Brazil was heralded for completion of the first genome sequence of a plant pathogen following the development of a virtual research center - a collaborative network of laboratories throughout the state of São Paulo, drawing on the expertise of a dispersed and diverse scientific community and on investment from both the government and the private sector. Strategies key to the success of this mod...

In recent years there has been a growing voice of concern that a considerable percentage of published scientific discoveries fail to replicate in subsequent studies. The issue is especially relevant to preclinical studies and animal models, and has recently led to reconsideration of policies by NIH [1], as well as by some scientific journals including Science [2] and Nature [3]. Behavioral phen...

We predict that high-resolution displays will penetrate scientific laboratories first, and will become pervasive at the office, in the cubicle, and meeting room, and ultimately at home. In this paper, we present a novel approach to distribute high-resolution images tomultiple tiled displays in real-time using a high-performance PC cluster. This approach allows users to share their visualization...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Solvents used in production facility-affiliated private laboratories have been seldomly reported. This study was initiated to specify solvent use characteristics in private laboratories in comparison with the use in public research laboratories and on production floors. Elucidation of the applicability of conclusions from a public laboratory survey to private instituti...

Aristo Vojdani, PhD, is a respected researcher, scientist, speaker and author. He has published over 120 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, is a multiple US patent holder for laboratory assays, and has received the Herbert J. Rinkle Award from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine for excellence in teaching the techniques of environmental medicine. He is the founder, techni...

AIMS To identify the number and type of infections occurring in United Kingdom clinical laboratories during 1994 and 1995, following similar surveys covering 1970 to 1989. METHODS A retrospective questionnaire survey was undertaken of 397 responding UK clinical laboratories covering 1994 and 1995. A follow up telephone survey was undertaken with each of the laboratories from which a questionn...

objective: noise pollution is one of the most important situations requiring a solution by the contemporary world. the national institute for occupational safety and health has identified noise as one of the ten leading causes of work-related diseases and injuries. dentists and dental auxiliaries are exposed to different noise levels while working in dental offices or laboratories. the purpose ...

The dendritic trees of hippocampal pyramidal cells play important roles in the establishment and regulation of network connectivity, synaptic plasticity, and firing dynamics. Several laboratories routinely reconstruct CA3 and CA1 dendrites to correlate their three-dimensional structure with biophysical, electrophysiological, and anatomical observables. To integrate and assess the consistency of...