Standard immune responses are the sum of many clonal responses, cross-reactive and specific. Any study of clonal expression as well as analysis of its products requires the separation of clones. There are several approaches to this goal (1-3). The one we used was to generate immune responses of restricted heterogeneity where a limited number ofclonotypes determine the response (4, 5). The prere...

Jeri Wright studies the neural basis of behaviour and the nutritional ecology of honeybees in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University. A Wyoming native, she studied botany at the University of Wyoming while working as an assistant researcher in the entomology museum. As an undergraduate, she first combined her interest in plants and insects by studying insect nutrition as a Rhodes...

BACKGROUND Association of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia has been seldom reported with Kawasaki disease. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 7-month-old boy, presented with prolonged fever, erythematous rash, severe pallor and hepatosplenomegaly. OBSERVATIONS Positive Direct Coombs test and coronary artery aneurysm on echocardiography. He was managed with steroids along with intravenous immunoglobulins a...

We consider four factors relevant to picking a voting rule to be used to select a single candidate from among a set of choices: (1) avoidance of Condorcet losers, (2) choice of Condorcet winners, (3) resistance to manipulability via strategic voting, (4) simplicity. However, we do not try to evaluate all voting rules that might be used to select a single alternative. Rather, our focus is restri...

It was shown by Wiener (1944) that some human a,nti-Rh sera contained incomplete antibodies which combined with but did not agglutinate the corresponding red cells. They appeared to be more avid than agglutinating antibodies, so that, if the two kinds of antibody co-existed in the same serum, the incomplete or blocking antibody might account for failure of agglutination or for a zone of inhibit...

This article extends Coombs and Holladay’s (2018) social issues management model to provide new perspectives on activism public relations. It also fills a gap in the literature internal by analyzing case of The Ogilvy Group their employees, many whom pushed for agency resign its work U.S. Customs Border Protection. Through textual analysis leaked transcript documenting meeting between activist ...

We show that shift bribery is intractable for the voting systems of Hare, Coombs, Baldwin, and Nanson.

BACKGROUND The rising worldwide incidence of tuberculosis (TB) increases the demand for knowledge about its potential seroreactivity with other microbial agents. A few reports and the authors' experiences indicate that tuberculosis may result in a false-positive brucellosis serology. This may cause a diagnostic challenge because of the close clinical resemblance of these two infections. OBJEC...