Partial Automation of Microbiological Assays for Vitamins

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1280-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
T O Richard Haggett ◽  
Alan R Matheson ◽  
Michelle Harnett
Keyword(s):  
Growth Response ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Turbidity Measurement ◽  
Microbiological Assays ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Ibm Pc ◽  
Partial Automation

Abstract The dispensing and turbidity measurement steps used in microbiological assays of B group vitamins were automated by the use of a Gilson hardware package, a specially constructed turbidimeter, an IBM PC-AT or compatible computer, and software written in-house to facilitate data entry, control the hardware, and calculate the results. Considerable improvement in the speed and precision of the turbidity measurement was achieved (1% compared to 3-12%). The precision of the dispensing operation was better than that of manual dispensing (0.02-0.8% compared to 0.4-2%), although the speed was not improved. However, results and errors obtained from the automated system did not significantly differ from those obtained by former procedures. This was attributed to growth response variations not related to the automated procedure. The automation process facilitated detection of errors and halved the operator time per assay.

Indexing The Canadian Encyclopedia second edition

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Author(s):  
Ron Gardner ◽  
Eve Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computer ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Fully Automatic ◽  
Ibm Pc

The index to the second edition of The Canadian Encyclopedia was prepared on an ibm pc-xt personal computer using the ibm Professional Editor, custom programs written in ibm Pascal, and TEX1 a high quality typesetting program developed by Donald E. Knuth of Stanford University in California. The entries were chosen and keyed in by the indexer, and then alphabetized, formatted, and typeset by the computer. An unusual data entry format together with good typesetting software made possible the delivery to the printer of the 372 page camera ready index less than two weeks after the indexer received the final pages of text. TEX (which rhymes with ‘blecchhh’ not the letter ‘X’) provides fully automatic pagination.

scholarly journals Study to compare between paperless partogram and modified who partogram in management of labour

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Veena L Sarojini ◽  
. Sarojini ◽  
Prathima Anagondanahalli ◽  
. Prakash ◽  
. Suchitra
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Prospective Observational Study ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Learning Time ◽  
Entry Cost ◽  
Group A ◽  
Group B ◽  
Monitoring Progress ◽  
Better Than

Background: Partogram is being used since 1954 when Friedman described it for monitoring progress of labour. The Paperless Partogram proposed by Dr. Debdas is a low-skill method for detection of abnormal labour. The main aim of the study is to know efficacy and user friendliness   of paperless partogram in comparison with WHO partogram in monitoring and management of labour.Methods: It’s a prospective observational study conducted at Vanivilas hospital where 200 women in labour were included. 6 resident doctors in shifts were asked to fill partograms 100 each for paperless (group A) and WHO (group B).Results: Paperless partogram has scored better than WHO partogram in terms of documentation, learning, time for data entry, cost effectiveness and monitoring of labour.Conclusions: In our study paperless partogram was found to be preferred for monitoring of labour.

The Role of the Computer in Team Problem-Solving: Critiquing or Partial Automation?

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (15) ◽  
pp. 1029-1029
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. E. Guerlain ◽  
Philip J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Computer System ◽  
Real World ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Rule Base ◽  
Heuristic Strategy ◽  
System Designs ◽  
Better Than

A testbed was developed for studying the effects of different computer system designs on human-computer team problem-solving, using the real-world task of antibody identification. The computer interface was designed so that practitioners could solve antibody identification cases using the computer as they normally would using paper and pencil. A rule-base was then encoded into the computer such that it had knowledge for applying a heuristic strategy that is often helpful for solving cases. With this testbed, studies have been run comparing different computer system designs. A critiquing system was found to be better than a partially automated system on cases where the computer's knowledge is incompetent.

