Utilising Smartphone Light Sensors to Measure Egg White Ovalbumin Concentration in Eggs Collected from Yinchuan City, China by Linlin Liu, Hualin Bi

“…Cost-effective, portable, and rapid smartphone sensors will play a critical role in bringing chemical detection technologies from central laboratories to simple laboratories, such as those of schools in less-developed area. …”
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Rapid Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections Using Technologies Based on Nucleic Acid Detection by François J Picard, Michel G Bergeron

“…The potential of these assays for routine use in clinical microbiology laboratories is also discussed.…”
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Experimental uncertainty budget for concrete compressive strength test based on a multifactorial analysis by Stamatia Gavela, Nikolaos Nikoloutsopoulos, George Papadakos, Dimitra Passa, Anastasia Sotiropoulou

“…Experiment I is proposed as a simple, suit¬ably designed, reproducibility trial for laboratories performing EN 12390 test method, i.e. when a specified nominal curing age is targeted, following experi¬mental design on multiple uncertainty parameters. …”
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La produzione sociale di memorie marginali. I casi studio delle minoranze del Somaliland e dei giovani migranti somali in Italia by Elia Vitturini

“…Somali groups distributed in the Horn of Africa and several diasporas have developed different types of social laboratories through which memories about the past of individuals and communities are elaborated and produced. …”
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Maximal productivity rate of threading machine operations by Ryspek Usubamatov, Darina Kurganova, Sarken Kapayeva

“…The machine tools’ work in the manufacturing environment differs from the research laboratories. This work considers the analytical optimization of the cutting speed for the threading machine tool by the criterion of its maximal productivity rate.…”
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ROLE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN ENCOURAGING DISTANCE EDUCATION AND OTHER METHODS TO REDUCE COSTS OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION by Walter W. Buchanan

“…“Flipped” classrooms where lectures can be done by distance education followed by live discussions and laboratories is one example of what can be done to reduce costs. …”
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Positive Urine Cultures: A Major Cause of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals? by Samuel A Silver, Laura Baillie, Andrew E Simor

“…INTRODUCTION: Urine specimens are among the most common samples submitted for culture to microbiology laboratories. The objectives of the present study were to describe the indications for obtaining urine cultures in a cohort of hospitalized patients, and to determine the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy in response to urine culture results.…”
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THE АRCTIC INNOVATIVE CENTER АS A RESOURCE FOR INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY INFRASTRUCTURE by Roman R. Nogovitsyn, Afanasiy A. Vinokurov

“…The article focuses on the goals, the key areas of its activity, describes the main achievements of the research laboratories and the activities of small innovation enterprises.…”
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Genomics costing tool: considerations for improving cost-efficiencies through cross scenario comparison by Marco Marklewitz, Alexandr Jaguparov, Aude Wilhelm, Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Biran Musul, Angela Lee Poates, Babak Afrough, Ashley Norberg, Noah Clayton Hull, Soudeh Ehsani, Group members of GCT pilot working group, Joanna Salvi Le Garrec, Toni Whistler

“…To validate the GCT, it was piloted in public health laboratories across three WHO regions: African, Eastern Mediterranean, and European. …”
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Biosécurité et surveillance épidémiologique by Valleron, Alain-Jacques

“…A new problem is that these tools can be used out of the research laboratories, because they are relatively cheap and easy to develop. …”
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Do not let perfect be the enemy of good: the current reality of Bordetella testing by Rebecca Yee

“…The results demonstrated that the overall agreement among the assays from the commercial laboratories and the CDC was 85%. Only a small percentage (1.4%) of specimens positive for IS481 were identified as B. holmesii. …”
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An investigation on the uncertainty of fill factor by Pavanello Diego, Sample Tony, Müllejans Harald

“…Considering the goal of top calibration laboratories to measure Pmax with the lowest possible uncertainty, the improvement in FF uncertainty measurement is significant, ensuring more accurate labeling of photovoltaic modules.…”
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Diagnosing Asthma: The Fit between Survey and Administrative Database by Lisa Huzel, Leslie L Roos, Nick R Anthonisen, Jure Manfreda

“…BACKGROUND:Standard methods for population studies of asthma include surveying population samples using questionnaires and examining people in laboratories. These procedures are extremely expensive. …”
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Galaxy @Sciensano: a comprehensive bioinformatics portal for genomics-based microbial typing, characterization, and outbreak detection by Bert Bogaerts, Julien Van Braekel, Alexander Van Uffelen, Jolien D’aes, Maxime Godfroid, Thomas Delcourt, Michael Kelchtermans, Kato Milis, Nathalie Goeders, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Nancy H. C. Roosens, Raf Winand, Kevin Vanneste

“…Many of these pipelines are part of the routine activities of Belgian national reference centers and laboratories, some of which use them under ISO accreditation. …”
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An approach to the history of the Cienfuegos Subsidiary of the Cuban Society of Clinical Pathology by Pedro Sánchez Frenes, Orietta Mediaceja Vicente, Dayamí García Torres, María de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Pedro Javier Sánchez Sánchez, Martina Jiménez Suárez

“…A historical research is presented about the foundation and evolution of the Cuban subsidiary of clinical pathology in Cienfuegos, contextualized in antecedents, development and present situation of the clinical laboratories in the province. The most complex and important tasks which were developed by the members of the scientific society from its foundation to the current period are stated, so as future challenges.…”
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Synthetic tensor gauge fields by Shaoliang Zhang, Chenwei Lv, Qi Zhou

“…The very rich physics brought about by coupling tensor gauge fields to fracton phases of matter remains unexplored in laboratories. Here, we propose schemes to realize synthetic tensor gauge fields that address dipoles instead of single particles. …”
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Research the causes of formation of internal pores (blowholes) in welded joints of metal wire cord by I. V. Borisovets, T. P. Kurenkova, A. A. Sakharnaja

“…The article analyzes the results of the work carried out in the laboratories of the Belarusian metallurgical works – the management company of the Belarusian metallurgical company holding, and identifies possible causes of this defect in the structure of welded metal wire cord joints.…”
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Development of a Methodology for the Determination of Pesticide Residues in Cajá-Manga Pulp (Spondias dulcis L.) Using Solid-Liquid Extraction with Low-Temperature Partitioning by Escarlet T. D. Santana, Dayane F. Soares, Anizio M. Faria

“…In this work, a simple, rapid, and accessible methodology to small laboratories was developed, optimized, and validated for the determination of four pesticide residues in the cajá-manga pulp: chlorpyrifos, thiabendazole, carboxin, and difenoconazole. …”
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THE ROLE OF THE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER IN INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION by Alyona Yu. Levykh, Lyudmila V. Vedernikova

“…The article describes the structure, main tasks of the research and education center, and the functions of the constituent laboratories.…”
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Cryptobia iubilans in Cichlids by Ruth Francis-Floyd, Roy Yanong

“… After many years of diagnostics at the University of Florida and at other laboratories around the country, it appears that Cryptobia iubilans is not uncommon among cichlids, and that environmental and other factors determine the extent of disease. …”
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