Point of Care Testing â¢ What about laboratory instruments used at the point of care, e.g. benchtop blood gas analyzer in the respiratory intensive care unit? â¢ What about point of care devices used in the laboratory, e.g. B-type naturietic peptide device in the core lab? â¢ Testing distinctions and boundaries are becoming more and more blurred
Has anyone ever heard of a gray painted curb which means private parking, on a city street?
The Color Gray The color of detachment, indecision and compromise. The color gray is an unemotional color. It is detached, neutral, impartial and indecisive - the fence-sitter. From a color psychology perspective, gray is the color of compromise - being neither black nor white, it is the transition between two non-colors. The closer gray gets to black, the more dramatic and mysterious it becomes. The closer it gets to silver or white, the more illuminating and lively it becomes. Being both motionless and emotionless, gray is solid and stable, creating a sense of calm and composure, relief from a chaotic world. The color gray is subdued, quiet and reserved. It does not stimulate, energize, rejuvenate or excite. In the meaning of colors, gray is conservative, boring, drab and depressing on the one hand and elegant and formal on the other, yet never glamorous. Gray conforms - it is conventional, dependable and practical. It is a color of maturity and responsibility, associated with the gray hair of old age.