Proven and tested guidelines for designing ideal labs for scientific investigations

Now in its "Fourth Edition, Guidelines for Laboratory Design "continues to enable readers to design labs that make it possible to conduct scientific investigations in a safe and healthy environment. The book brings together all the professionals who are critical to a successful lab design, discussing the roles of architects, engineers, health and safety professionals, and laboratory researchers. It provides the design team with the information needed to ask the right questions and then determine the best design, while complying with current regulations and best practices.

"Guidelines for Laboratory Design" features concise, straightforward advice organized in an easy-to-use format that facilitates the design of safe, efficient laboratories. Divided into five sections, the book records some of the most important discoveries and achievements in: Part IA, Common Elements of Laboratory Design, sets forth technical specifications that apply to most laboratory buildings and modulesPart IB, Common Elements of Renovations, offers general design principles for the renovation and modernization of existing labsPart II, Design Guidelines for a Number of Commonly Used Laboratories, explains specifications, best practices, and guidelines for nineteen types of laboratories, with three new chapters covering nanotechnology, engineering, and autopsy labsPart III, Laboratory Support Services, addresses design issues for imaging facilities, support shops, hazardous waste facilities, and laboratory storeroomsPart IV, HVAC Systems, explains how to heat, cool, and ventilate labs with an eye towards energy conservationPart V, Administrative Procedures, deals with bidding procedures, final acceptance inspections, and sustainability

The final part of the book features five appendices filled with commonly needed data and reference materials.

This "Fourth Edition" is indispensable for all laboratory design teams, whether constructing a new laboratory or renovating an old facility to meet new objectives.

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Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged, and the meaning of commitment to experimentation altered. In About Method, Schickore captures this complex trajectory of change from 1660 to the twentieth century through the history of snake venom research. As experiments with poisonous snakes and venom were both challenging and controversial, the experimenters produced very detailed accounts of their investigations, which go back three hundred years-making venom research uniquely suited for such a long-term study. By analyzing key episodes in the transformation of venom research, Schickore is able to draw out the factors that have shaped methods discourse in science. About Method shows that methodological advancement throughout history has not been simply a steady progression toward better, more sophisticated and improved methodologies of experimentation. Rather, it was a progression in awareness of the obstacles and limitations that scientists face in developing strategies to probe the myriad unknown complexities of nature. The first long-term history of this development and of snake venom research, About Method offers a major contribution to integrated history and philosophy of science.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of validated numerics, an emerging new field that combines the strengths of scientific computing and pure mathematics. In numerous fields ranging from pharmaceutics and engineering to weather prediction and robotics, fast and precise computations are essential. Based on the theory of set-valued analysis, a new suite of numerical methods is developed, producing efficient and reliable solvers for numerous problems in nonlinear analysis. Validated numerics yields rigorous computations that can find all possible solutions to a problem while taking into account all possible sources of error--fast, and with guaranteed accuracy.

"Validated Numerics" offers a self-contained primer on the subject, guiding readers from the basics to more advanced concepts and techniques. This book is an essential resource for those entering this fast-developing field, and it is also the ideal textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates needing an accessible introduction to the subject. "Validated Numerics" features many examples, exercises, and computer labs using MATLAB/C++, as well as detailed appendixes and an extensive bibliography for further reading.Provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to validated numerics Requires no advanced mathematics or programming skills Features many examples, exercises, and computer labs Includes code snippets that illustrate implementation Suitable as a textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates

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What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? Don Glass and experts in their fields answer these questions and many more. Written for readers of all ages with no background in science required, How the World Looks to a Bee is the perfect armchair companion for curious people who want to know more about the science of everyday life but have only a moment to spare. With intriguing everyday phenomena as a starting point, this entertaining collection uses short tutorials and quick and simple experiments to invite readers to test the science for themselves. These fascinating and topical science stories are sure to delight the curious child in all of us.

2. ERFOLGREICHES SUCHEN IN DATENBANKEN 2. 1. Suchstrategien 3 2. 2. Suchbeispiele 8 2. 2. 1. LITERA TURDA TENBANKEN 9 2. 2. 1. 1. Medline 37 2. 2. 1. 2. Science Citation Index 42 2. 2. 1. 3. Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2. 2. 1. 4. VLB (=Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bucher) 44 2. 2. 2. FAKTENDATENBANKEN 49 2. 2. 2. 1. Drug Information Fulltext 61 2. 2. 2. 2. Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs 2. 2. 2. 3. Physician Data Query (PDQ) 70 87 2. 2. 2. 4. EMBL -Datenbanken 3. BIBLIOTHEKSKATALOGE 3. 1. Kataloge amerikanischer Bibliotheken 97 3. 2. Kataloge deutscher Bibliotheken 102 3. 3. Kataloge osterreichischer Bibliotheken 105 4. GALE DIRECTORY OF DA TABASES - DIE "DATENBANK DER DATENBANKEN" 110 5. ORIGINALLITERATUR INNERHALB VON 24 STUNDEN Zentralbibliothek der Medizin (KOIn) 113 6. MEDIZINISCHE DATENBANKEN 6. 1. A bledata 115 6. 2. Acubase 115 6. 3. Aesculapis Project -WHO 115 6. 4. Ageline 115 6. 5. AIDS -Database 116 6. 6. AIDS Information and Education Worldwide 116 116 6. 7. AIDSLINE 6. 8. A IDS-Newsletter-BHTD 117 VI I nhaltsverzeichnis 6. 9. AIDS-Supplement 117 6. 10. Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database 117 6. 11. Alcohol Information for Clinicians and Educators Database 118 6. 12. Allied & Alternative Medicine 118 6. 13. American Journal of Diseases of Children 118 6. 14. American Medical Association Journals Online 119 6. 15. AMIA Communications Network 119 6. 16. Anatomist 119 6. 17. Arzte Zeitung 120 6. 18. Bacteriology Abstracts 120 6. 19.

