T LIE ANTICOA(.ULANT PROPERTIES OF ethyleimediamine tetracetic acid were studied for the first time by 1)yckerhoff amid his co-workers.’ They comicluded that this compoumnd acted mainly as ami ant.ithrombin amid to a lesser degree as an antiprothrombin. Later Bosenfeld amid Jansky’ reported that disodiuim ethvlemiediamimie tetracetate or Ei)TA inhibits the tramisformatiomi of fibrinogen to fibr...

idiopathic acquired hemolytic atsemia, Group II, hemolytic atsemia followitsg irus pmseumomsia and Group III, chrotsic hemolytic atsemia with hemoglohitsuria and Raynaud’s phemsomena. A detailed accoumst. of the climsical aspects of tise three patients of Group III was published by Ferrimams, Dacie, Keele amid Fullerton2 who also made an amsalysis of msine similar cases reported in the literatu...

rfHE ANNOUNCE\-IENT of the discoveryof vitamin 1312 in 1948 byRickes, et a!.’ in this coumitry amid hi y Smith, et al.2 in Emiglamid imiitiat-e(! its use in various climiical entities. The principal use has been in the treatment of permiicious -anemia. The dosage of this drug has beemi more or less empirically established!. The hematologic amid subjective responses of the patient with permiicio...

By ROWLAND J. CALVERT AND ERIC SMITH P ERIPHERAL MANIFESTATIONS in lymphatic leukemia are well recognized. They may domimiat.e the climiical picture amid closely simulate other diseases. The unique amid confusimmg acral sighs imi this illustrative case merit detailed description. The only similar case recorded is that of Schit.tenhelm.’ Rhinophyma ‘as, how-ever, an additional feature in our pat...

idiopathic acquired hemolytic atsemia, Group II, hemolytic atsemia followitsg irus pmseumomsia and Group III, chrotsic hemolytic atsemia with hemoglohitsuria and Raynaud’s phemsomena. A detailed accoumst. of the climsical aspects of tise three patients of Group III was published by Ferrimams, Dacie, Keele amid Fullerton2 who also made an amsalysis of msine similar cases reported in the literatu...

By W. H. BAKER, P. C. ZAMECNIK AND M. L. STEPHENSON I N 191 1, Grafe demonstrated that hunsams leukemssic heukocytes possessed an oxidative metabolisns.’ Since that time, many comparative studies on tiormal amid leukemic humisan leukocytes have revealed major quantitative differetsces in their biochemical amid emizynsatic comsstituemits. 5 Details of these differences may be foumid iii the re(’...

Vulnerability analysis of LSDS (Large-Scale distributed systems) has become a growing focus nowadays. A new multi-layer topology model is proposed to describe complex relations between LSDS entities, redundancy mechanism and failure tolerant mechanism in LSDS. Based on this model, a structural vulnerability analysis algorithm based on weight is proposed, which can discover and validate structur...

Rozprawa doktorska wprowadza nowy, zdefiniowany przez autora model obliczeń kryptograficznych, nazwany SBA–modelem. Charakterystyczne cechy tego modelu to ograniczona pamięć, wycieki oraz użycie losowej wyroczni. W rozprawie badane są trzy schematy kryptograficzne: Jednorazowe funkcje pseudolosowe, Schemat ewolucji klucza oraz Funkcje jednorazowe (ang. One-time computable pseudorandom function,...

ARIOUS WORKERS have teported experiniemstal amid clinical ohset-s-atiomss which suggested that psychological stress might affect the blood coagulation system. As early as 1771 William Hesi-somi msoted hypercoagulability of the blood follosvcd hemorrhage. In 1903 Vosburgh amid Richards29 observed misom e iapid (‘0agulatioms accompanied ami imicrease ins the blood sugar of dogs receis-imsg adtemi...

rlhe electroca.rdiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertropliy is ummeertain at best amid is largely based on useful clues. Reliance on the presemmee or absence of abnorally.ll\ high QRS voltage or any of the other presentltk accepted criteria many lead to error. The author undertook evaluation of the reliability of the various electrocardiographlic criteria, of left ventricular hypertro...