THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE L.E. CELL TEST

1957 ◽  
Vol 1 (26) ◽  
pp. 905-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Cowling ◽  
I. D. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Cell Test

LE cell test and antinuclear antibodies

JAMA ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 200 (12) ◽  
pp. 1053-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Dubois
Keyword(s):  
Antinuclear Antibodies ◽  
Cell Test

Comparison of the Bidirectional Load Test with the Top-Down Load Test

2005 ◽  
Vol 1936 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oh Sung Kwon ◽  
Yongkyu Choi ◽  
Ohkyun Kwon ◽  
Myoung Mo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Load Transfer ◽  
Measurement Data ◽  
Load Test ◽  
Load Testing ◽  
Pile Head ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
Testing Method ◽  
Settlement Behavior ◽  
Cell Test

For the past decade, the Osterberg testing method (O-cell test) has been proved advantageous over the conventional pile load testing method in many aspects. However, because the O-cell test uses a loading mechanism entirely different from that of the conventional pile loading testing method, many investigators and practicing engineers have been concerned that the O-cell test would give inaccurate results, especially about the pile head settlement behavior. Therefore, a bidirectional load test using the Osterberg method and the conventional top-down load test were executed on 1.5-m diameter cast-in-place concrete piles at the same time and site. Strain gauges were placed on the piles. The two tests gave similar load transfer curves at various depth of piles. However, the top-down equivalent curve constructed from the bidirectional load test results predicted the pile head settlement under the pile design load to be approximately one half of that predicted by the conventional top-down load test. To improve the prediction accuracy of the top-down equivalent curve, a simple method that accounts for the pile compression was proposed. It was also shown that the strain gauge measurement data from the bidirectional load test could reproduce almost the same top-down curve.

Photovoltaic Cell Test System Based on Dual-Core Processors

2011 ◽  
Vol 121-126 ◽  
pp. 4229-4233
Author(s):  
Ping Chuan Zhang ◽  
Yun Long Kong ◽  
Hang Sen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Fill Factor ◽  
Photovoltaic Cells ◽  
Photovoltaic Cell ◽  
Test System ◽  
Photoelectric Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Photoelectric Conversion ◽  
Data Processing Center ◽  
Cell Test ◽  
Dual Core

This paper design an intelligent photovoltaic cell test system. The high performance dual-core 16bits SPCE061A microprocessors are used as control and data processing center. The powerful data operation ability of SPCE061A makes it to carry out software filter for measured data and enhances testing precision. the experiments demonstrated the test system can measure the characteristic parameters of photovoltaic cells: open voltage, current, the fill factor and photoelectric conversion efficiency, draw photovoltaic cells I-V curve, find the best working points , and also have the characteristics of miniaturization and intelligent.

scholarly journals Shortening and Improving the Embryonic Stem Cell Test through the Use of Gene Biomarkers of Differentiation

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Romero ◽  
Eugenio Vilanova ◽  
Miguel A. Sogorb
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Cell Viability ◽  
Embryonic Stem Cell ◽  
Total Duration ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
End Points ◽  
Cell Test

The embryonic Stem cell Test (EST) is a validated assay for testing embryotoxicityin vitro. The total duration of this protocol is 10 days, and its main end-point is based on histological determinations. It is suggested that improvements on EST must be focused toward molecular end-points and, if possible, to reduce the total assay duration. Five days of exposure of D3 cells in monolayers under spontaneous differentiation to 50 ng/mL of the strong embryotoxic 5-fluorouracil or to 75 μg/mL of the weak embryotoxic 5,5-diphenylhydeantoin caused between 20 and 74% of reductions in the expression of the following genes:Pnpla6,Afp,Hdac7,Vegfa, andNes. The exposure to 1 mg/mL of nonembryotoxic saccharin only caused statistically significant reductions in the expression ofNes. These exposures reduced cell viability of D3 cells by 15, 28, and 34%. We applied these records to the mathematical discriminating function of the EST method to find that this approach is able to correctly predict the embryotoxicity of all three above-mentioned chemicals. Therefore, this work proposes the possibility of improve EST by reducing its total duration and by introducing gene expression as biomarker of differentiation, which might be very interesting forin vitrorisk assessment embryotoxicity.

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