QUESTIONS Is the novel in-vitro diagnostic device U-Test(®) reliable and secure for urine collection in diaper-wearing children and simultaneous evaluation of the urine collected for the presence of leucocytes and nitrite? METHODS The qualitative and functional performance of U-Test(®) was evaluated in a multicentre prospective clinical trial. The diagnostic performance of the novel in-vitro ...

Design, fabrication, and testing of multi-axis CMOS piezoresistive accelerometers is described. Vertical axis accelerometers have been fabricated in multiple processes using a production tested maskless bulk etch step. Horizontal axis accelerometers have also been fabricated and require an additional assembly step. Acceleration sensing in based on the piezoresistive behavior of the gate polysil...

Objective: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a chronic, disabling, and functional disorder of the gastrointestinal tract in the absence of identifiable structural disorder. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between sensory processing sensitivity and life style with perceived stress considering mediating role of duration of syndrome in patients with IBS using structural equ...

The performance characteristics of a new photometer that incorporated a reaction system consisting of a movable filtration tape have been studied for use with the firefly luciferase assay for adenosine 5'-triphosphate. Precision, linearity, and sensitivity are given for measuring a graded series of constant-light emitters, concentrations of adenosine 5'-triphosphate, and washed bacterial cells....

Sensitivity analysis studies the effect of a change in given parameter to response function system under investigation. In reactor physics, this usually translates into study how cross sections and fission spectrum modifications affect value multiplication factor, delayed neutron fraction or void coefficient for example. Generalized Perturbation Theory provides useful tool assessment adjoint we...

Design, fabrication, and testing of multi-axis CMOS piezoresistive accelerometers is described. Vertical axis accelerometers have been fabricated in multiple processes using a production tested maskless bulk etch step. Horizontal axis accelerometers have also been fabricated and require an additional assembly step. Acceleration sensing in based on the piezoresistive behavior of the gate polysil...

In this paper, we report the numerical calculations for a thermo-optical model and the temperature sensitivity of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor. The thermally-induced behaviors of a FBG sensor in the gas nitriding process were analyzed for temperatures ranging from 100–650 ◦C. The FBG consisted of properly chosen photosensitive fiber materials with an optimized thermo-optic coefficient. Th...

Design, fabrication, and testing of multi-axis CMOS piezoresistive accelerometers is described. Vertical axis accelerometers have been fabricated in multiple processes using a production tested maskless bulk etch step. Horizontal axis accelerometers have also been fabricated and require an additional assembly step. Acceleration sensing in based on the piezoresistive behavior of the gate polysil...