cardiac output and circulating blood volume by recording transcutaneously the fluorescence of circulating indocyanine green with an optical probe placed on the skin surface. The current study compared fluorescence dilution recordings recorded from several locations on the human face i...

introduction: nowadays,  considerable developments  in  the field  of  radiotherapy have  been  achieved.  they  include  the  advances  made  in  the  equipments  and  treatment  planning  techniques  which  require  highly complex calculations. such achievements have made it possible to treat cancer patients not only  with  higher  radiation  dose  but  also  with  higher  precision  and  con...

This study aims to evaluate, in vitro, antibacterial activity of four novel sulfonamide derivatives (1a-d) against Staphylococcus aureus: reference strain ATCC 25923 and 40 clinical isolates. Inhibition zones were performed with the disk diffusion method. The MIC values were determined by the dilution broth method. A 48 hours MIC-Kinetic curve was performed for the tested compounds. All compoun...

A reliable and robust method for measuring the expression of alternatively spliced transcripts is an important step in investigating the significance of each variant. So far, accurate quantification of splice variants has been laborious and difficult due to the intrinsic limitations of conventional methods. The many advantages of real-time PCR have made this technique attractive to study its ap...

The method has been developed and validated for the determination of hydroquinone in liposomal formulation. The samples were dissolved in methanol and evaluated in 293 nm. The validation parameters such as linearity, accuracy, precision, specificity, limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ) were determined. The calibration curve was linear in 1-50 µg /mL range of hydroquinone an...