FUNNEL EXPERIMENT
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Quality control experiment. Traditionally, it is hitting a mark on a smooth, flat surface below a funnel guiding marbles dropped. Demonstrates the need to remove variation from a process or a system. Unvaried repeatability increases control and lessens the need for intervention. Reduces change to what management can manage.
By Henry Campbell Black
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Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.