We demonstrate that individually assessing and minimizing specimen collection aspect, height and mass prior to aggregating specimens into samples can reduce local variation, which will improve between site comparisons.
The virtual-pivot mechanism enables various designs of specimen-retaining and can reduce the shadowing effect.
Robotic specimen archival/retrieval units can reduce manual effort in the clinical laboratory associated with add-on orders.
Furthermore, rapid identification of alien specimens can drastically reduce the time taken to respond to new or potential invasions.
The two-step pressure profile can effectively reduce average grain size and grain size difference over the sintered specimen, while MgO doping can reduce the average grain size in the whole sintered samples.
However, in this process, the fiber incorporation can improve the bending strength of the specimen while the freeze-thaw can reduce the strength.
However, single-photon excitation used in CLSM results in broad exposure to high energy UV and visible excitation sources in the specimen above the focus plane, which can reduce the viability of photosensitive, living samples [ 2].
Sodium hydroxide, used to decontaminate the specimens, may damage the acid fast bacilli and can reduce the sensitivity of phage-based assays for detecting tuberculosis.
However, SAP particles can reduce compressive strength of 5 15% compared to control specimens.
In the locally-consolidated specimen, aramid threads are only wrapped around longitudinal members, which can reduce at least two-thirds time required by the entire consolidation process.
Rapid embedding protocols can reduce the time to approximately 1 day but with a loss in specimen quality (32 ).
