BACKGROUND Measurement of the ABO antibody (Ab) titer is important in ABO-incompatible transplantation. However, to the best of our knowledge, no standard protocol or external survey program to measure the ABO Ab titer has been established in Korea. We investigated the current status of ABO Ab titer measurements at various laboratories in Korea and the impact of the protocol provided to reduce ...

Primary cultures of clinical material were screened for the presence of colonies suspected of being Streptococcus agalactiae (Lancefield group B). Sixty-three such cultures and 108 other isolates of beta-hemolytic streptococci (groups A, C, and G), encountered during the first 3 months of the investigation, were studied by Lancefield grouping, sodium hippurate hydrolysis, and a standardized CAM...

Instruments for optical fiber measurements, such as the Fiber Quality Analyzer (FQA), are widely used to measure various properties of pulp samples. For the evaluation of market pulps, the pulp properties of interest are fiber length, coarseness, and fines content. Fiber length and coarseness are often used to determine which pulps are suitable for producing particular products. The objectives ...

Robustness testing of network protocol aims to detect vulnerabilities of protocol specifications and implementations under critical conditions. However, related theory is not well developed and prevalent test practices have deficiencies. This paper builds a novel NPEFSM model containing sufficient inputs and their processing rules to formalize complex protocol. Based on this model, Normal-Verif...

standard protocols should be established for treating eligible stroke patients with tissue plasminogen activator (tpa) (recommendation class i, level of evidence b). the iranian standard protocol of intravenous thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (ivttpa) is the best possible and easy to use method for performing intravenous thrombolysis in iran. this protocol overcomes p...

The aza-vinylogous Povarov reaction between aromatic amines, α-ketoaldehydes or α-formylesters and α,β-unsaturated dimethylhydrazones was carried out in a sequential three-component fashion under mechanochemical conditions. Following extensive optimization work, the performed on vibratory ball mill operating at 20 Hz using zirconium oxide balls milling jar, afforded 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinolines...