Trichomonas testing was performed on women only following the trial protocol.
Athletes performed the following incremental test protocol: 5 min 50 w warm-up, increments of 50 w per minute until exhaustion.
The PD50 test was performed to assess the subunit vaccine potency by following the bovine potency test protocol described by the OIE to test the traditional inactivated FMD vaccines.
Additionally, in some cases, following a specific test protocol, the respirometer can indirectly estimate the carbon dioxide evolved during biodegradation process for calculating respiratory activity parameter such as respiratory quotient.
The following test protocols were designed for the experiment: single-sided contact versus two-sided contact, more versus fewer cut edges, and glass migration cell versus metal one.
Doxorubicin was tested following the same protocol and was used as positive control.
The specimens were then prepared for SBS testing following the same protocol described for the preparation of enamel specimens, except for the acid-etching step which was carried out using 10% hydrofluoric acid for 90 s (Condac Porcelana, FGM).
The specificity of the signals was tested following the same protocol but incubating only with a secondary antibody or using a non-immunogenic IgG as primary antibody (data not shown).
Livestock sera were tested following the standard protocol of RBT Biocombinate State Owned Enterprisee, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Brucellosis National Reference Center, Santa Fe, Spain).
In prison, individuals willing to be tested for HIV or HCV had access to 1 of the 3 CDAG centres for HIV or HCV testing following the same protocol as that for the general population.
For each of the three view categories, we use the following testing protocol: (i) per subject, discard the two orientations that do not have to be tested, (ii) train a gender classifier using all the cycles belonging to the two orientations that do not have to be tested, and (iii) test with the cycles of the subject belonging to the testing orientation.
