The inference bears on the evolutionary history of the sampled populations by quantifying the relative support of data to possible scenarios and by estimating posterior densities of associated parameters.
This "shotgun" approach can identify which genes are active in a given sample by quantifying the production of specific mRNAs.
A fibrosis index was derived by quantifying the collagen content of each sample using 30 randomly selected fields for each section stained by Masson's trichrome technique.
The background was determined by quantifying the intergenic regions for each sample and taking the value of the 95th percentile as background expression (Additional file 2).
We have validated these infection-specific expression differences by using microarrays on a larger set of samples, and by quantifying the expression of individual genes using RT-PCR.
Shown are 100G wide first derivative spectra with the relative signal intensity between samples normalized by quantifying the absolute number of spins.
Our future studies will examine whether the increased Th1 status in this population is indeed attributable to household endotoxin (Gereda et al. 2000; Park et al. 2001; Roponen et al. 2005) by quantifying the endotoxin levels in house dust samples.
Furthermore, mapped areas should be adjusted to eliminate bias attributable to map classification error and these error-adjusted area estimates should be accompanied by confidence intervals to quantify the sampling variability of the estimated area.
The POCT that will be evaluated is called Flexicult™ and is a simple point of care culture procedure, and provides clinicians, at the point of care, within 24 hours, with a microbiological diagnosis of bacterial UTI by quantifying bacteria in the urine sample (or not) and determining sensitivities of any identified pathogen to the antibiotics most commonly used for UTI in primary care [ 8].
Our graphic approach using Eq.2demonstrates that the instrument contribution to the Bragg peak broadening (in the unit of Δd and further in strain and stress) can be quantified by the sample itself as long as a stress-free state is obtained through high-temperature annealing of the polycrystalline materials.
