BACKGROUND : The variability of skin prick test results when carried out by multiple users has not previously been assessed across different devices or between different sites on the body. Such multiuser variability has important implications for clinical practice. OBJECTIVES : We assessed the variability of measurements from 4 commonly used single-headed skin test devices when used by multip...

Neurosecrets such as vasopressin and oxytocin are believed to be involved in the mechanism(s)of the release of pituitary ACTH and gonadotrophin,respectively (Shibusawa, 1955); and it is well accepted that the thyroid gland is under the control of the pituitary. Only scant attention has, however, been paid on the relation of the hypothalamus to the pituitary-thyroidal function. In terms of hypot...

uman resources outsourcing is the fastest-growing outsourcing segment (Dell, 2004). HR outsourcing takes place when a company contracts with an HR vendor to perform an HR activity previously performed by the company (Greer, Youngblood, & Gray, 1999). Forecasts predict that HR outsourcing will continue to grow by more than 30 percent so that the global expenditure on HR outsourcing in the United...

The Greer, Pujo-Menjouet and Webb model [Greer et al., J. Theoret. Biol., 242 (2006), 598–606] for prion dynamics was found to be in good agreement with experimental observations under no-flow conditions. The objective of this work is to generalize the problem to the framework of general polymerization-fragmentation under flow motion, motivated by the fact that laboratory work often involves pr...

The results of these experiments show, in short, that, by the method employed, adrenalin could neither be demonstrated in the specimen of blood, nor in either of the two specimens of malignant hypernephroma, nor in the specimen of metastatic tissue from the adrenal tumor which closely resembled a malignant hypernephroma. The results agree with those of Greer and Wells in showing that no adrenal...

Greer, J. E., Sarah Falk, K. J. Greer, and M. J. Bentham. 1993. Explaining and justifying recommendations in an agriculture decision support system. Comput. Electron. Agric. Agricultural decision support systems are not being readily accepted by all potential users. This paper discusses the reasons for this lack of user acceptance and proposes a method for rectifying this problem. The method is...

The sense of smell is mediated by GPCRs in the odorant receptor (OR) family. Greer et al. report a new family of odor detectors, MS4As, that have similar cellular localization and chemodetection ability as ORs but are not GPCRs and follow a strikingly different logic of odor coding at the periphery.