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Clinical Laboratory Testing Volume 1: Reagents and Instruments Clinical laboratory analysis for in vitro diagnostic (IVD) testing is one of the most important sectors of medical care. By all accounts, it is very mature, large and diverse--crossing the $39 billion mark in 2008--and employing over 100,000 laboratory workers, and spawning an industry for reagents and instruments comprised of thousands of companies worldwide. The term clinical laboratory analysis usually refers to determining the concentration or activity of a protein, carbohydrate, lipid, electrolyte, enzyme or small molecule in easily collected body fluids such as blood, serum, plasma or urine. However, it is not necessarily limited to these determinations. The purpose of this TriMark Publications report is to describe the specific segments of the global clinical laboratory instrumentation and reagent market. Within this area, the report covers those segments that are highly active in terms of innovation and growth. Specifically, this global clinical laboratory markets report examines the markets for small lab equipment all the way up to highly-automated, large lab platforms, as well as accessory equipment such as reagents, supplies and manufacturers’ original equipment manufacturer (OEM) additional equipment. The emphasis in this analysis is on those companies and products that are actively developing and marketing laboratory analyzer products for the clinical setting, including hospitals, independent labs, physician’s offices and miscellaneous clinics. This study concentrates on the clinical laboratory instrumentation industry market segment and the companion reagents sector in the U.S. and around the world. The regional markets and their differences are examined, including Europe, Asia (Japan, China and India) and the rest of the world (ROW). Particular attention is paid to those areas of the clinical laboratory instrumentation and reagents sector that are showing the greatest growth or the most innovation.Published By: TriMark Publications
Date Published: Jan 2010 * * * * * * Clinical Laboratory Testing Volume 2: Business Strategies Clinical laboratory testing is generally categorized as either of two general areas--clinical testing and anatomical pathology testing. Clinical and anatomical pathology procedures are frequently ordered as part of regular physician office visits and hospital admissions in connection with the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. As such, clinical laboratory analysis is one of the most important sections of medical care. The purpose of this TriMark Publications report is to describe the specific segments of the clinical laboratory analysis business. The emphasis in this review is on those companies that are actively developing and marketing laboratory data for the clinical setting, including hospitals, independent labs, physician’s offices and miscellaneous clinics. This study concentrates on the clinical laboratory industry in the U.S. It defines the dollar volume of sales in each major market and analyzes the factors that influence the size and the growth of the individual market segments. The study surveys some of the primary companies known to be marketing clinical laboratory data into the market. Each company is discussed in depth with a section on the history of the company, the product line, business and marketing analysis, and a subjective commentary of the position of the company in its market.Published By: TriMark Publications
Date Published: Jan 2010 * * * * * *
Interesting sites and useful resources
| ACA |
Australian Communications Authority.
Frequently
asked questions (2005). Wireless local area networks in
the 2.4 GHz band. Accessing the public telecommunications
network and related issues...
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| Analog Devices |
Wireless
Short-Range Devices: Designing a Global License-Free System
for Frequencies < 1 GHz (PDF) Designers of SRD wireless
systems need to use great care in choosing the radio’s
communication frequency. In most cases, the choice is limited
to those portions of the spectrum that allow license-free
operation given that certain specifications and conditions on
usage are met... |
| ELPRO Technologies |
2.4 GHz
vs 900/869 MHz Performance of Different Frequency Bands.
This article looks at the principles of radio technology to
explain the differences in performance between different radio
bands. It explains the different characteristics in an
industrial environment between the common 2.4GHz ISM band and
the lesser used 900 and 869 MHz bands. |
| ERO |
European Radiocommunications Office.
The
European Table Of Frequency Allocations And Utilisations
Covering The Frequency Range 9 KHz To 275 GHz (PDF)
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| ETSI |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) |
Telecom Glossary
Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau
Government
Telecommunications Sites in Other Countries Links to
government telecommunications and broadcast sites numerous
countries around the world. |
| GSM
Association |
GSM Association |
| Hong Kong University
Telecommunications Research Project |
Spectrum
Management Introduction Introduction, Management of the
Spectrum, Frequency Allocation, Licensing of Spectrum Use,
Spectrum Management & EMC, Licence Fees & Spectrum
Pricing, Broadband & Convergence |
| HowStuffWorks |
How
the Radio Spectrum Works All your life you have heard
about "AM Radio" and "FM radio",
"VHF" and "UHF" television, "Citizens
Band Radio", "Short Wave radio" and so on. Have
you ever wondered what all of those different names really
mean? In this edition of How Stuff Works we will look at the
radio spectrum and see what is really going on! |
| IBM |
Who
gets the 3G spectrum? (11/01) Government's new plan for 3G
spectrum is a mixed bag for wireless providers. 3G could
provide us with easy access to an incredible range of new
telecommunications services. In order to provide those
services, however, wireless companies must be able to access a
significant amount of spectrum that is currently dominated by
government and other commercial interests. Technology writer
Dana Triplett uncovers the latest plan from the federal
government for assessing spectrum use, offering an inside look
at the players in the struggle for the invisible but valuable
commodity of radio frequency in the U.S. |
| International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) |
The ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an
international organization within which governments and the
private sector coordinate global telecom networks and
services.
ITU Newsroom
Latest press releases and notices.
ITU Calendar of Events
Meeting schedules, events, archives.
