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... references and index ISBN 0-8036-1055-6 (pbk.) Diagnosis, Laboratory —Handbooks, manuals, etc Nursing -Handbook, manuals, etc I Watson, Juanita, 1946– Nurse s manual of laboratory and diagnostic tests ... 14 Analysis of Cells and Tissues 332 CHAPTER 15 Culture and Sensitivity Tests 352 SECTION II • Diagnostic Tests and Procedures, 361 CHAPTER 16 Endoscopic Studies ... arthritis, drug reactions, vasculitis, myositis) Folic acid deficiency Tissue necrosis (burns, crushing injuries, abscesses Acromegaly Malignancies Addison s disease Metabolic disorders (uremia, eclampsia,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... pituitary gland senses the low serum cortisol levels and, as a result, increases its release of ACTH This is an attempt to stimulate the adrenal gland to increase its production of cortisol Thus, the ... to laboratory and diagnostic testing are discussed Additional discussion focuses on communication of test results in light of HIPAA regulations • Appendix D discusses safety of the health-care ... may falsely increase test results Drugs that may increase serum amylase levels: acetaminophen, antibiotics, aspirin, corticosteroids, estrogens, furosemide, NSAIDs, prednisone, salicylates, and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2016, 18:18

... blood and tissue of a person Laboratory and diagnostic studies augment the health care provider s assessment of the quality of an individual s physical being Test results guide the plans and interventions ... carcinoma of the prostate and diagnosis of metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate ■ INDICATIONS: • Assist in the investigation of sexual assault and rape • Assist with differential diagnosis of other ... musculoskeletal system and results of previously performed tests and procedures For related tests, refer to the hepatobiliary and musculoskeletal system tables ➤ Obtain a list of the medications the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... pp37, 54 Coma The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to assess level of consciousness Minimum score is 3, maximum 15 Assess level of consciousness and determine whether this is stable, fluctuating, ... abbreviations RIF RIPA RNP RPGN RT-PCR RUQ s SAECG SAH SC SCA SCD SDH SHBG SLE SmIg SOB SOL SM SPECT stat STEMI sTfR SVC SVCO SXR T° t1/2 T4 TA TB tds TdT TENS TFT TIAs TIBC TN TNF right iliac fossa ristocetin-induced ... risk factors for blood loss and increased demands Premenopausal women—assess menstrual losses Pregnancy/infants/adolescence consider physiological (4 requirements) All others: look for source of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 11:20

... s 04 s 05 s 10 s s 10 s 100 s ms n log2 n 03 s 09 s 15 s 21 s 28 s 66 s 9.96 s 130 s 1.66 ms 19.92 ms n2 s s s 1.6 s 2.5 s 10 s ms 100 ms 10 s 16.67 m n3 s s 27 s 64 s ... diagrams and TPR trees for indexing moving points Dr Mehta is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I Sartaj Sahni Sartaj Sahni is a Distinguished Professor ... an unsuccessful search, the number of comparisons is n For successful searches the best comparison count is 1, and the worst is n For the average count assume that all array elements are distinct...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 09:45

... RMS* Values and Scale Dependence A rough surface is often assumed to be a statistically stationary random process (Papoulis, 1965) This means that the measured roughness sample is a true statistical ... controls the absolute amplitude of the roughness over all length scales The concept of roughness and smoothness, as discussed in Section 4.2.1, becomes quite ambiguous under these conditions Should ... be used to study the statistical properties of rough surfaces This is due to its simplicity of use and the roughness information it reveals at different length scales 4.3.3.3 Roughness Measurements...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 09:15

... Typical rms Roughness and Coefficients of Microscale and Macroscale Friction Values of Various Samples Sample Si(100) SiO2/Si C18 single-grafted/SiO2/Si C18 double-grafted/SiO2/Si Au/Si ODT/Au/Si ZnA/ODT/Au/Si ... silicon samples Wear resistance of the Z-15-lubricated sample is little better than that of the unlubricated sample The Z-15-lubricated sample shows debris inside the wear track Since Z-15 is ... gets worn and the silicon underneath is exposed In the case of the Z-Dol-coated silicon sample, the friction force starts out to be low and remains low during the 100-cycles test It suggests that...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 09:15

... forces in roughness measurements for improved lateral resolution and to measure roughness of soft surfaces without small-scale plowing For roughness and friction measurements, the samples are ... D is the separation distance by the surface roughness of the means of the tip and the sample surfaces, γt and γd are the surface energies of the tip and sample surfaces, and D0 ~ 0.2 nm (Israelachvili, ... the size of asperities This is valid since the typical radius of curvature of the tips is about 30 nm The radius of curvature of the asperities of the samples measured here (the asperities that...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 09:15

... devices Potential applications of MEMS devices include silicon-based acceleration sensors for anti-skid braking systems and four-wheel drives, silicon-based pressure sensors for monitoring pressure ... process and is routinely used to fabricate microstructures such as acceleration and pressure sensors and magnetic head sliders Surface micromachining is based on depositing and etching structural ... solar cells SiC has also been used in microstructures such as speaker diaphragms and X-ray masks For a summary of SiC devices and applications, see Harris (1995) Table 16.1 compares selected bulk...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 12:15

... priori; and its synthesis of intuitions, conforming as it does to the categories, must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; ... Hegel s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness, where he develops a conception of Hegel s view of agency that also draws on Sellarsian notions (which form the core of Brandom s later ... in Hegel s diagnosis, modern post-Cartesian skepticism arises out of taking that “whole” and treating its constituents only as parts, as (in Hegel s sense) independent, “finite” pieces of knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... materials systems, and the plots of Figures 5.9 and 5.10 show how even completely elastic systems give rise to adhesion hysteresis and therefore energy dissipation This may be a useful way of understanding ... cantilever is assumed to act as a spring, with an effective mass of m* Its position is represented by d, its damping by βc , and its spring constant by kc The distance [z – d] represents the separation ... Adhesion Hysteresis in Elastic Continuum Contact Mechanics The work of adhesion must be distinguished from adhesion which must be distinguished from adhesion hysteresis The work of adhesion is...

