The methodologies of the submitted researches were categorized as to whether it involved 1) human subject research (e.g., the prospective collection of biological specimens or the performance of qualitative research), 2) research that could be exempt from ongoing ethics review, and 3) research not involving human subjects.
Because of the close correlation between disease severity, intravenous rehydration and the type of specimen collected, the performance characteristics were assessed in four subgroups based on the specimen collected (bulk stool or enriched rectal swab) and treatment received (intravenous fluids or no intravenous fluids).
The association between the quality of sputum specimen and the performance of smear-microscopy is well known and could explain partially the gender imbalance among smear positive TB patients, because men tend to produce a better sputum than women [ 18].
In addition to virgin specimens, the durability performances of mechanically loaded specimens are also tested.
A series of manufacturing parameters, such as quick lime and aluminate cement dosages, water to solid ratio (W/S), CFA fineness and type, chemical activators and so on, were investigated based on the density and compressive strength of specimens and the performances of products were also tested in this paper.
Prior handling of the specimens as opposed to usage directly after decontamination might have compromised the quality of the specimens and thus the performance of the assays.
Static lateral load tests were conducted on a total of thirteen full-scale wall panel specimens to investigate the performance of CFS walls utilizing primarily the construction details used in Turkey.
However, the results of microstructure analysis on concrete specimens showed that the performance of FA is better than other additives used in the study under the effect of high temperature.
We used the test specimens to evaluate the performance of the Maxent projections using two widely used statistics that are recommended when evaluation absences are unavailable.
In each run plasmids containing the target regions for all agents were amplified in parallel with patient specimens to verify the performance of each target PCR (mastermix control).
