Abstract. Negative affect associated with autobiographical events fades faster over time than positive affect. This Fading Affect Bias (FAB) has been established in the individual and interpersonal domains. Two studies tested FAB intergroup relations Muslims ( N= 76 White British non-Muslim) opposite gender N = 242 women men) as target outgroups. The results indicated that exists an context, fo...

Why are some fields and occupations more diverse than others? In this review, we describe a conceptual framework—the field-specific ability beliefs (FAB) model—that provides promising answer to question. This model proposes that gender racial/ethnic imbalances in field or occupation result part from the confluence of two beliefs: (a) belief success context requires high levels intellectual (“br...

A classification of chronic (mature) B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders based on reproducible morphologic and immunologic criteria was proposed by the FAB group in 1989. Ever since a number of cytogenetic studies disclosed a remarkable degree of heterogeneity within each disease category. In this table the main cytogenetic entities of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and related disorders, B-cell...

Monoclonal antibodies that react with hematopoietic cells and their precursors in a stage and lineage restricted fashion were used in indirect immunofluorescence assays to examine leukemic cells from 105 pediatric age patients. The differentiative states of blasts from 42 patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) were defined by these antibodies. When these were compared to their morph...

Cytogenetic studies were performed in 18 consecutive children with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL) between 1981 and 1983. Three children with acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMMoL; M4, FAB classification) had the following unique bone marrow morphology and cytogenetic abnormality: eosinophilic precursors with dysplastic violaceous granules and a pericentric inversion of chromosome 16. Surfa...

In vitro deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) amplification by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by hybridization with oligonucleotide probes were used to study ras gene mutations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The DNA of 30 AML patients at presentation of the disease at the University of Malaya Hospital, Kuala Lumpur were screened for ras gene mutations in codons 12, 13 and 61 of the N-ras...

Thirty four out of 750 patients entered into the Medical Research Council's (MRC) 9th Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Trial had more than 1% basophils (range 1-27%) often with bizarre granulation and primitive forms, a rare finding in this disease. Both normal and abnormal karyotypes were present including abnormalities of 6p, 12p, and the Philadelphia chromosome. Basophilia was found in both "monoline...

A patient with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANLL), M5b according to French-American-British (FAB) classification, showed monosomy 16, an extra 1p-, and a 21q+. These derivative chromosomes could not be defined by GTG-banding. For better characterization, we performed two-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) experiments applying DNA libraries from sorted human chromosomes, chromosom...

Fifty-four cases of adult acute nonlymphoblastic leukaemia (ANLL) were studied. Their main symptoms were weakness and easy fatiguability (80%), fever (78%) and bleeding manifestation (48.38%). Our patients were younger (median age 34 years) and the disease was more advanced at the time of presentation than that seen in the West. FAB morphological classification of adult ANLL cases showed M2 (44...