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Recommended Immunological Assays to Screen for Ricin-Containing Samples

Toxins, 2015
Ricin, a toxin from the plant Ricinus communis, is one of the most toxic biological agents known. Due to its availability, toxicity, ease of production and absence of curative treatments, ricin has been classified by the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Stéphanie Simon, Sylvia Worbs, Marc-André Avondet, Dobryan M. Tracz, Julie Dano, Lisa Schmidt, Hervé Volland, Brigitte G. Dorner, Cindi R. Corbett   +8 more
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The SLS-Berlin: Validation of a German Computer-Based Screening Test to Measure Reading Proficiency in Early and Late Adulthood [PDF]

, 2019
Reading proficiency, i.e., successfully integrating early word-based information and utilizing this information in later processes of sentence and text comprehension, and its assessment is subject to extensive research.
Froehlich, Eva, Hutzler, Florian, Jacobs, Arthur M., Lüdtke, Jana   +3 more
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Recommended Immunological Strategies to Screen for Botulinum Neurotoxin-Containing Samples

Toxins, 2015
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) cause the life-threatening neurological illness botulism in humans and animals and are divided into seven serotypes (BoNT/A–G), of which serotypes A, B, E, and F cause the disease in humans. BoNTs are classified as “category
Stéphanie Simon, Uwe Fiebig, Yvonne Liu, Rob Tierney, Julie Dano, Sylvia Worbs, Tanja Endermann, Marie-Claire Nevers, Hervé Volland, Dorothea Sesardic, Martin B. Dorner   +10 more
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Statistical Evaluation of Barkhausen Noise Testing (BNT) for Ground Samples

Sensors, 2019
Barkhausen noise testing (BNT) is a nondestructive method for investigating many properties of ferromagnetic materials. The most common application is the monitoring of grinding burns caused by introducing locally high temperatures while grinding.
Robert Tomkowski, Aki Sorsa, Suvi Santa-aho, Per Lundin, Minnamari Vippola   +4 more
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Sample preparation and analysis of proficiency test containing Staphylococcus aureus with drug matrix

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo prepare samples of proficiency testing （PT） containing live Staphylococcus aureus with drug matrix in microbial PT program of drug testing， and to evaluate the laboratory capability of microbiology tests in China.MethodsTwo kinds of PT ...
FAN Yiling, LI Fang, YANG Yan, QIN Feng, LIU Hao, YANG Meicheng   +5 more
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MI as a predictor of students’ performance in reading competency [PDF]

, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine whether performance in MI could predict the performance in reading competency. The other objectives were to identify the components of MI which are correlated with the reading test scores, and to determine the ...
Hajhashemi, Karim, Wong, Bee Eng
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Proficiency Testing of Metagenomics-Based Detection of Food-Borne Pathogens Using a Complex Artificial Sequencing Dataset

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Metagenomics-based high-throughput sequencing (HTS) enables comprehensive detection of all species comprised in a sample with a single assay and is becoming a standard method for outbreak investigation. However, unlike real-time PCR or serological assays,
Dirk Höper, Josephine Grützke, Annika Brinkmann, Joël Mossong, Sébastien Matamoros, Richard J. Ellis, Carlus Deneke, Simon H. Tausch, Isabel Cuesta, Sara Monzón, Miguel Juliá, Thomas Nordahl Petersen, Rene S. Hendriksen, Sünje J. Pamp, Mikael Leijon, Mikhayil Hakhverdyan, Aaron M. Walsh, Paul D. Cotter, Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, Moon Y. F. Tay, Joergen Schlundt, Claudia Sala, Alessandra De Cesare, Andreas Nitsche, Martin Beer, Claudia Wylezich   +25 more
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On the Construct Validity of the Iranian Ministry of Health Language Exam (MHLE) [PDF]

Journal of Language Horizons, 2020
Considering validity as a unitary concept, this study investigated the construct validity of the Iranian Ministry of Health Language Exam (MHLE). To meet this objective, we first conducted item analysis and reliability analysis, and verified KR20-if-item-
S. Susan Marandi, Leila Tajik, Leila Zohali   +2 more
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Exploring the diagnostic accuracy of the KidFit screening tool for identifying children with health and motor performance-related fitness impairments: A feasibility study [PDF]

, 2020
Child obesity is associated with poor health and reduced motor skills. This study aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the KidFit Screening Tool for identifying children with overweight/obesity, reduced motor skills and reduced cardiorespiratory ...
Hing, Wayne, Leong, Gary M., Milne, Nikki   +2 more
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GENDER ISSUE IN TOEFL TEST: DOES IT MAKE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE?

Journal of English Teaching and Linguistics, 2020
Gender issue has been noted as a debatable issue over decades in second language learning, including in TOEFL test which is recognized throughout the world as a certified foreign language test.
Ida Muliawati
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