In the beginning of testing, the specimen has to be totally water saturated and dry on the surface, which is sometimes hard to control in the laboratory environment.
CD4 count and HIV viral load were measured at the beginning and end of the specimen collection period.
Not all general physicians' offices have equipment for blood centrifugation, and at the beginning of the NOWAC blood specimen collection in 2002 the range of future analyses had not yet been determined.
The mean time from the beginning of specimen imaging to the reporting of either the pathologic assessment or IOPTH, whichever came first (first result), was 22 ± 2 minutes (range 11 44; n = 26).
In the 5 prostatectomy specimens analyzed before beginning analysis of the biopsy specimen the AR protein expression was not different between TE (the highest Gleason pattern) and NE (P = 0.257).
Five prostatectomy specimens were analyzed before beginning analysis of the biopsy specimen.
The mean time from the beginning of specimen imaging (including imaging of positive and negative pathology specimens) to confirmation of intraoperative frozen section pathology analysis or IOPTH results was 21 ± 1 minutes (range 11 36; n = 26) and 45 ± 4 minutes (range 27 96; n = 23), respectively.
Looking closer at these methods, it turned out that, most of them produce a mixed state of normal and shear stress mainly due to unavoidable load eccentricities, and hence bending moments which occur either from the beginning or after some deformation of the specimen.
The vertical arrows at the beginning of the fatigue curve indicate that the specimen did not fail after 200,000,000 cycles.
This table summarises the results of the cyclic fatigue to failure tests by listing the maximal compressive force, lateral and vertical stiffness of the specimens at the beginning of the first load step, the number of cycles performed prior to the failure, and the types of failure.
