BACKGROUND Preanalytic factors such as time and temperature can have significant effects on laboratory test results. For example, ammonium concentration will increase 31% in blood samples stored at room temperature for 30 min before centrifugation. To reduce preanalytic error, blood samples may be placed in precooled tubes and chilled on ice or in ice water baths; however, the effectiveness of ...

A pixel-based methodology was established for automatic identification of icebergs 6 in satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, which were acquired during different seasons 7 and for different sea ice conditions. This includes in particular smaller icebergs (longitudinal axis 8 between 100 m and 18.5 km). Investigations were carried out for two test regions located in the 9 Weddell Sea...

objective(s): inflammation is an immune response toward injuries. although inflammation is healing response, but in some condition it will lead to chronic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, atherosclerosis, alzheimer’s and various cancer. indonesian cassia (cinnamomum burmanni c. nees & t. ness) known to contain coumarin, is widely used for alternative medicine es...

Objective(s): Inflammation is an immune response toward injuries. Although inflammation is healing response, but in some condition it will lead to chronic disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s and various cancer. Indonesian cassia (Cinnamomum burmanni C. Nees & T. Ness) known to contain coumarin, is widely used for alternative medicine es...

Thermal energy storage (TES) system has been introduced as a practical facility for shifting load from peak hours to off-peak hours. Because of different energy consumption during day and night, peak and off peak period is created on load curve. Ice storage technology which is a kind of TES system, is implemented in different points of the world with the purpose of solving load shifting problem...

Cryogenic targets, thin plastic shells surrounding thick cryogenic deuterium layers, are used to achieve nuclear fusion. These targets are irradiated by lasers causing the targets to implode and create fusion reactions by forcing the deuterium inside to fuse together. The cryogenic targets are pressurized with deuterium gas, and then the targets are chilled to about 20K to freeze an ice layer o...

Reported are the results of a cross-sectional survey in Burkina Faso to identify reliable, practical strategies for the serological diagnosis of HIV-1 and/or HIV-2 infections, using less-expensive commercial test kits in various combinations, as an alternative to the conventional Western blot (WB) test, which costs US$ 60. Serum samples, collected from blood donors, patients with acquired immun...

When the ice-class propeller sails in an icy sea, it is affected by external factors such as water, ice, and cavitation, process of mutual interference extremely complicated. In order to study influence water cavitation on load during ice-propeller milling process, a test platform for ice–water action was constructed. The single blade were measured air (atmospheric pressure decompression condit...