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Background: With the marked changes occurring in the medical field, such as rapid population aging, the frequency of one‐dose package use by medication‐dispensing services is increasing. Pharmaceutical companies promote the development of pharmaceutical products that can be identified based on their color, size, and imprinted information to reduce one‐dose packaging errors and difficulties in tablet identification. However, there have not been any studies about the effectiveness of such measures for aiding the identification of tablets in the clinical setting. Therefore, we examined the effects of imprinting on the ease of identification of tablets and capsules.Methods: The study was conducted over a 3‐month period and involved 39 pharmacists aged under 40. The times they needed to transcribe the characters imprinted on each tablet/capsule were measured.Results: The time needed to identify a tablet was significantly shortened by kana printing (p<0.01), whereas more time was required to identify a capsule when the text color was similar to that of the capsule. The observed transcription errors included ‘inaccurately transcribing alphanumeric characters' and ‘omitting units or other information.'Discussion: These results suggest that kana printing is effective at increasing the ease of tablet/capsule identification, which is also affected by the color of the printed text.
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Estudos envolvendo descritores adicionais têm sido de importância para o melhoramento genético de soja. Por isso, neste trabalho, objetivou-se estimar o coeficiente de repetibilidade do comprimento do hipocótilo, do epicótilo, do internódio entre o nó das folhas unifolioladas e da primeira folha trifoliolada, do pecíolo e da raque da primeira folha trifoliolada e determinar o número mínimo de avaliações necessário para predizer o valor real dos genótipos. O trabalho foi desenvolvido na Universidade Federal de Viçosa, analisando-se 85 genótipos de soja em quatro experimentos, no delineamento inteiramente casualizado. A partir das estimativas dos coeficientes de repetibilidade e de determinação obtidos pelos métodos - da análise de variância, dos componentes principais e da análise estrutural -, foram calculados os números de avaliações necessárias. Concluiu-se que os comprimentos do hipocótilo, do epicótilo e do internódio requereram menor quantidade de medição em comparação com os comprimentos do pecíolo e da raque, para o mesmo nível de confiabilidade; e com 15 medições obteve-se 85 por cento de confiabilidade para comprimento do hipocótilo pelos métodos ANOVA e AE(correl) e 90 por cento para CP(correl) e CP(cov); 90 por cento de confiabilidade para comprimento do epicótilo e do internódio pelos métodos ANOVA, CP(correl), CP(cov) e AE(correl); 80 por cento de confiabilidade para comprimento da raque da primeira folha trifoliolada pelos métodos ANOVA, CP(correl), CP(cov) e AE(correl); e, para o comprimento do pecíolo da primeira folha trifoliolada, seriam necessárias 21 medições para confiabilidade de 80 por cento pelos métodos ANOVA e AE(correl) e de 85 por cento pelos CP(correl) e CP(cov).
Studies involving additional descriptors has been important for soybean genetic improvement, so this study aimed to estimate the repeatability the length coefficient of hypocotyl, epicotyl, the internode between the unifoliated leaf nodes and the first trifoliate leaf, from the petiole and from the rachis of the first trifoliate leaf stage and determine the minimum number of evaluations needed to predict the real value of the genotypes. The study was conducted at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, analyzing 85 soybean genotypes in four experiments in a completely randomized design. The numbers of necessary evaluations were calculated from the estimates of repeatability and coefficient of determination obtained by the methods of analysis of variance of the principal component and by the structural analysis. It was concluded that the lengths of the hypocotyl, epicotyl and the internode required fewer measurements compared with the length of the petiole and rachis to the same level of reliability, and with 15 measurements 85 percent of reliability was obtained for hypocotyl length by ANOVA and AE(correl) methods and 90 percent by CP(correl) and CP(cov) methods; 90 percent reliability was obtained for epicotyl and internode length by ANOVA, CP(correl), CP(cov) and AE(correl) method; 80 percent reliability was obtained for rachis length by ANOVA, CP(correl), CP(cov) and AE(correl) methods; and for petiole length, 21 measurements were needed for reliability by ANOVA and AE(correl) methods and 85 percent for CP(correl) and CP(cov) methods.