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Performance evaluation of the Arkray Adams HA-8160 HbA1C analyser
No full textthus playing a fundamental role in the management of diabetes. The relationship between HbA1c value
and long term diabetic complications has been established by a randomised control Diabetes Control
and Complications Trial (DCCT) which used high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) as a
reference method for HbA1c assay. To ensure that HbA1c results from a variety HbA1c assay methods are similar to the DCCT values, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommended that all laboratories should use methods certified by the National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Programme (NGSP) with interassay coefficient variation (CV) of < 5% (ideally < 3%). The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) working group on HbA1c standardisation has set a CV <
2.5% as a criteria for its reference laboratories. Objectives: To evaluate the performance of Arkray
Adams HA-8160 HbA1c analyser which uses a cation exchange HPLC method and its correlation
to HbA1c assay on Cobas Integra 800 which is an immunoturbidimetric method. Methods: For the
imprecision study, patient samples and control material of two levels were analysed on HA-8160
analyser 20 times in a single run (within-run imprecision) and twice a day on five consecutive days (between-run imprecision). For the recovery study, two samples each with high and low values were selected and mixed in ratios of 1:3, 1:1 and 3:1, and were analysed by HA-8160. Sixty samples were analysed by both Cobas Integra 800 and HA-8160 for method comparison study. Ten uraemic samples and ten thalassaemic samples were assayed on Cobas Integra 800 and HA 8160 for interference study. Results: Within-run CVs were 0.6% and 0.7% for medium and high value samples respectively, 0.6% and 0.7% for low and high level controls respectively. Between-run CVs were 0.5% and 0.4% for medium and high value samples respectively, 0.5% and 0.6% for low and high level controls respectively. The mean recovery was 100.1%. A good correlation between the 2 methods (Adams = 1.00 Cobas - 0.11, r = 0.98) was observed. Conclusions: The Akray Adams HA-8160 HbA1c analyser performed within the target CV of < 2.5% and showed a good correlation with the Cobas Integra 800
Wpływ PIX 123 i polielektrolitu Zetag 8160 na kondycjonowanie i odwadnianie osadów ściekowych
No full textThe paper presents the research on the possible use of inorganic coagulant and polyelectrolyte for conditioning of sonicated and non-sonicated digested sewage sludge. The digested sewage sludge from mechanical-biological wastewater treatment was analyzed. The effect of PIX 123 and polyelectrolyte Zetag 8160 and their combined effect on sonicated and nonsonicated sludge was determined. Dosing of coagulant to sludge does not create large and durable flocks that can be effectively separated by thickening or dewatering. Then, a good preconditions for creating strong flocs, obtaining a clear effluent, and improving the degree of sludge dewatering are formed. However, it requires to use a suitable polyelectrolyte after coagulation. For sludge samples the following tests were performed: capillary suction time, vacuum filtration, pressure filtration and sludge structure was observed. The suspension and COD content in the sludge liquids were also analyzed. For non-sonicated sludge prepared with Zetag 8160 or PIX 123 a better effect of the CSK decrease was obtained for Zetag 8160. For sonicated sludge PIX 123 was significantly more effective. Both the dose and the chemical used, as well as the sonication time, have a great impact on sludge structure transformation. The applied doses of PIX 123 and Zetag 8160 increased the degree of sludge dewatering, and the combined effect of ultrasonic field, PIX 123 and Zetag 8160 decreased the suspension and COD content in sludge liquids.Analizie poddano przefermentowane osady ściekowe pochodzące z mechaniczno-biologicznej oczyszczalni ścieków. W badaniach określono wpływ koagulantu PIX 123 i polielektrolitu Zetag 8160 oraz łącznego działania tych dwóch związków chemicznych na nienadźwiękawiane i nadźwiękawiane, przefermentowane osady. Dozowanie koagulantu do osadów ściekowych nie powoduje tworzenia się dużych i trwałych flokuł, które można skutecznie oddzielić w procesach zagęszczania czy odwadniania. Tworzą się za to dobre wstępne warunki do powstania silnych kłaczków, poprawy stopnia odwadniania osadów oraz otrzymania klarownego odcieku. Warunkiem jest zastosowanie po koagulancie odpowiedniego polielektrolitu. Dla osadów ściekowych wykonano następujące badania: czasu ssania kapilarnego, filtracji próżniowej, filtracji ciśnieniowej, a także obserwowano ich strukturę. Analizowano również zawartość zawiesiny i ChZT w wodzie nadosadowej. W przypadku osadów nienadźwiękawianych preparowanych Zetagiem 8160 lub PIX 123 lepszy efekt spadku wartości CSK uzyskano dla Zetagu 8160. Natomiast w przypadku osadów nadźwiękawianych zdecydowanie skuteczniejszy okazał się PIX 123. Zarówno dawka, jak i rodzaj zastosowanych środków chemicznych, a także czas sonifikacji mają wpływ na procesy zachodzące w badanych osadach. Zastosowane dawki PIX 123 i Zetagu 8160 wpłynęły na zwiększenie stopnia odwodnienia osadów. Ponadto łączne działanie pola ultradźwiękowego, PIX 123 i Zetagu 8160 pozwoliło na zmniejszenie zawartości zawiesin i ChZT w wodach nadosadowych
Linked collectors and determiners for: Revision of the genus Systellapha Enderlein (Micropezidae, Taeniapterinae).
No full textNatural history specimen data linked to collectors and determiners held within, "Revision of the genus Systellapha Enderlein (Micropezidae, Taeniapterinae)". Claims or attributions were made on Bionomia by volunteer Scribes, <a href="http://bionomia.net/dataset/4dfefad7-ba65-470c-8160-112cb68332f3">https://bionomia.net/dataset/4dfefad7-ba65-470c-8160-112cb68332f3</a> using specimen data from the dataset aggregated by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, <a href="https://gbif.org/dataset/4dfefad7-ba65-470c-8160-112cb68332f3">https://gbif.org/dataset/4dfefad7-ba65-470c-8160-112cb68332f3</a>. Formatted as a Frictionless Data package
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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