Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:26:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T14:00:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / A produção e o fornecimento de animais de laboratório de alta qualidade são de importância fundamental para a realização de pesquisas científicas de vanguarda, com reprodutibilidade e universalidade. Por sua vez, a qualidade desses animais depende, em grande parte, das instalações disponíveis para a sua produção e alojamento, de forma a garantir as condições necessárias ao seu bem-estar e segurança, atendendo aos princípios éticos que regem a atividade. As instalações também têm de preencher outros requisitos, tais como: a funcionalidade dos ambientes, que devem possibilitar o manejo adequado e eficiente dos animais, facilitando a execução das atividades rotineiras; o respeito a princípios ergonômicos, para proporcionar um ambiente seguro e o bem-estar dos operadores. O projeto das instalações é de importância vital para que os requisitos mencionados sejam atingidos. O Biotério do Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) foi projetado no ano de 1964 e as instalações foram planejadas com o objetivo de ser uma unidade de produção e manutenção de animais, contudo, naquela época não havia as recomendações atuais no que diz respeito ao controle sanitário, genético e ambiental. Assim, o desenho original da unidade apresenta uma distribuição de área inadequada, que impossibilita a completa segregação de animais pós-ensaio, colônias de produção e estoque, bem como animais portadores de alterações em seu \"background\" genético. A instalação do biotério ocupa uma área de 840 m2, com um pavimento, onde estão distribuídas as áreas de produção e estoque de modelos animais originários da própria instituição, bem como a manutenção de animais oriundos de outras instituições nacionais e do exterior. O Biotério do IPEN fornece animais para testes biológicos dos lotes de radiofármacos, produzidos na Diretoria de Radiofármacos DIRF - do IPEN, antes de serem enviados aos hospitais e clínicas de todo o Brasil, para utilização na Medicina Nuclear. Fornece também ratos e camundongos para testes de materiais odontológicos, ensaios com hormônios e para pesquisas de novos fármacos e radiofármacos, dentre outros. Muitos dos modelos produzidos no IPEN são únicos no Brasil e constituem-se, portanto, em um importante patrimônio que deve ser preservado. Este trabalho descreve as atividades que vêm sendo executadas atualmente no Biotério do IPEN, englobando o projeto de reforma e a adequação das instalações. / Dissertacao (Mestrado) / IPEN/D / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN/SP

Abstract The aim of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of customer satisfaction surveys and spontaneous customer feedback procedure in a university hospital laboratory. Questionnaires containing closed-ended statements and an open-ended question were used in the customer satisfaction surveys targeted at the clinical units of the university hospital and regional health centres. Customer feedback documents including the subject matters of the reports, the investigations carried out and the actions taken were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The highest dissatisfaction rates in the clinical units were recorded for computerised test requesting and reporting, turnaround times of tests, missing test results and the schedule of phlebotomy rounds. In addition, additional instructions were needed. The most common causes of dissatisfaction among regional health centres were related to electronic data transfer of laboratory test requests and reports between health centres and the university hospital laboratory, need of additional instructions for handling of samples and preparation patients for laboratory tests, problems with decentralised phlebotomy services to hospital outpatients, and unawareness of the schedule of some less common laboratory tests. Further clarifications with selected customers were needed to specify the causes of dissatisfaction. Erroneous, delayed and lacking test results were the most common errors or defects revealed in the investigations of the spontaneous customer feedback reports from both the clinical units and the external customers. The most common underlying causes of errors were unintended errors and non-compliance with operating instructions. Systematic errors were found in one-sixth of the cases. Corrective actions were carried out in three-fourths of the cases. Satisfaction survey can be used as a screening tool to identify topics of dissatisfaction. However, further clarifications are often needed to find out the customer-specific causes of dissatisfaction and to undertake targeted corrective actions. Every reported case of customer feedback should be investigated to find out possible errors and their underlying causes so that appropriate corrective actions can be taken.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (M Eng (Mechanical Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering / unrestricted