Ngày tải lên: 09/11/2013, 03:15

... clouds of atoms This equation is essentially the osmotic or entropic pressure of a gas of confined molecules As one surface moves across the other, as local regions become compressed and decompressed ... ratio of the collision time between masses and to the harmonic oscillating frequency of masses and (C) The energy transferred from mass to the rest of the system (masses and 3) is plotted as a ... oscillatory solvation forces The simplest systems so far investigated have involved measurements of these forces between molecularly smooth surfaces in organic liquids Subsequent measurements of oscillatory...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 11:15

... Business Skills Do 's and Don'ts for More Professional Speaking and Writing Tips and tricks gleaned from UGA s Foundations of Leadership and Management Program Business Skills Quiz Sixty-seven ... percent of first impressions are true > true > false A firm handshake is only offered to a businessman, not a business woman > true > false How long should a business sentence and business paragraph ... outline, using the fewest words possible Notes in paragraph forms It is not necessary to prepare notes prior to speaking Business Skills Quiz What does a speaker with his/her hands for the most energy...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 23:15

... modulus of elasticity and ν Poisson s ratio In the case of SFM and SFFM, the sample is assumed flat and the tip of radius Rtip, and correspondingly R* = Rtip Due to the elastic deformation, distant ... practical issues such as the prediction of seasons, tides, or possible floods By contrast, the interest in tribology is purlye practical: to move mechanical pieces past each other as easily as possible ... experiments where a thin film is adsorbed on a moving substrate As will be discussed in more detail, the essential physics of the SFFM and the quartz microbalance is similar, although the pressures and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 23:18

... the shallowness of the indent impressions, SEM results in poor contrast A method consists of making two-stage carbon replicas of indentations in a soft material and imaging them in the transmission ... increase in stiffness is sensed, and when the stiffness increases by a factor of 4, the approach phase of the indentation process is complete The computer now discards all but the last 50 sets of load–displacement ... Materials Load–Displacement Curves • Continuous Stiffness Measurements • Hardness and Elastic Modulus Measurements 10.5 10.6 Microscratch Resistance Measurement of Bulk Materials Using Micro/Nanoscratch...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 23:18

... According to some estimates, over 3000 users of SPMs exist with $400 million in support It is clear that research and industrial applications of SPMs are rapidly expanding STMs, AFMs, and their ... normal spring constant by measuring resonant frequencies of the beams For normal spring constant measurement, we used a stainless steel spring sheet of known stiffness (width = 1.35 mm, thickness ... is less than that of bulk Si3N4 (310 GPa) Furthermore, the thickness of the beam is nonuniform and difficult to measure precisely Because the stiffness of a beam goes as the cube of thickness,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2014, 04:20

... unit is of the size of several centimeters, microscope designers preferred to scan the sample instead of the sensor Figure 2.23 shows an example of such a microscope It consists of two parts, the ... available and the sensors (tips) in use To utilize a microscope to its fullest, it is necessary to know how it works and where its strong points and its weaknesses are This chapter describes the instrumentation ... Linearization Strategies • Alternative Scanning Systems • Control Systems 2.9 AFMs Special Design Considerations • Classical Setup • StandAlone Setup • Data Acquisition • Typical Setups • Data Representation...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 14:20

... resolution The surface sensitivity of XPS is similar to AES because the energies of the emitted electrons are similar Figure 3.23 shows some examples of oxygen and sulfur peak shifts resulting from ... Alloys,” Phys Rev B 48, 18284–18287 Hantsche, H (1989), “Comparison of Basic Principles of the Surface-Specific Analytical Methods: AES/SAM, ESCA(XPS), SIMS, and ISS with X-ray Microanalysis, and Some ... energy dissipation He represents the atoms in the solids as connected by springs, thus enabling an energy dissipation mechanism by way of lattice vibrations He also looks at such issues as the energy...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 14:20

... 7.12 shows the plot of hardness and Young s modulus of elasticity as a function of residual depth Note that hardness increases with a decrease in the residual depth Similar results on single-crystal ... phase Table 7.1 summarizes the hardness and Young s modulus of eleasticity data at various depths for singlecrystal silicon (Bhushan et al., 1996) Comparison of nanohardness values with that of ... Press LLC 7.6 Closure AFM with suitable diamond tips has been used successfully to measure microscratching/microwear and nano/picoindentation behavior of solid surfaces and thin films AFM has also...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 14:20

... can result in meaningless results Because of this danger, a thorough understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of MD simulations is crucial to both successfully implementing this method and ... way, and is providing unique new insights into recent observations made by instruments such as the SFA Section 11.5 discusses simulations of the tribological properties of solid surfaces Some of ... the systems discussed are sliding diamond interfaces, Langmuir–Blodgett films, self-assembled monolayers, and metals The details of several unique mechanisms of energy dissipation are discussed,...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 14:20