A large part of previous work dealt with the robustness of parametric significance tests against nonnormality, heteroscedasticity, or a combination of both. The behavior of tests under violations of the independence assumption received comparatively less attention. Therefore, in applications, researches may overlook that robustness and power properties of tests can vary with the sign and the ma...

The Color Trails Test (CTT) has been described as a culture-fair test of visual attention, graphomotor sequencing, and effortful executive processing abilities relative to the Trail Making Test (TMT). In this study, the equivalence of the TMT and the CTT among a group of 64 bilingual Turkish university students was examined. No difference in performance on the CTT-1 and TMT Part A was found, su...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to determine whether a multidirectional stepping training improves balance, gait ability, and falls efficacy in stroke patients. [Subjects] Firty patients who met the selection criteria and agreed to participate in research at hospital N were randomly allocated and enrolled in this study. Twenty of the subjects were assigned to an experimental group that ...

The science of designing damping rings for linear colliders continues to mature with the ongoing investigations of damping ring physics and technology at the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK and the CESR Test Accelerator (CesrTA) at Cornell. We review lattice design, emittance tuning techniques, electron cloud and other collective effects that are manifested in the ultra low emittance reg...

The H-T-P standardization sample as described in the manual ̂ *̂ included 140 subjects age 16 and above. Since the norms for evaluation of the House-Tree-Person drawings in terms of IQ's were derived from such populations, it may be assumed that this type of intellectual evaluation was prepared primarily for adults. However, soon after the publication of the H-T-P manual various workers in the fi...

Model Generative Reasoning (MGR) is a problem solving architecture designed to support AI applications in unstructured task environments, i.e. in task environments in which the statistical quality, completeness, and relevance of the data that will be available to the problem solver at any particular time cannot be predicted reliably (Hartley et al., 1987; Coombs and Hartley, in press a; Coombs ...

FTER THE pioneer work of the French School in the study of acquired hemolytic anemia ( Hayem,’ Chauffard,2 WidaP ) , and the demonstration of hemolysins 30 years later by Dameshek and Schwartz,4 Boorman, Dodd and Loutit5 demonstrated the presence of a positive direct antiglobulin test. Thus, the immunologic origin of some of these cases has been gradually clarified, although many aspects of the...

In vivo coating of red cells by antibody and/or complement is detected using various sensitive techniques, however most hospitals even today rely on the conventional tube technique (CTT). We compared the performance of the CTT and recently introduced gel test (GT) in the evaluation of direct antiglobulin test (DAT). The CTT and GT were first compared using in-house prepared control cells. The p...