In response to public outrage stemming from exposés of animal abuse in research laboratories, the US Congress in 1985 mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) to oversee animal use at institutions receiving federal grants. IACUCs were enjoined to respect public concern about the treatment of animals in research, but they were not specifically instructed whether or not to p...

The purpose of the report is to describe dissection techniques for preparing the crayfish hindgut and to demonstrate how to make physiological recordings with a force transducer to monitor the strength of contraction. In addition, we demonstrate how to visually monitor peristaltic activity, which can be used as a bioassay for various peptides, biogenic amines and neurotransmitters. This prepara...

 This paper describes a remote-experimentation project that is part of a virtual laboratory (VLab). The activity is organized around a spectrum analyzer and a function generator, as real devices mirrored into Web (Internet) nodes. A logically structured replica of the Advantest spectrum analyzer is realized on a LabVIEW platform, in a client-server approach. The application also integrates sev...

The Edge is a relative newcomer to organizational design--one that appears especially appropriate for contemporary military operations, but also raises issues regarding comparative performance of the Edge to alternate organizational designs, including more traditional hierarchal configurations. These issues suggest that laboratory experimentation, with coherently structured controls and manipul...