BACKGROUND Neonatal hypoglycemia is the most common carbohydrate metabolic disturbance seen in case of neonates and especially in preterm neonates. Accurate and rapid determination of hypoglycemia and its prompt treatment is of utmost importance to decrease morbidity and mortality of neonates. AIMS To estimate blood glucose in neonates and test the efficacy of HemoCue Glucose 201+ analyser an...

This paper investigates the possibilities that cross-linguistic similarities and dissimilarities between related languages offer in terms of bootstrapping a morphological analyser. In this case an existing Zulu morphological analyser prototype (ZulMorph) serves as basis for a Xhosa analyser. The investigation is structured around the morphotactics and the morphophonological alternations of the ...

This work describes the design of a phosphate analyser that utilises a microfluidic lab-on-a-chip. The analyser contains all the required chemical storage, pumping and electronic components to carry out a complete phosphate assay. The system is self-calibrating and self-cleaning, thus capable of long-term operation. This was proven by a bench top calibration of the analyser using standard solut...

On-line process chemical analysers A process analysis system (EPAS), from Eppendorf, for the chemical processing industry combines high-speed analysis with performance and reliability. Simplicity of analyser design guarantees long-term reliability and ease of service. Diagnostic software monitors and verifies analytical process data and analyser performance. An extensive process applications li...

The purpose of the investigation was to derive the optimal configuration of the spectrum analyser when used for the exposure assessment around base stations, together with the associated uncertainty and the underlying rationale for the chosen settings. A base-band simulation model for both the spectrum analyser and the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) communication signals has ...

The Kodak Ektachem DT60/E analyser is a desk-top analyser which uses thin-film ’dry’ chemistry technology to perform colorimetric and potentiometric analyses. The analyser is simple to operate and the slides are claimed to be stablefor up to oneyear if stored at 4 C. Calibration is said to be required only once every three months. Results presented in this paper substantiate these claims and sh...

In this article we present the way we have built a syllable-based TTS system for Romanian. The system contains: a text analyser capable to separate syllables from input text and detect accentuation, a vocal database with recorded syllables, a unit matching module and a synthesizer. The analyser was built using a LEX generator by mean of two sets of phonetic rules. Vocal database was generated t...

to resolve handling problem of nanoparticles, due to their small size, a new methodology of electro-spraying and freeze-drying was developed for colloidal nanoparticles of silica and titania to transform them to solid macro-scale nanoparticle assemblies.  the assemblies were then redispersed in an aqueous system to investigate the effect of formulation of original solutions and the process para...