A major clinical use of laboratory tests is for classifying patients into diagnostic and treatment categories. Multiple factors influence the decision limits used for these decisions; however, the analytic performance of the assays seldom is explicitly considered in these decisions, even though both imprecision and bias may significantly alter the decisions. Of these two factors, changes in ana...

____________________________________________________________________ The calibration of accelerometers, angular rate sensors, and inertial measurement units (IMU) increases the accuracy of their measurements. For artillery rounds and most rockets, measurements are acquired while the body is spinning. By the comparison of the sensor output to known input, calibration is accomplished. Calibration...

We studied the possibility of the high brightness operation of the NewSUBARU electron storage ring without lattice modification. By turning-off the RF shaker that is used to enlarge the vertical size and the lifetime of stored electron beams, the brightness can be improved 2.7 times assuming that the stored current is the same. As the lifetime decreases, the top-up current is also reduced due t...

The Connectionism and Natural Language Processing Group has several main research directions that are apparent from the projects listed here. Our main approach is an outgrowth of preference semantics, where language understanding is semantic and knowledge based as opposed to syntax based. We have a strong interest in the connectionist approach to natural language processing and focus on the lim...

The silent killer or essential hypertension, is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, it affects 20% to 30% of the population worldwide and will alarmingly rise to 1.5 billion by 2020. Its heritability is around 31 to 68%, besides affecting environmental factors. Comparing to the last years, there have been a substantial progress in the understanding of the Blood pressure and HTN...

Many strategies have been proposed for the setting of quality goals in laboratory medicine. Traditional strategies are based on the use of reference intervals, opinions of clinicians, the state of the art, opinions of experts, assessment of the effect of error on clinical characteristics of tests, and biological variation. All have advantages and disadvantages but the use of data on biological ...

New World monkeys represent an important but often poorly understood research resource. The relatively small size and low zoonotic risk of these animals make them appealing as research subjects in a number of areas. However, historic portrayal of many of these species as difficult to manage and handle is one of the factors that has limited their use. Basic guidelines are provided on management ...

Objective: This is a translational science article that discusses copper alloys as antimicrobial environmental surfaces. Bacteria die when they come in contact with copper alloys in laboratory tests. Components made of copper alloys were also found to be efficacious in a clinical trial. Background: There are indications that bacteria found on frequently touched environmental surfaces play a rol...

We describe the current state of a resource that enables research in the human sciences with differential access rights for experimenters and participants in experiments. We outline advantages and foibles of Internet-based research – problems and solutions in sampling, for example. The functionality of the system from the three user views is presented: administrator, experimenter and participan...

Historically, health care information systems (HIS) have been designed to satisfy the needs and demands of administrators and clerks: laboratory managers, CFOs, the billing department. They have been purchased by providers as needs arose and linked together one at a time to satisfy specific requirements. These fragmented systems have been crippled by the distrust and parochialism that plague ma...