ITU
Radio-Frequency Spectrum Publications The
Radiocommunication Sector acts as the coordinator in managing
the usable radio-frequency spectrum efficiently, keeping it
free from harmful interference, and adopts international
regulations and treaties governing this use. |
| NATO |
Cooperation
in Radio Frequency Management (2000) Cooperation between
NATO member countries in the use of radio frequencies for
defence purposes is underpinned by a common commitment to
collective security and defence. The availability of radio
frequencies is essential for the armed forces' operational
readiness and effectiveness and the NATO-wide standardisation
and coordination of frequency allocations is vital to ensure
interoperability among multinational forces. |
| NTIA |
US
National Spectrum Requirements: Projections and Trends The
availability of radio spectrum in the United States is
critical to many telecommunications services, ranging from
cellular telephones to air traffic control. Although spectrum
is not a consumable resource, the use of a frequency at a
given location usually excludes that frequency from being used
by others in the same geographic area. This need for exclusive
geographic use has led to current spectrum regulations that
establish exclusivity in spectrum use by granting licenses for
spectrum use, and the partitioning of the spectrum for shared
use between radio services.
US
Frequency Allocation Chart (PDF)
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| Radio-Electronics.Com |
Major
Mobile Phone Systems The large number of different mobile
phone systems that are talked about today can be very
confusing. Whilst not all are in use today many different
names and technologies are talked about. The table below gives
a summary of the main systems... |
| RadioRegs |
Articles on the RTTE Directive. |
| RF-man |
Amateur Radio, Citizen's Band, PMR446, Handheld radio,
Buying a new radio, ... |
| RPC Telecommunications |
Specialists in satellite systems and radio transmission,
with a strong emphasis on the engineering, use, management and
regulation of the radio frequency spectrum, especially for
satellite networks. Also develop software tools for use in the
spectrum management process and provide satellite and
telecommunications training. |
| UK Amateur Radio
Astronomy Network |
Radio
Astronomy Frequency Allocations. Frequencies allocated for
radio astronomy in the European Union. |
| ZDNet |
Overcrowded
Airwaves A kind of air traffic control may be needed to
manage our ever-expanding wireless communications. Wireless
networking has been touted as an ideal solution for a wide
range of communications problems -- synchronizing PDAs with
desktop PCs, eliminating printer cables, creating in-building
LANs, connecting buildings on a campus and even spanning the
"last mile" -- the distance between a connected PC
and telephone company or ISP. But wireless has its dark side:
interference. As wireless devices proliferate, we will see
more and more "midair collisions." To understand
why, you need to understand the politics, economics, and
technology behind today's wireless networking equipment. |
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Recent Spectrum Headlines
FreshPatents.com Quiet spectrum harvester
Present embodiments provide methods and systems for identifying quiet and/or under utilized segments of the radio spectrum and assigning the identified spectrum to non-primary license holders. The methods and systems may include spectrum management nodes for monitoring frequency bands of the radio spectrum for transmission by a primary user. When...
FreshPatents.com Methods and apparatuses for dealing with spectrum inversion
An apparatus of processing a time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency-division-multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) signal is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving block and a demodulating block. The receiving block receives the TDS-OFDM signal, and generates a down-converted signal according to the received TDS-OFDM signal. The demodulating block is coupled to the receiving...
FreshPatents.com Simple and robust digital code tracking loop for wireless communication systems
A simple and robust CTL is used for time tracking of multipath components of a spread spectrum signal transmitted over a wireless multipath fading channel. A digital code-tracking loop includes the implementations of despreading early and late data samples by use of a pseudonoise sequence, an error signal output generated...
FreshPatents.com Iterative interference canceller for wireless multiple-access systems employing closed loop transmit diversity
An interference-canceling receiver processes coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels from multiple transmit antennas to multiple receive antennas in a closed-loop transmit-diversity channel. The receiver provides for repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimation. Receivers may be designed,...
FreshPatents.com Spread spectrum transceiver
An assembly of simultaneously transmitted electrically generated signals, which contains a subset of binary spreading-code sequences that are members of a larger set of binary spreading-code sequences available to a particular node of a multi-node communication network. All sequences in the set of spreading-code sequences available to the particular node...
FreshPatents.com Multi-band ofdm communications system
A method for providing communication in a wireless network comprising one or more simultaneously operating pico networks includes dividing UWB spectrum into a plurality of frequency bands. These bands are formed into band groups. At least one band group is assigned to each one of the pico networks. At least...
IEEE Scaling Laws for Overlaid Wireless Networks: A Cognitive Radio Network versus a Primary Network
We study the scaling laws for the throughputs and delays of two coexisting wireless networks that operate in the same geographic region. The primary network consists of Poisson distributed legacy users of density $n$ , and the secondary network consists of Poisson distributed cognitive users of density $m$
IEEE Cooperative Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks
The cognitive radio (CR) paradigm calls for open spectrum access according to a predetermined etiquette. Under this paradigm, CR nodes access the spectrum opportunistically by continuously monitoring the operating channels. A key challenge in this domain is how the nodes in a CR network (CRN) cooperate to access the medium in order to maximize the CRN throughput. Typical multichannel MAC protocols assume that frequency channels are adjacent and that there are no constraints on the transmission power. Howev...
BWE Magazine Spectrum and GateHouse to Demonstrate Live Software Defined Implementation of the Inmarsat BGAN Waveform
Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima (TSX:VCM) and GateHouse announced they will be demonstrating a software defined radio (SDR) implementation of the Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) waveform on Spectrum's flex Comm™ SDR-4000 transceiver at Booth 25 during the SDR Forum Product Expo happening December 2-3, 2009 in Washington, DC. Visitors to the booth will be able to access the internet live via the Inmarsat satellite network.
InfoWorld Steve Jobs' Wi-Fi meltdown at WWDC
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' demos of the new iPhone 4 and iOS 4.0's capabilities were brought to a halt today by the bloggers, reporters, and developer attendees all being onlin...
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