Each study site adhered to standards of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice [ 10], the HPTN Manual of Laboratory Operations, and local standard operating procedures for proper collection, processing, labeling, transport of specimens to the local testing laboratories, storage, and shipping of specimens to the HPTN Network Laboratory.
As they slashed their way through the jungle with machetes, wading rivers and climbing slippery mountains, they documented, photographed, and collected specimens of the local flora and fauna.
Systematic investigations of the microstructure of Ni50Ti33Zr16Si1, Ni45Cu5Ti33Zr16Si1 and Ni40Cu10Ti33Zr16Si1 slowly cooled bulk specimens reveal the local occurrence of an amorphous phase in these alloys.
Model samples have been placed in galvanized rack (Figure 3) specifically built for field testing, located outdoor in an unsheltered area, exposed to environmental impact so that at each site of exposure specimens of the local lithotype are present and Carrara marble as well.
These efforts ultimately allowed for the collection and screening of dozens of patient samples; a marked improvement in patient participation rates over other previous, but similar, attempts to collect biological specimens from the local population.
The lack of capacity to test influenza specimens at the local level using reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) negatively affected case and contact investigations and slowed LHDs' ability to determine the status of suspected influenza cases, which in turn slowed the implementation of mitigation efforts.
The tissue specimen of L835 was retrieved from the resection specimen of the local recurrence of a chondrosarcoma occurring in the left distal radius of a 54 year-old male.
It has been confirmed by many authors that the specific fracture energy of concrete determined by laboratory experiments depends on the shape and size of the specimen because the local energy in the fracture process zone is influenced by the free surface of the specimen.
Such an advantage is realized by measuring the test specimen at the local neck region.
Using these parameters, a fatigue-life estimation for notched specimens based on the local strain approach is carried out.
