BACKGROUND Citrated platelet-rich plasma (PRP) turbidimetry is used for assessing pharmacodynamic effects of glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa antagonists in clinical trials. However, citrate can enhance the potency of at least eptifibatide (Integrilin), and turbidimetry is insensitive to microaggregate formation. We compared PRP turbidimetry, as a measure of macroaggregate formation, with single-plat...

OBJECTIVE Albuminuria in type 2 diabetic patients is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We investigated the correlation between albuminuria and spontaneous microaggregation of platelets (SMAP) formed under shear stress. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study subjects were 401 type 2 diabetic individuals (252 with normoalbuminuria and 149 with albuminuria) who were examined for SMAP unde...

Publication of statistical information by national agencies in the form of microdata (i.e., individual records) raises the problem of preventing disclosure of confidential information about particular respondents without significantly damaging the utility of the data being protected. Often, statistical agencies disseminate information only in the form of tables. But, microdata—records which con...

Microaggregation of band 3 proteins in hereditary ovalocytic membranes was investigated by rotational diffusion measurements and by electron microscopy. It was previously shown that band 3 in ovalocytic membranes has decreased rotational mobility compared with band 3 in normal cells (Tilley, L., Nash, G.B., Jones, G.L. and Sawyer, W.L. (1991) J. Membr. Biol. 121, 59-66). This result could arise...

In addition to the general-purpose SSE-based utility evaluation conducted and discussed in the body of the article, in this appendix we provide evaluation results for a specific data use, namely counting queries. The reason of focusing on this data use is that many related works on differentially-private data publishing aim at preserving the utility for counting queries over protected data [12–...