PulStar differential compliance spinal instrument: a randomized interexaminer and intraexaminer reliability study.

Objective: To provide an entry-level, new technology reliability assessment of the PulStar computer-assisted, differential compliance spinal instrument.

Subjects: Eighteen college students (9 male and 9 female) were recruited by announcements and personal contacts.

Methods: Following approval of the consent process by the Institutional Review Board of Mississippi State University, a PulStar Function Recording and Analysis System (PulStarFRAS) device was evaluated for clinical reliability.

The stable carbon isotope ratio of some components of an eelgrass, Zostera marina, bed.

Living and dead Zostera marina blades, plankton samples, sediments, and several animal components of an eelgrass bed near Beaufort, N.C. were collected and analyzed for C/C ratios (δ C).