Thrombin-antithrombin III complex (TAT) concentration was measured in 27 control and 155 intensive care patients to (a) establish normal reference ranges, (b) measure thrombin generation in critically ill patients, and (c) determine the characteristics of the TAT assay for the diagnosis of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in children. The normal reference range was 1-4.3 micrograms/...

This paper considers control aane systems in IR 4 with two inputs, and gives necessary and suucient conditions for dynamic feedback linearization of these systems with the restriction that the linearizing outputss must be some functions of the original state and inputs only. This also gives conditions for non-aane systems in IR 3. Linnarisation dynamique des systtmes deux commandes et quatre ta...

PURPOSE To determine the reasons for choosing the medical profession by interviewing freshmen medical students from the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo and investigating their socio-economic and psychological profiles, as well as to determine whether there are gender differences. METHOD One hundred and sixty three freshmen medical students answered a questionnaire regarding their...

An advanced equipment process is an important technological assets to companies. Development of the IT industry has led to an increase in demand for the semiconductor productivity of the high efficiency, steadily. But it is not easy to test using actual process because TAT (as known turnaround time of job) is so long. the test cost is also expensive. This paper proposes a DEVS model for simulat...

Expert clinicians were given batteries of psychodiagnostic test results (Rorschach, TAT, Draw-A-Person, Bender-Gestalt, Wechsler) to analyze. For half, a battery came along with a suggestion that the person su€ers from Borderline Personality disorder, and for half, that battery was accompanied by a suggestion that he su€ers from Paranoid Personality disorder. In Study 1, the suggestion was made...

Article History: Received 14.07.2015 Received in revised form 21.08.2015 Accepted 01.09.2015 Available online 23.09.2015 Implicit measurements are sensitive for influences of experimenter and situation. An assessment using computers could therefore avert those negative effects, if there is an adequate translation to computer (Blankenship, 2010). We split the implicit achievement motive into the...

Effect of spirulina and Liv-52 on lead induced hypercholesteroleamia in albino rats was studied. Oral administration of lead acetate(10mg/kg body weight/day) for 30 days resulted in a significant increase(P<0.01) in the level of serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL Cholesterol and a significant decreases in the level of serum HDL cholesterol, when compared to normal and control group of ...

The mental representations and self-concept of 20 sexually abused, 20 physically abused, and 20 nonabused but distressed females, ages 7-12, were studied using the TAT and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. Results were analyzed both statistically from objective scoring systems, and clinically from direct observations and from an analysis of the interaction of abused children with ...

BACKGROUND Laboratory turnaround time (TAT) is an important determinant of patient stay and quality of care. Our objective is to evaluate laboratory TAT in our emergency department (ED) and to generate a simple model for identifying the primary causes for delay. METHODS We measured TATs of hemoglobin, potassium, and prothrombin time tests requested in the ED of a tertiary-care, metropolitan h...

Many investigators have demonstrated that human blood pressure can be made to rise under the influence of various noxious or psychologically stressful stimuli. The role played by responses to such stimuli in the etiology of essential hypertension has been the subject of much intense speculation and research, most recently reviewed by S. Wolf, et al.' and Geiger and Scotch.2 A major problem in i...