INTRODUCTION The objective of the analysis was to examine the epidemiological aspects of maternal alloimmunization and to determine the most common antibody specificities resulting in hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). MATERIALS AND METHODS The retrospective epidemiological study encompasses all pregnant women who underwent immunohematological screening and the newborn treated for HDN in...

Grain hardness characteristics for a range of corn hybrids were measured using a modified Stenvert Hardness Test (SHT). A computer-based data logging and analysis system was constructed to obtain the milling time and transient power consumption during the milling process, from which milling energy and peak power demand were calculated. In addition, the time taken to mill 17 ml of flour (resista...

The Ruff Figural Fluency Test (RFFT) is a cognitive test to measure executive function. Longitudinal studies have shown that repeated testing improves performance on the RFFT. Such a practice effect may hinder the interpretation of test results in a clinical setting. Therefore, we investigated the longitudinal performance on the RFFT in persons aged 35-82 years. Performance on the RFFT was meas...

For Swedish Warmblood sport horses, breeding values (BVs) are predicted using a multiple-trait animal model with results from competitions and young horse performance tests. Data go back to the beginning of the 1970s, and earlier studies have indicated that some of the recorded traits have changed through the years. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of including all per...

The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) and the Word Lists Test (WLT) from the Wechsler Memory Scale-III are widely used tests of verbal learning and memory. To examine concordance between these popular tests, we administered both to a diagnostically diverse group of 25 patients. As expected, measures from the two tests were highly correlated, although level of concordance was not as high as...

The Stroop Test, also known as the color-word naming test, has been used in over sixty published psychological studies since the test was originally described by Stroop (2). The test has been used to attempt to measure a variety of processes and traits in the cognitive and personality domains, which it is not the purpose of this article to review. The psychometric characteristics of the Stroop ...

The aim of this study was to compare the effects of acute aerobic and strength exercises on selected executive functions. A counterbalanced, crossover, randomized trial was performed. Forty-two healthy women were randomly submitted to three different conditions: (1) aerobic exercise, (2) strength exercise, and (3) control condition. Before and after each condition, executive functions were meas...

Intact human erythrocytes were cross-linked with glutaraldehyde (GA) or dimethyladipimidate (DMA) and tested for their ability to bind [125I]-IgG anti-Rh0(D) and to undergo antibody-mediated hemagglutination. There was no decrease in antibody binding after treatment with GA concentrations up to 1.25% and DMA concentrations up to 1%. Red cells treated with these concentrations of GA and DMA did ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of genetically diverse HIV samples from China on the performance of the automated COBAS(R) AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan(R) HIV-1 Test (CAP/CTM). METHODS 185 samples from untreated HIV-1-infected patients were used to assess the performance of the CAP/CTM Test and COBAS Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor Test, v1.5 (Cobas). RESULTS A comparison of the qualitative results o...

In April I965, anti-Doa, an antibody defining a 'new' red cell antigen, was reported (Swanson, Polesky, Tippett, and Sanger, I965). The present paper records the results of tests with anti-Doa on samples received in this unit from October I964 until April I966. Anti-Doa reacts best by the antiglobulin test on papainized cells, but only a minority of otherwise good antiglobulin sera are suitable...