This bestselling DIY handbook now features new and expanded projects, enabling ordinary folks to construct 16 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple match-powered rocket to the more complex tabletop catapult and the offbeat Cincinnati fire kite. The classic potato cannon has a new evil twin--the piezo-electric spud gun and the electromagnetic pipe gun has joined the company of such favorites as the tennis ball mortar. With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind the projects, and profiles scientists and extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel, Robert Goddard, and Isaac Newton. This book will be indispensable for the legions of backyard toy-rocket launchers and fireworks fanatics who wish every day was the fourth of July.

Die Proceedings der 35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Medizinische Dokumentation, Informatik und Statistik geben einen UEberblick uber die derzeit wichtigen Forschungsschwerpunkte der Epidemiologie. Dabei konnten zum ersten Mal auch Beitrage aus der ehemaligen DDR in groesserer Zahl eingebracht werden. Schwerpunkte des Proceedingsbandes bilden die Epidemiologie kardiovaskularer Erkrankungen, die Umweltepidemiologie, die Epidemiologie von Berufskrankheiten und das epidemiologische Monitoring von Krebserkrankungen und Infektionskrankheiten. Die Qualitat verfugbarer Datenquellen wird kritisch diskutiert und die Bedeutung der Epidemiologie fur eine Verbesserung der Gesundheitsberichterstattung in den alten und in den neuen Bundeslandern klargelegt. Daruber hinaus werden methodische Probleme und unterstutzende Techniken der Medizinischen Informatik angesprochen.

Der Proceedingsband enth{lt ausgew{hlte ausgew{hlte refe- rierte Aufs{tze sowohl zu innovativen Entwicklungen in den Disziplinen Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik als auch }ber den Einsatz bekannter, bew{hrter Konzepte aus diesen Fachbereichen in der Medizin. Behandelt werden spezielle Fragestellungen zu den Themen Epidemiologie, methodische Therapieforschung, Nachweis therapeutischer Oquivalenz, Dia- gnostik und Monitoring von Krankheitsprozessen, Modellierung biologischer Mechanismen, biometrische Methoden, medizini- sche Dokumentation, L-sungsans{tze f}r Informationssysteme, spezielle Hard- und Softwarel-sungen, Expertensysteme, Bild- kommunikation und Archivierung, Bilderzeugung, wissensba- sierte Bildinterpretation und 3-d Darstellungsverfahren.

Written for animal researchers, this book provides a comprehensive guide to the design and statistical analysis of animal experiments. It has long been recognised that the proper implementation of these techniques helps reduce the number of animals needed. By using real-life examples to make them more accessible, this book explains the statistical tools employed by practitioners. A wide range of design types are considered, including block, factorial, nested, cross-over, dose-escalation and repeated measures and techniques are introduced to analyse the experimental data generated. Each analysis technique is described in non-mathematical terms, helping readers without a statistical background to understand key techniques such as t-tests, ANOVA, repeated measures, analysis of covariance, multiple comparison tests, non-parametric and survival analysis. This is also the first text to describe technical aspects of InVivoStat, a powerful open-source software package developed by the authors to enable animal researchers to analyse their data and obtain informative results.

The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different hypotheses? How do we deal with time series (in which data are linked from one measurement to the next) or put multiple sources of data into one inferential framework? These are the kinds of questions asked and answered by "The Ecological Detective."

Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel investigate ecological data much as a detective would investigate a crime scene by trying different hypotheses until a coherent picture emerges. The book is not a set of pat statistical procedures but rather an approach. The Ecological Detective makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models. The authors' attitude is one of exploration, both statistical and graphical. The background required is minimal, so that students with an undergraduate course in statistics and ecology can profitably add this work to their tool-kit for solving ecological problems.

Gottingen ist mit den Aufgaben und Zielen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fUr Medizinische Dokumentation, Informatik und Statistik (GMDS) nicht nur durch die yom 3. - 5. Oktober 1977 stattgefundene 22. Jahrestagung verbunden. Schon durch den Mathematiker Felix B ern s t e i n, dem anlaBlich seines 100. Geburtstages eine Diplomarbeit aus dem Mathe- matisch-Statistischen Institut der Universitat Gotting n gewidmet worden ist, wurden bereits vor dem ersten Weltkrieg und in den darauf- folgenden Jahren grundlegende mathematisch-statistische Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet des Versicherungswesens und der Humangenetik durchgefUhrt. Nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg hat H 0 s e man n in Gottingen die Ver- fahren der maschinellen Lochkartendokumentation zur Datensammlung als Grundlage statistischer Verfahren fUr die Universitats-Frauenklinik eingesetzt. Ein Teil seiner Entwicklungen, besonders auf dem Gebiet der Erfassung und Standardisierung der gynakologischen Karzinome werden heute noch verwendet. Ende 1952 und 1954 war Gottingen Tagungsort der Untergruppe Medizin der Deutschen Gesellschaft fUr Dokumentation (DGD) und nach GrUndung des "ArbeitsausschuB Medizin" in der DGD, dem direkten Vorlaufer unserer Gesellschaft, wurde die e r s t e Jahrestagung in Gottingen mit dem Thema: "Lochkarten und Randlochkarten im klinischen Gebrauch" durchgefUhrt.

The book is a guide to the practical application of statistics in data analysis typically encountered in the physical sciences. Students and researchers who work with experimental data will find this a valuable text. The topics include probability, random variables, Monte Carlo techniques, statistical tests, parameter estimation, and unfolding methods.