Refinement of experimental design and conduct in laboratory animal research.

The scientific literature of laboratory animal research is replete with papers reporting poor reproducibility of results as well as failure to translate results to clinical trials in humans. This may stem in part from poor experimental design and conduct of animal experiments. Despite widespread recognition of these problems and implementation of guidelines to attenuate them, a review of the literature suggests that experimental design and conduct of laboratory animal research are still in need of refinement. This paper will review and discuss possible sources of biases, highlight advantages and limitations of strategies proposed to alleviate them, and provide a conceptual framework for improving the reproducibility of laboratory animal research.

Routines in precision agriculture technology: an action research study

A crop management and precision agriculture software application facilitates the flow of information between disparate software/equipment and the network of individuals that work with them. A new generation of farmers are using precision technology to help them more efficiently manage their roplands. By measuring precisely the way their fields reflect and emit energy at visible and infrared wavelengths, precision farmers can monitor a wide range of variables that affect their crops,such as soil moisture, surface temperature, photosynthetic activity, and weed or pest infestations. Over thirty years have passed since Nelson and Winter put the concept of routines firmly at the center of the analysis of organizational and economic change. Taken as the central unit of analysis, routines would help understand energy and agriculture economy evolution.

Equatorial Pacific Ocean climate studies (EPOCS) : progress and plans.

"October 1985".

Investigation of petroleum in the marine environs of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and northern Puget Sound /

Mode of access: Internet.

Cardiovascular instrumentation : proceedings of the Working Conference on Applicability of New Technology to Biobehavioral Research, May 16-19, 1982, Houston, Texas /

"March 1984."

Monthly abstract bulletin from the Kodak Research Laboratories.

Mode of access: Internet.

Descriptive catalogue of the exhibit of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories at the International Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 : exhibit no. 15. British Chemical Section. Liberal Arts Building.

Key plan to exhibit on inside of front cover.

Second report of the Wellcome research laboratories at the Gordon memorial college, Khartoum.

Mode of access: Internet.

IFYGL rawinsonde system : description of archived data /

Mode of access: Internet.

Aircraft hazard assessment from a clear-air radar and meteorological tower study of gravity wave events /

"June 1983."

Analysis of some cloud and frontal events : recorded during the Boulder Upslope Cloud Observation Experiment (BUCOE) of 1982 /

"March 1984."

The TRAPS sonic boom program /

Sonic boom FORTRAN listings on microfiche inside back cover.

Workbook for estimating the climatology of regional-continental scale atmospheric dispersion and deposition over the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.