Publicaties

Service life prediction is an important topic in wood research, especially with regard to the Construction Products Regulation (CPR). Both laboratory tests as well as in-service performance testing are therefore essential in combination with proper monitoring and analysis tools. A crucial concept is variability in testing and analysis, especially for a biological material such as wood. The larger the sample size the more representative this is ...

OBJECTIVE: To collate all available evidence on the diagnostic value of laboratory tests for the diagnosis of serious infections in febrile children in ambulatory settings. DESIGN: Systematic review. DATA SOURCES: Electronic databases, reference tracking, and consultation with experts. STUDY SELECTION: Studies were selected on six criteria: design (studies of diagnostic accuracy or deriving prediction rules), participants (otherwise healthy ...

To identify which laboratory tests that change over time are most valuable for the timely diagnosis of macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) complicating systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA).

The present paper is split into two parts: Part 1 is about laboratory tests whereas the second part deals with experiments on real bridges. This article aims at summarizing several experimental dynamic testing methods with different damage indicators to evaluate the state of prestressed as well as of passively reinforced concrete structures. First the differences between prestressed and passively reinforced concrete are repeated for static ...

The clinical and health economic value of clinical laboratory diagnostics has been debated increasingly in recent years without resulting in practical recommendations for measuring the effectiveness of diagnostic tests. One way to achieve such a goal could be to enrich the mere data of laboratory test results with additional information about their likelihood ratios for diagnosis. The diagnostic significance of test results can be judged ...

In 2010, several European countries (Germany, Britain and the Netherlands), published a new or a revised design guideline for the design of piled embankments. France will follow in 2012. Both the Dutch (CUR226) and the German design guideline (EBGEO chapter 9) based their design calculations (for the vertical load) for the geosynthetic reinforcement on Zaeske’s model (2001). This model consists of two calculation steps: (1) the load distribution ...

Background: Long-term stability of analytical performance is required for adequate patient management. We investigated the use of patient data to document test stability, and the relevance of observed instabilities on a surrogate medical outcome. We used multiyear patient and internal quality control (IQC) data from two laboratories for tests to monitor chronic kidney and thyroid disease. Methods: We plotted moving means of the 50th percentiles ...

Long-term stability of analytical performance is required for adequate patient management. We investigated the use of patient data to document test stability, and the relevance of observed instabilities on a surrogate medical outcome. We used multiyear patient and internal quality control (IQC) data from two laboratories for tests to monitor chronic kidney and thyroid disease. Methods: We plotted moving means of the 50th percentiles of ...

The development of alternative details to manage water intrusion at the window-wall interface has produced a number of novel approaches to detailing the interface between the window and adjacent wall assembly. Many of these approaches advocate the need to provide drainage at the rough opening of the window subsill given that the window components themselves are susceptible to water entry over their expected life. Depending on the types of ...