S creening for gestational diabetes mellitus requires an oral glucose challenge test with a 50-g glucola beverage and venous blood sample after 1 h. A “positive screen” is defined as a venous blood glucose of either .130 mg/dL or 140 mg/dL (1,2), and the patient then undergoes a diagnostic fasting 3-h glucose tolerance test (GTT) with a 100-g glucola (1). However, up to 30% of pregnant women ca...

Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy (Nomarsky optics) readily demonstrates the formation of “pits” or crater-like depressions in red cell membranes of splenectomized individuals. Splenic reticuloendothelial dysfunction characteristic of many patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) can be demonstrated by technetium spleen scans, but this technique is expensive, requires injection...

Likelihood ratio tests (LRTs) for separability of a covariance structure for doubly multivariate data are widely studied in the literature. There are three types of LRT: biased tests based on an asymptotic chi-square null distribution; unbiased/unmodified tests based on an empirical null distribution; and unbiased/modified tests with a test statistic modified to follow a theoretical chi-square ...

We propose a two step method and an architecture for testing real time protocol entities In the rst step the timed speci cation of the implementation under test is transformed into an equivalent untimed speci cation Then in the second step test methods for non real time systems may be used In comparison with other test methods using sim ilar approaches our method avoids state explosion A transf...

In the present paper, a new data-driven model is proposed to close and increase accuracy of Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations. Among variety turbulent quantities, it has been decided predict divergence Reynolds stress tensor (RST). Recent literature works highlighted potential this choice. The key novelty work obtain through neural network (NN) whose architecture input choice guarantee ...

One serum and three plasma samples were obtained from each of 125 normal individuals and from 140 patients with treated or untreated syphilis. Serum samples were tested by the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test and by the Reagin Screen Test (RST). Plasma specimens were tested only with the RST. When tested within 24 h after collection, all specimens from normal individuals were no...

Moore and Pollack have recently given an analysis of R.ST relations in tel'mS of in tent ional versus in format ional levels of discourse [5]. Accol'ding to their (convincing) analysis, presentational RST relations correspond to the intentional level of discourse and subject matter relations to the inlbrmational level. For each text there shouhl exist two RST analyses: one containing only prese...