One of the traditional methods of cell viability analysis is the use of trypan blue dye exclusion staining. This technique has been the standard methodology used in academic research laboratories and industrial biotechnology plants. Cells were routinely counted manually with a hemocytometer. In recent years, modern automated instrumentation has been introduced to supplement this traditional tec...

The Business School at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) employs approximately 150 academic staff in a state-of-the-art environment located in Hatfield Business Park. It offers 17 undergraduate degree programmes, 21 postgraduate programmes and there are about 80 research students, mostly working at doctoral level. Business School staff are active in research in numerous areas, including comp...

In this paper, we present a cluster computing environment established at a minority serving institution that aims to provide services for research and education in an undergraduate student body. We will address the cost efficiency of the cluster computing environment; student participation in the configuration of the lab; and research activities performed on the cluster that involves faculty/st...

Coupled finite-infinite element computations are very efficient for modeling large scale acoustics problems. Parallel algorithms, like sub-structuring and domain decomposition methods, have shown to be very efficient for solving huge linear systems arising from acoustics. In this paper, a coupled finite-infinite element method is described, formulated and analyzed for parallel computations purp...

Sec-mail is a group of site administrators in the GARR (Gruppo Armonizzazione Reti della Ricerca – Research Networks Harmonisation Group) network dedicated to the security of E-mail services. GARR is the National Research and Academic Network of Italy. The main points covered are in: methodologies to improve the efficiency of spam detection (mainly tuning of SpamAssassin), definition of best pr...

The Business School at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) employs approximately 150 academic staff in a state-of-the-art environment located in Hatfield Business Park. It offers 17 undergraduate degree programmes, 21 postgraduate programmes and there are about 80 research students, mostly working at doctoral level. Business School staff are active in research in numerous areas, including comp...

Background and Objectives: Patients express their long wait time as an ineffective patient flow pattern and subsequently patient dissatisfaction. We embarked on this study to ensure an efficient clinic. We used findings from a pilot time-flow study at an academic family practice to identify operational problems that led to excessive patients’ wait time and repeated the study after the practice ...

universities of medical science and health services (umshss) are among the main organizations in iran's health-care section. improving their efficiency in financial resource management through creating an appropri-ate coordination between consumption and resources is strategically vital. investigating the financial performance as well as ranking the iranian umshss is the research objective.the ...

In this article the literature on the effects of school size is summarized to describe what is currently known about its relationship to economic efficiency, curricular diversity, academic achievement, and related variables. Two curvilinear relationships are identified: one for economic efficiency and one for educational outcomes. In both cases, increasing size initially brings positive effects...

TABLE 1. Experimental and theoretical results for noise reduction in photon-number or intensity-1/f noise of spectrally filtered solitons. The pulse widths are FWHM values, C is the chirp parameter as defined in G.P. Agrawal: ”Nonlinear Fiber Optics” (Academic Press 1995). The photon-number noise reduction values in parentheses are: * extrapolated for 100 % detection efficiency (experiment) ** ...