The Directigen 1,2,3 Group A Strep Test (DGAST; BBL Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, Md.) was compared with conventional culture methods for the detection of group A streptococci. Among 327 children, the DGAST has a sensitivity of 75.0%, a specificity of 99.1%, and positive and negative predictive values of 97.5 and 89.3%, respectively, as compared with 48-h culture results. The lower sensit...

Reseña del libro Posthuman Feminism, de Rosi Braidotti. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2022. 327 pp.

In his introduction, Pinna (2010) quoted one of Wertheimer’s observations: “I stand at the window and see a house, trees, sky. Theoretically I might say there were 327 brightnesses and nuances of color. Do I have ‘327’? No. I have sky, house, and trees.” This seems quite remarkable, for Max Wertheimer, together with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Koehler, was a pioneer of Gestalt Theory: perceptual o...

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 311 I. BACKGROUND: THE INDUSTRY’S NEED FOR A DRM STANDARD................................................................................... 313 A. Profits and Protection of Media Content ............................ 313 B. Copyright.......................................................................

We recruited 327 consecutive patients with STEMI and multivessel coronary artery disease (MVCAD) who underwent primary PCI. We then assessed the severity of coronary atherosclerosis using coronary angiography and SYNTAX score. All patients were further stratified into two groups: 1) SYNTAX ≤22 points (n=213); 2) SYNTAX ≥23 points (n=114). Out of 327 patients included into initial analysis, 317 ...