Single letter and linear acuity (near and distance) and contrast sensitivity were measured in 15 amblyopes (ages 5 to 12) before, during, and after four weekly 7 min sessions of CAM treatment. Six of the children, however, played games over a homogeneous grey disc having the same space-averaged luminance as that of the striped stimuli. Experimental and controls results were indistinguishable. I...

Determination of normal gastric emptying time and small intestinal transit time are useful in detecting gastrointestinal motility disorders and partial obstructions of the pylorus or small intestine. This study was conducted to evaluate iodixanol as a contrast agent in the gastrointestinal tract in New Zealand White rabbit. Twelve clinically healthy adult rabbits were prepared and kept for two ...

The Joint Commission recently revised Information Management (IM) Standard IM.02.01.03, element of performance (EP) 5, Note 2, for laboratories. The revision is a result of a final rule effective April 7, 2014,* in which the US Department of Health & Human Services modified the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ...

We describe a call for an international coordinated effort in rice functional genomics in the form of a project named RICE2020. Themission of the project will be: to determine the function of every gene in the rice genome by the year 2020, to identify functional diversity of alleles for agriculturally useful genes from the primary gene pool of rice, and to apply the findings of functional genom...

Animal biotechnology encompasses a broad range of techniques for the genetic improvement of domesticated animal species, although the term is increasingly associated with the more controversial technologies of cloning and genetic engineering. Despite the many potential applications of these two biotechnologies, no public or private entity has yet delivered a genetically engineered food-animal p...

The American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) a national professional association whose members are directors, owners, managers, and supervisors of community clinical laboratories respectfully submits the following comments relating to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) medical devices draft guidance for Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) criteria for waiver. AAB me...

The service architecture of the SCAMPI platform will be built form scratch. There has been interest to use RESTful like approach; however, the opportunistic aspects of the network impose several challenges on the approach. Thus, one of our major interests in this workshop is to hear more about recent work in Constrained RESTful Environments (CORE) working group. Moreover, energy efficiency is a...

Clonal stability of tree dryness was evaluated in eleven clones of Hevea brasiliensis at the Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria. The experimental design was the randomized complete block with three replicates and ten trees per replicate. The clones were evaluated in three locations. Four stability parameters were applied. The stability parameters were: environmental variance, regression index...

Clinical microbiology laboratory directors come from diverse backgrounds with overlapping but not identical training experiences. Although director responsibilities are defined by CLIA legislation, there is no standardization of job descriptions among hospital or university settings. One job that would make the microbiology director indispensable, if done well, is clinical consultation. Other c...