Tropical jute with coated and uncoated urea

1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-188
Author(s):  
Apurba Sarkar ◽  
P. C. Mitra ◽  
A. R. Roy ◽  
G. C. Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Growth Response ◽  
Slow Release ◽  
Nitrification Inhibitor ◽  
Residual Effect ◽  
Exchange Capacity ◽  
Corchorus Capsularis ◽  
Coated Urea ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Urea Granules ◽  
Better Than

Jute (Corchorus capsularis L.) is grown in the tropics. It is next only to cotton in importance as a fibre crop. Adequate supplies of plant nutrients, especially N, are essential for its vegetative growth. Response to applied N varies from region to region. In a light-textured soil with low cation exchange capacity (CEC), part of the applied N is generally lost mostly under rainfall (Engelsted & Russel, 1975) and the rest is manifested in the form of residual effect (McEwen, 1970). Such losses can be reduced by using slow-release N fertilizers or by coating the urea granules by paraffin wax, resin, gum, lac, or with a nitrification inhibitor (Prasad, Raj ale & Lakhdive, 1971). There is little information on the use of these products on jute. Mondal, Dohary & Pal (1977) reported that coated urea is better than uncoated ones. The current programme was designed to give a better picture.

scholarly journals Flow Cell Modification of a Filter Fluorimeter Producing Improved Throughput and Precision

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-6) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Spencer ◽  
I. T. Sutherland ◽  
C. P. Price
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Flow ◽  
Flow Cell ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
Better Than

A modification of a Corning-EEL 244 filter fluorimeter to take a Hellma fluoronephelometric flow cell is described, and the characteristics of a standard flow cell and the Hellma flow cell are compared by the use of a continuous flow fluorimetric calcein—calcium method. The study shows that by this modification a considerable improvement in precision, carryover, and throughput is possible. The kinetically better Hellma flow cell enables speeds in excess of 70 per hour to be achieved with carryover and precision better than that obtained at 40 per hour with the standard flow cell. Curve regeneration of signals using the Hellma flow cell can also be carried out, enabling a further increase in analytical rate to be obtained.

scholarly journals An NLP Based Contrivance to Simplify Customer Interaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 2892-2895
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Visual Medium ◽  
Customer Interaction ◽  
Chat Bot

An intelligent application is an instrumental driving force in retention and satisfaction of customers. Consertle would be one of the first banking applications in India that enables users to interact with an intelligent application through a chat bot that is specifically designed to understand, interpret and analyze user behavior so as to provide better and more efficient results. While chat bots itself are a new introduction to the Indian financial system, an intelligent chat bot enables customer to instant and more efficient query resolution.Currently, most banking applications are visual medium which requires customer to proceed through various levels of data entry and selection in order to get the desired response. It may be a query related to one’s account, transactions or information about the bank in general; but the process to get a satisfactory result is a relatively long and tedious process. It is notable that automation in the financial sector is largely primitive even after the outbreak of technologies such as AI, CV, ML, etc.Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning enables the creation of an automated system that takes in input in the form of voice and/or text, processes it and gives an intelligent response to the user which would be aimed at satisfying their current requirements along with the possible, predicted, immediate query that is likely to arise. The key component of application Consertle is the portable mobile application that upholds the chatbot, where NLP based speech to text conversion and interpretation takes place, thus production accurate results and also providing suggestions, by analyzing user behavior which is dependent upon many factors.

Oxygen consumption measured with microcomputer-assisted Warburg manometry

1982 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1634-1637 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. A. Johnson ◽  
R. R. Mercer ◽  
P. C. Taylor ◽  
J. A. Graham ◽  
J. J. O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Infrared Photodetector ◽  
Volume Changes ◽  
Tissue Slices ◽  
Simultaneous Control ◽  
Manual Methods

We have developed and tested an automated system that measures in vitro oxygen consumption by Warburg manometry in as many as 16 units that are under the simultaneous control of a microcomputer which requires attention at the beginning of the study only. The all-glass Submarine Volumometers used are readily adapted to automation using a microcomputer that interacts with an infrared photodetector sensitive to manometric changes in the reaction vessel and a stepper motor that can advance the calibrated micrometer in response to these changes. The microcomputer interacts with the user at the start of the study during data entry and subsequently determines volume changes related to oxygen consumption, calculates respiration rates, and prints or graphs the results without further user interaction. We compared this automated system with manual methods by measuring the oxygen consumption of lung tissue slices and by determining the ability of the system to match known volumes entered manually. We found that the results obtained using the automated system were not significantly different from known manual methods (P less than 0.05).

