It feels more like each strand of hair is being torn rather than cut, barber Sylvester Muthama explains as he demonstrates the manual clippers which he uses to cut hair in his salon in rural Kenya.
Moreover, plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate that manual recounts are so unreliable that their use rises to the level of a constitutional injury.
In a study using EB, a close correlation was demonstrated between manual and automated BSI measurements, and the merit of the latter was 100% reproducibility [9].
Standard Giemsa banding analysis demonstrated that manual dissection prevented chromosomal abnormalities, sustaining normal cell karyotype for up to 75 passages.
We demonstrate that manual collection of mass scale gene expression data will allow derivation of a 'reliability score' for binary expression status of genes.
We demonstrate that manual curation of protein sequences leads to significant improvements over existing annotations, and that there is therefore value in generating such annotation sets.
The comparison between MDR analysis and expert annotation in barley clearly demonstrated that manual annotation, if carefully done, can identify almost all TEs present in a sequence.
Puszko [ 12] demonstrated that manual flushing of channels during the cleaning phase results in potential for repetitive strain injuries in reprocessing personnel and that using flushing pumps provided a more reliable way to ensure adequate fluid volumes were consistently used.
Prior to this analysis, there was no reliable reference gene set available for the mouse strain C57BL/6J defensin genes, demonstrating that manual intervention is still critical for the annotation of complex gene families and heavily duplicated regions.
In prior studies, we have demonstrated that manual de-identification by medical professionals is prohibitively time-consuming, expensive [ 3], and unreliable [ 4]. (We found that resident clinicians could de-identify at a rate of about 18,000 words, or 90 incidents of PHI, per hour).
