Nature Douses Dilution Experiment

Science News ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
L. Beil
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Linrong Ye ◽  
Hao Yu ◽  
Mingjun Wang ◽  
Qianglong Wang ◽  
Wenxi Tian ◽  
...  

BMC Genomics ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy G Lynch ◽  
James Hadfield ◽  
Mark J Dunning ◽  
Michelle Osborne ◽  
Natalie P Thorne ◽  
...  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-171
Author(s):  
Robert J Blodgett

Abstract A serial dilution experiment estimates the microbial concentration in a broth by inoculating several sets of tubes with various amounts of the broth. The estimation uses the Poisson distribution and the number of tubes in each of these sets that show growth. Several factors, such as interfering microbes, toxins, or disaggregation of adhering microbes, may distort the results of a serial dilution experiment. A mild enough distortion may not raise suspicion with a single outcome. The test introduced here judges whether the entire set of serial dilution outcomes appears unusual. This test forms lists of the possible outcomes. The set of outcomes is declared unusual if any occurrence of an observed outcome is on the first list, or more than one is on the first or second list, etc. A similar test can apply when there are only a finite number of possible outcomes, and each outcome has a calculable probability, and few outcomes have tied probabilities.


Significance ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 106-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Bland
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1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
pp. 195 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Schwartz ◽  
J. Imberger

The flushing characteristics of a newly constructed marina were determined from a comprehensive field study which included a dye dilution experiment together with measurements of barotropic and baroclinic forcing parameters. The results to be presented show that the major exchange process in this particular marina is a baroclinic circulation, and that the exchange rate is controlled by the harbour entrance geometry.


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