On my final day I took the trail to the Ribeirão do Meio, a natural rock slide an hour's walk from Lençóis.
During non-lab time, when students had greater control over their pacing, students looked at an average of 10 slides per hour and spent 10 minutes and 11 seconds per slide (P = 0.07 for the difference between in-lab and out-of-lab view duration).
We took a micro-costing approach to make an initial estimate of the costs of DNA ploidy analysis, based on a 5-year shelf life for a cytometer, an estimated cost of $1 million, the ability to process 15 000 to 50 000 slides per year at the speed of 40 slides per hour, and inexpensive labor cost for technicians (high school diploma with short training) of $20 per hour (Garner, 2014).
HEK293S-TetR-CD81 cells were cultured on BD BioCoat culture slides, 24 hours or 48 hours after induction the wells were washed with 1× PBS, and then fixed in 3.7% formaldehyde/1× PBS for 15 min at room temperature.
"If you have a very good microscopist looking through one slide for hours, you get a result that is 50% accurate.
For comparison, the most commonly used current diagnosis technique is manual inspection of a Giemsa-stained blood smear by light microscopy, and this requires a trained technician who can only score fewer than 100 slides per hour.
Squirting some soapy water on a tarp will give your kids a homemade slip 'n slide for hours of fun.
Pietromiarchi went to see her, and showed her slides for hours.
"But now we've got highly paid people sitting there formatting slides — spending hours formatting slides — because it's more fun to do that than concentrate on what you're going to say.
Shares of Electronic Arts slid after hours, dropping 1.4%, or 65 cents, to $46.75.
