BACKGROUND Kasabach-Merritt syndrome (KMS) is characterized by giant hemangiomas and severe thrombocytopenia, which may result in life-threatening multi-organ hemorrhage. This study evaluated the clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes in neonates with KMS, in order to find out the optimal therapy. METHODS The clinical data of 17 patients treated for KMS in the Department of Neonat...

MICHAEL HUNTER and SIMON SCHAFFER (eds), Robert Hooke. new studies, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 1989, 8vo, pp. x, 310, illus., £39.50. The studies under review are new in that they come from a conference on Hooke that took place in 1987. Recency does not guarantee freshness, however, and, with a few exceptions, the studies only, though competently, add epicycles to the known world of Re...

Goodness of Fit (GOF) tests for non-location/scale families of distributions have not been studied extensively. Previous research has focused on the case where the distribution function is either completely specified or a member of a location/scale family. A new test statistic, which resembles a regression sum of squares, is developed and its properties investigated in this dissertation. This s...

We thank Meredith J. West and Andrew P. King for their guidance, insight, assistance, and friendship over the course of the two sets of studies described in this review, and beyond. The work simply could not have been done without them. We also wish to thank Jennifer Miller and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript, and Robert Lickliter for the invitat...

Though emotions are often morally appraised and judged in everyday life among individuals, within the moral responsibility community this comes in direct conflict with the commonly held belief that moral responsibility requires some form of volitional control. Angela Smith argues that volitional control is not a key factor in responsibility but depends upon an agent’s evaluat ive judgments. She...

*We thank Capital Management Sciences (CMS) for providing the credit spread data. Earlier versions were presented at a CMS Fixed Income Conference in Phoenix, Arizona in September 1999, in Discussion at the April 2000 UCLA Liquidity Conference, at the ICBI Risk Conference in Geneva, Switzerland in December 2000, and at the University of Washington in April, 2001. Comments on this draft are welc...

A very preliminary proposal to make up a system that cancels the magnetic eld of Earth for executing satellite tests in Venezuela is made. Firstly, it reviewed general status considering electrical currents and possible domains structure equipment reviewed. After checking some cancellation systems, concluded an optimal option be selected Merritt 4-coil because offers good uniformity field larg...