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positive control

i. A method of airspace control that relies on positive identification, tracking, and the direction of an aircraft within an airspace, conducted with electronic means by an agency with the authority and responsibility.
ii. Tactical control of an aircraft by a designated control unit, in which the pilot receives orders affecting the aircraft's movements and which immediately transfers responsibility for its safe navigation to the unit issuing the orders.

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PC: Positive control; NC: Negative control TABLE 3.

Determination of Antimicrobial Activity of Corchorus olitorius Leaf Extracts

The intensity of electric current was slowly increased by turning a dial on the tester from 0 to 10 at a rate of one numerical increase per five seconds until a response was obtained.3 The positive control tooth was tested first, followed by the contralateral traumatized tooth.

The Efficacy of Laser Doppler Flowmetry, Electric Pulp Test and Cold Test in Diagnosing Revascularization of Extrusively Luxated Immature Maxillary Incisors

The negative control group had uncontaminated burs (new/unused) while the positive control group consisted of used contaminated burs.

Assessment of contamination on sterilised dental burs after being subjected to various pre-cleaning methods

Interestingly, the students at the positive control school who had previously received two years of CATCH instruction showed no significant differences in their preassessment response rates to any item on the questionnaire when compared with the negative control and intervention schools.

The Boss' Healthy Buddies Nutrition Resource Is Effective for Elementary School Students

A1, negative control; 2B, amprolium; 3C, positive control; 4D, diclazuril; 5E, sulphachloropyrazine; and 6F, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole.

Efficacy of Sulphachloropyrazine, Amprolium Hydrochloride, Trimethoprim-Sulphamethoxazole, and Diclazuril against Experimental and Natural Rabbit Coccidiosis

Positive control showed significant (P<0.0001) reduction in skin thickness to negative control after 24 hours.

EFFECT OF COLCHICINE ON CELLULAR IMMUNE RESPONSES IN MICE

Negative and positive control PCR from first-round amplified product were used in the second round negative and positive controls respectively.

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in Women Population of Rafha City, Saudi Arabia

Results showed that the mutagen MMS as the positive control (T3) had the highest incidence of micronuclei formation in the experiment while the genotoxic treatment (T4) at 500 ppm including the negative control treatments (T1 and T2) had the lowest micronuclei counts.

GENOTOXIC, ANTIGENOTOXIC AND PROTECTIVE EVALUATION OF TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA STEM BY PERIPHERAL BLOOD MICRONUCLEUS ASSAY

Lane 1, molecular weight marker; lanes 2-4, clinical samples; lane 5, DNA positive control for E.

Detection and differentiation of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar in clinical samples through PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis

(16) More recently a large (n = 300) 4-day plaque regrowth study comparing an aloe vera extract rinse to 0.2% CHG and a placebo rinse showed both the test group and positive control to significantly (p < 0.05) reduce plaque compared to the placebo, while no statistically significant difference was demonstrated between them.

Therapeutic oral rinsing with noncommercially available products: position paper and statement from the Canadian dental hygienists association, part 2

Additionally, as a positive control, an injection of 25 [micro]l of lipopolysaccharide LPS (Sigma-Aldrich, Missouri, USA) at a concentration of 2mg/ml (50 [micro]g in total) was injected into the skin of non-tumor-bearing mice.

Gene Electrotransfer of Plasmid-Encoding IL-12 Recruits the M1 Macrophages and Antigen-Presenting Cells Inducing the Eradication of Aggressive B16F10 Murine Melanoma

A commonly used commercial medical fungicide clotrimazole was used as a positive control (standard).

Immunomodulating and Revascularizing Activity of Kalanchoe pinnata Synergize with Fungicide Activity of Biogenic Peptide Cecropin P1