Defense Standardization Program journal : for the Defense Standardization Program community.

Title from cover.

Standardization program information booklet : American, British, Canadian, Australian armies.

Mode of access: Internet.

Standardization of availability, location, and use of safety equipment on urban transit buses : final report /

Mode of access: Internet.

Executive summary : 1983 DOD Standardization Conference : reducing acquisition and support costs for the DOD.

Cover title.

Mechanical standardization of the fat content of market milk.

Typescript. "Copy number two."

... Survey report of the Salary standardization board.

Newton J. T. Bigelow, chairman, Philip E. Hagerty, director of research.

Robotics and foreign affairs : a symposium /

Mode of access: Internet.

The consumer and the standardization of farm products.

Mode of access: Internet.

The rural one-teacher schools of Illinois; buildings and equipment, standardization, daily program, demonstration schools ...

Revision of Circular no. 163: Organizing and teaching a one-teacher school. cf. Foreword.

Civil service plan for the County of Milwaukee : including classification and standardization of personal service, civil service rules and regulations and constructive recommendations for positive employment administration.

Mode of access: Internet.

Salary standardization, city of Seattle, Washington.

Cover title.

Agricultural statutes of the state of California, part three, The California fruit, nut and vegetable standardization laws.

Corrected to <1925; 1929; July 1, 1931; Oct. 1, 1949>.

Reagent chemicals and standards, with methods of assaying and testing them; also the preparation and standardization of volumetric solutions and extensive tables of equivalents,

Mode of access: Internet.

Nuclear powerplant standardization : light water reactors.

"April 1981" (v. 1); "June 1981" (v. 2)

Monitoring dendritic cells in clinical practice using a new whole blood single-platform TruCOUNT assay

Dendritic cells (DC) from distinct DC subsets are essential contributors to normal human immune responses. Despite this, reliable assays that enable DC to be counted precisely have been slow to evolve. We have now developed a new single-platform flow cytometric assay based on TruCOUN(TM) beads and the whole blood Lyse/No-Wash protocol that allows precise counting of the CD14(-) blood DC subsets: CD11c(+)CD16(-) DC, CD11c(+)CD16(+) DC, CD123(hi) DC, CD1c(+) DC and BDCA-3(+) DC. This assay requires 50 mul of whole blood; does not rely on a hematology blood analyser for the absolute DC counts; allows DC counting in EDTA samples 24 It after collection; and is suitable for cord blood and peripheral blood. The data is highly reproducible with intra-assay and inter-assay coefficients of variation less than 3% and 11%, respectively. This assay does not produce the DC-T lymphocyte conjugates that result in DC counting abnormalities in conventional gradient-density separation procedures. Using the TruCOUNT assay, we established that absolute blood DC counts reduce with age in healthy individuals. In preliminary studies, we found a significantly lower absolute blood CD11c(+)CD16(+) DC count in stage III/IV versus stage I/II breast carcinoma patients and a lower absolute blood CD123(hi) DC count in multiple myeloma patients, compared to age-matched controls. These data indicate that scientific progress in DC counting technology will lead to the global standardization of DC counting and allow clinically meaningful data to be obtained. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.