scholarly journals A New Computerized Program for Surveillance of Prosthetic Arteriovenous Fistulas

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. napoc.2015.1468
Author(s):  
Matteo Tozzi ◽  
Marco Franchin ◽  
Vincenzo Formica ◽  
Matteo Ganna ◽  
Gabriele Piffaretti
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Graft Loss ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Arteriovenous Fistulas ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Common Causes ◽  
Surgical Evaluation ◽  
Analysis Of Results

Stenosis and thrombosis are common causes of prosthetic vascular access (pVA) failure. The role of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) surveillance is widely debated. The aim of this paper is to present a new real-time application designed for AVF surveillance called SPIDER. Surgical staff and hemodialysis nurses are responsible for data entry. SPIDER automatically analyses data and generates alerts in case of abnormal trends. Surgical evaluation and duplex Doppler ultrasonography are then immediately performed to confirm presence of stenosis or other possible pVA defects. Surgery can be performed if required. A preliminary analysis of results will be completed at 12 months after the program begins and subsequently after 24 months. Primary assisted patency will be compared with historical using multivariate analysis. Expected results are an improvement in primary assisted pVA patency and reduction of hospitalizations. Simultaneous management of a high number of patients can become difficult due to the large amount of data required for surveillance. We want to demonstrate whether a real-time automated system could help to prevent thrombosis and graft loss.

Informed but Insecure

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-81
Author(s):  
Erynn Masi de Casanova
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Considerable Improvement ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Main Barrier ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Better Than

This chapter analyzes the most extensive survey to date of domestic workers in Ecuador, with four hundred women sharing information about their working conditions, benefits, and social security. Most useful for informing policy and organizing strategies are the insights about which workers are most likely to know and demand their rights and the evidence that working conditions of current workers are better than those of former workers, which could indicate change over time. Efforts to inform workers of their right to social security seem to have been successful: 88 percent of the survey participants knew that domestic workers are entitled to join the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social (IESS). The main barrier to coverage, however, is the reluctance of employers to enroll workers and contribute on their behalf: nearly a third of survey respondents who were not enrolled reported that their employers' opposition was the reason why. Confirming research findings from around Latin America, working conditions reported by the survey participants are not good. However, they seem to be improving somewhat over time. More than twice as many current workers reported receiving overtime pay when compared with former workers. For vacation time and bonuses, more than four times as many current workers reported receiving these benefits. Despite this considerable improvement, there is still a long way to go for today's domestic workers.

Comparative growth response in Carduus nutans, C. acanthoides, and their F1 hybrids

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 1675-1679 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. Warwick ◽  
B. K. Thompson ◽  
L. D. Black
Keyword(s):  
Growth Response ◽  
Parental Species ◽  
Diploid Species ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Natural Hybridization ◽  
F1 Hybrids ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Hybrid Superiority ◽  
Test Models ◽  
Better Than

The growth response of F1 hybrids relative to parental genotypes was compared in a natural hybridization system involving the diploid species Carduus acanthoides L. (2n = 22) and C. nutans L. (2n = 16). The data were used to test models of hybrid intermediacy, superiority, or greater similarity to a single parent in response to variable soil conditions and intra- and inter-genotypic competition. Progeny from paired reciprocal crosses between the two species were used in the experiments. In each of the half-sib families produced, the rapid and early identification of F1 hybrid genotypes and parental genotypes (resulting from selfing) was confirmed using allozyme markers (Pgi-2, Tpi-1, and Tpi-2). Growth of the F1 hybrids was better than C. nutans in poor soil, and both F1 hybrid and C. nutans genotypes produced significantly more dry weight than C. acanthoides in all soil treatments. F1 hybrids grew at least as well as the maternal parental species C. nutans and significantly better than C. acanthoides in the presence of intra- and inter-genotypic competitors. The F1 hybrid genotypes formed a more aggressive competitive environment than C. nutans, as evidenced by the growth of all three genotypes. These data primarily supported the model of greater hybrid similarity to one parental species rather than hybrid intermediacy, with evidence of hybrid superiority under certain extreme conditions.

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