Three isolated specimens, which represented a part of the edge panel in the vicinity of the column at full scale, were loaded to failure.
Specimens which represented both urban and rural NSW populations were retrieved using postcode of residence.
We collected 1,619 avian blood specimens, which represented 98 species, 25 families, and eight orders.
A further 24,094 specimens, which represented samples taken from multiple anatomical sites during the same testing episode, were excluded for analysis by age and sex, leaving a total of 592,626 tests.
Three slab-column specimens, which represent interior, edge, and corner connections, and three isolated column specimens were tested to investigate the axial load transfer in non-slender ultra-high-strength concrete (UHSC, f′c ≈ 200 MPa) columns through normal-strength concrete (NSC, f′c ≈ 50 MPa) slabs.
As for the previous study, the present investigation of slender column elements is based on the use of indeterminate specimens (which represent more realistically elements in a building than their determinate counterparts) designed by using two different methods: the truss analogy method, as applied by current codes of practice, and the compressive-force path method.
The specimens, which represent a subset of a larger case series already characterized for TMM (Costa et al, 2006), were consecutive with respect to the availability of frozen tissue and adequate clinicopathologic and follow-up information.
For example, we could attain 94% of successful barcode from over a thousand of Hemiptera specimens which represents over 200 species with only two PCR amplification steps; the first run, performed with standard primer, obtained only 82% successes.
In order to extend the utility of the DASL assay with respect to microarray analysis of FFPE breast cancer tumour specimens, which represent a vast archive of well-characterised clinically annotated samples (Lewis et al, 2001), we have designed a 512-gene custom BCP for use in the DASL assay to expression profile mRNA transcripts using RNA extracted from FFPE tissues.
In this study we have shown that it is feasible to use degraded RNA prepared from FFPE breast tumour specimens, which represent the largest collection of well-annotated, clinical tumour samples that are readily available for conducting large retrospective studies, for expression profiling on the DASL platform.
Other specimen sources which represented a very small percentage of patients included aspirate, mucus, or bronchial or nasal washes.
