Synthesis and structural evolution of BaLaTiBiO solid solutions (0.0 ≤ x ≤ 0.05).

In this study, the synthesis and structural evolution of pure BaTiO and BaTiO co-doped with La and Bi, produced using the ball milling method and heat treatment, were analyzed. The starting materials included chemically pure precursor powders of BaCO, TiO, LaO and BiO. Stoichiometric calculations were performed using the BaLaTiBiO mechanism with concentrations x = 0.

Discrepancies on quality perceived by the patients versus professionals on the quality of a nuclear medicine department.

Purpose: To evaluate the discrepancies between the professionals and outpatients on quality perceived of a Nuclear Medicine Department (NMD).

Material And Methods: This cross-sectional study has been carried out using two questionnaires: a validated patient experience questionnaire and a quality perception questionnaire for professionals. Both questionnaires use the same 25 categorical items to measure service quality, 2 Likert scale items to measure satisfaction and willingness to recommend the NMD and 1 open-ended question.

[Personalizing the reference level: gold standard to evaluate the quality of service perceived].

Objective: To know the cutoff point at which in-house Nuclear Medicine Department (MND) customers consider that the quality of service is good (personalized cutoff).

Material And Method: We conducted a survey of the professionals who had requested at least 5 tests to the Nuclear Medicine Department. A total of 71 doctors responded (response rate: 30%).

[Assessment of the patient satisfaction with a Nuclear Medicine Service].

Goal: To know the perceived quality and the levels of patient satisfaction with the Nuclear Medicine Service (MN).

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed. The authors designed a self-applied questionnaire based on a questionnaire from a survey created by the National Health Service of the UK.

Induction of immunity in sheep to Fasciola hepatica with mimotopes of cathepsin L selected from a phage display library.

An M13 phage random 12-mers peptide library was used to screen cathepsin L mimotopes of Fasciola hepatica and to evaluate their immunogenicity in sheep. Seven clones showed positive reactivity to a rabbit anti-cathepsin L1/L2 antiserum in ELISA, and their amino acid sequences deduced by DNA sequencing were tentatively mapped on the protein. Twenty sheep were randomly allocated into 4 groups of 5 animals each, for immunization with 1x10(14) phage particles of clones 1, 20, a mixture of 7 clones and PBS, without adjuvant at the beginning, and 4 weeks later.