Thesis (M. A. (English Studies)) --University of Limpopo, 2020 / Conventional laboratory report writing skills present an enormous challenge to first entering science students including the Bachelor of Science (BSc) students at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMHSU). First entering students are expected to meet essential tertiary discourse requirements and standards consistent with their scientific community. The purpose of this study was to explore how content lecturers in cognate departments assess laboratory report writing skills of first entering BSc students. The research design was exploratory and a mixed approach was used. Students sat for a criterion-referenced test and interviews were conducted with content lecturers to collect data; quantitative basic statistical interrogation of the basic data points and post interview analysis were performed. Some of the key findings of this exploration was that most first entering BSc students are in a dire situation regarding the laboratory report writing genre; they are unable to communicate comprehensive and intelligible information in the written laboratory reports. Thus, content lecturers and English language lecturers from the Department of Language Proficiency (DLP) need to strategically collaborate in order to improve the performance of first entering BSc students.

Submitted to the faculty of the School of Informatics in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Chemical Informatics (Laboratory Informatics Specialization), Indiana University, June 2006 / Industry and academic laboratories have long resisted conversion to electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) while at the same time integrating many other kinds of information systems, most notably laboratory information management systems (LIMS), chromatography data systems (CDS), and scientific data management systems (SDMS), within laboratory operations. Scientists in both academia and industry stand to gain important functionality unavailable with paper notebooks with the adoption of ELNs such as comprehensive searching of notebooks (keyword, result, and molecular structure/substructure searching, for example); distributed availability; and long term access to data. Currently, most laboratory information systems operate independently, requiring manual data entry by users into each individual system. This process creates data and information disparities as well as creating poor referential integrity within experimental metadata. Electronic laboratory notebooks would provide a logical point around which experiment details and observations could be centered electronically. Through an ELN, experimental documentation or metadata could be communicated automatically with a LIMS, SDMS, or CDS without analyst involvement. This “electronically connected” system would allow analysts to perform their responsibilities without the interruption of independent information systems thus increasing analyst productivity and reducing user entry errors into data management systems. The thesis project consisted of two phases: the first phase was the implementation of an ELN and the second phase was the development of a software developer kit (SDK) for LABTrack based on Web Services. In the first phase of the project the adoption of an ELN, was studied within a classroom laboratory (G823 Introduction to Cell Biology) over the course of one academic semester. In the second phase of the project an SDK for LABTrack was developed to allow the importation of information from custom developed applications into LABTrack. Finally, a web portal integrating LABTrack and NuGenesis was developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the LABTrack SDK and existing capabilities of the NuGenesis SDK.

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Kunskaper inom naturvetenskap har stor betydelse för ekonomi, människors liv och hälsa samt inte minst vår miljö. För att erhålla både breda, allmänbildande kunskaper och mer specialiserade, djupa kunskaper behöver barn och ungdomar läsa naturorienterande ämnen redan i grundskolan. För att få elever att intressera sig för naturvetenskap behöver undervisning utformas på ett sätt som väcker elevernas intresse och nyfikenhet. Detta kan bland annat uppnås genom att varva laborationer med teori.Det här examensarbetet är en studie av hur kemilärare ser på laborationer och hur deras syn kan relateras till den nuvarande kursplanen i kemi. Resultatet visar att lärarna värdesätter laborationer, men även hur laborationer inte uppnår erforderlig kvalitet när lärarna saknar förutsättningar, som de uttrycker det, för att genomföra bra laborationer. Vidare framkommer det att lärarna uppfattar det som att kursplanen inte, på samma sätt som tidigare, tar fasta på laborationers betydelse för att uppnå undervisningsmålen.Studien underbyggs av kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta högstadielärare på två skolor i Stockholms län. / Natural science is of great importance to economics, people's lives and health as well as our environment. In order to obtain both broad, general knowledge and specialized, deep knowledge, students need to study science already in primary school. In order to make students more interested in science, teaching needs to be designed in a way that arouses students' curiosity. This can be achieved, for example, by finding a good mix between practical laboratory work and theoretical sessions.This is a study of how chemistry teachers view laboratory teaching and how their view can be related to the current syllabus in chemistry. The result shows that teachers value laboratory work, but also how laboratory work does not achieve the necessary quality when teachers lack the conditions, as they perceive it, to carry out good laboratory work. In addition, it shows that teachers think that the syllabus does not attach the same level of importance as before to laboratory exercises to achieve the teaching objectives.The study is based on qualitative interviews with eight science teachers at high school level in Stockholm County.

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