MANIFESTO FOR COLLECTIONS-BASED RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Manifesto for Collections-Based Research and Teaching

Most of this manifesto refers to Self Defense the PhD level, but elements of this training are applicable to BA and MA contexts as well.My point is that research activity is the most vital constituent of any successful university learning environment, and research environments are not unique to the university.It is a pedagogical position, not an in

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Cerenkov Counter for In-Situ Groundwater Monitoring of 90Sr

Groundwater contamination from 90Sr is an environmental challenge posed topresent and former nuclear weapons related sites.Traditional methods of extractinggroundwater samples and performing laboratory analyses are expensive, time-consumingand induce significant disposal challenges.The authors present here a prototype countercapable of measuring 90

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Commercial serological antibody detection tests for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND: The global tuberculosis epidemic results in nearly 2 million deaths and 9 million new cases of the disease a year.The vast majority of tuberculosis patients live in developing countries, where the diagnosis of tuberculosis relies on the identification of acid-fast bacilli on unprocessed sputum smears using conventional light microscopy.

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Proteomic analysis of differentially expressed proteins in Penaeus monodon hemocytes after Vibrio harveyi infection

Abstract Background Viral and bacterial diseases can cause mass mortalities in commercial shrimp aquaculture.In contrast to studies on the antiviral response, the responses of shrimps to bacterial infections by high throughput techniques have been reported only at the transcriptional Ice Makers level and not at the translational level.In this study

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Older adult and family caregiver experiences with prescription medication labels and their suggestions for label improvement

Background: Prescription medication labels (PMLs) are an important source of written medication information for patients.However, real-world PMLs do not entirely conform with available labelling best practices and guidelines.Given this disconnect, older adults remain particularly at risk of misinterpreting their PMLs.Past studies have commonly asse

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