Artifact refers to an artificial structure or tissue alteration on a prepared microscopic slide—the result of an extraneous factor. It can result in alteration of normal morphologic and cytologic features that may occur as a result of the way the tissue has been handled, right from the time the biopsy, which is surgically obtained till the entire histopathological procedures of fixation, proces...

As part of the European-Commission--funded STREAMES project, a system is being developed with the objective of capturing knowledge from water managers and environmental-science experts, regarding nutrients-excess effects in streams and of combining this knowledge into a user-friendly tool to assist water managers in evaluating streams’ nutrient-retention capabilities. In this paper, we summariz...

201(5): 897-900. I g6 I .-Dogs under chloralose anesthesia show augmented reflex responses of systolic arterial pressure, mean arterial pressure, diastolic arterial pressure, and pulse rate to bilateral occlusion of the common carotid arteries over the responses of these same parameters before any a nesthesia. H yporeflexia, as indicated by these parameters, is observed when the anesthetic is c...

(57) A model generation module is described herein for using a machine learning technique to generate a model for use by a search engine. The model assists the search engine in gener ating alterations of search queries, so as to improve the rel evance and performance of the search queries. The model includes a plurality of features having Weights and levels of uncertainty associated thereWith, ...

Streptococcus pyogenes type 12, isolated from the pharynx of a patient with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis, was subcultured in Todd-Hewitt broth and incubated at 37°C for 24 hr. The organisms were removed by centrifugation and washed with Dulbecco’s solution, and serial dilutions were plated on blood-agar plates; 1 ml of suspension containing 3 x 104 organisms was used for treatment...