From the viewpoint of the clinical laboratory, the consolidation of as many assays and types of assays as possible onto a single and existing automated analyzer (platform) is desirable. Such consolidation, which reduces the complexity and overall cost of a laboratory operation, is exemplified by the implementation of nonseparation (homogeneous) immunoassays such as enzyme multiplied immunoassay...

Unstructured and semi-structured text has contributed substantially to the rapid proliferation of data. Large quantities of automatically, editorially and user created documents are generated in large quantities daily, covering web pages, blog posts, text messages, tweets, and more. They are accompanied by large quantities of auxiliary text data, corresponding to various kinds of logs (search, ...

A N explora t ion was made, o n the in i t i a t ive of Professor P C Mahalanobis . F R S, of possible appl icat ions of geographical techniques to problems of nat ional p lanning; in I n d i a . In pa r t i cu l a r a p i l o t project in regional survey fo r p lanning, purposes was car r ied out in Mysore State, w i th the col labora t ion of I n d i a n geographers, statisticians, and econom...

A artificial somatic-autonomic reflex pathway procedure for restoringvoluntary bladder and bowel control in patients with Spina Bifida wasintroduced. Clinical application and the results of the new procedure arereviewed in detail.

Halfway through the 20th century, views on pain in labour encompassed almost everything from women's self-blame to blaming nurses, midwives, doctors or partners for 'bad experiences'. Soon after that, giving birth came to be seen - in some settings and by some caregivers - as a 'natural' and thus benign event which women could 'master'. In their recent systematic review of women's expectations ...

developed midwifery, that the U.S.A. had developed nursing, but that Britain had managed to combine them in the way that was needed. Accordingly, she and her nurses took midwifery training in London. But she was also convinced that the nurse-midwife could and should combine sick nursing and preventive work, something that many Britons, then and now, see as far from ideal. We could do worse than...

A main concept in the use of grids for distributed computing or shared data management is the concept of visualization, that means user visualization and of course resource visualization. A single user should work on the shared resources of a grid without worrying about having a user accounts on all the different machines evolved in his calculation or data search process. This virtualization of...

The process of erythrocyte invasion by merozoites of Plasmodium falciparum involves multiple steps, including the formation of a moving junction between parasite and host cell, and it is characterised by the redundancy of many of the receptor–ligand interactions involved. Several parasite proteins that interact with erythrocyte receptors or participate in other steps of invasion are encoded by ...

The re-emergence of the zoonotic importance of trichinellosis reminds us that this parasite's unique biological features serve it well in helping it to persist in the face of 150 years of efforts to eliminate it from the food chain. Because of Trichinella's re-emergence as an important public health risk, and the consequent stimulation of research, our knowledge of the parasite has grown, espec...

In the fall of 1999, Mark Tushnet published a celebrated foreword to the Supreme Court edition of the Harvard Law Review arguing that the Rehnquist Court’s decisions could be understood as part of an era marked by divided government and sharply reduced ambitions for the transformative potential of constitutional law.1 Almost exactly two years later, on September 11, 2001, airplanes crashed into...