Persistence of donor leukocytes in the circulation of recipients of intrauterine transfusion (IUT) has been observed up to 5 years after birth. The aim of this study was to determine whether transfusions with nonirradiated, nonleukocyte-depleted donor blood during the fetal period resulted in long-term immunomodulation of the recipient. Twenty-four surviving IUT recipients between 1966 and 1976...

Economically transformers constitute one of the largest investments in a Power system. For this reason, transformer condition assessment and management is a high priority task. If a transformer fails, it would have a significant negative impact on revenue and service reliability. Monitoring the state of health of power transformers has traditionally been carried out using laboratory Dissolved G...

Intrauterine transfusion (IUT) therapy is the treatment of choice in severe hemolytic disease of the fetus. This treatment automatically implies the introduction of alloantigens in the fetal circulation, which might potentially influence the unprimed fetal immune system. The present study provides evidence that the fetal immune system is indeed prone to modulations of the T-cell receptor BV (TC...

Recently, passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have received an exponential amount of attention as researchers have worked tirelessly to implement a stable and reliable system. Unfortunately, despite vast improvements in the quality of RFID technology, a significant amount of erroneous data is still captured in the system. Currently, the problems associated with RFID have been ...

The effective assessment on the operation condition of power transformer is an important means to conduct the condition maintenance for transformer and to improve the reliability of power system. Based on the amount of information of all kinds of online monitoring conditions obtained from the transformer intelligent components, the assessment model for comprehensive condition of transformer is ...

0 Introduction In modern treatments of predicate calculus [2], no mention is made of states or variables up until the point where substitution is introduced. There, suddenly, the abstraction that reigned before is cast to the winds, and a substitution is defined as the result of a textual replacement of variable names by expressions. It is the purpose of this note to remedy this breach of style...

AIMS To review the outcome of infants who received in-utero transfusion (IUT) at National Women's Hospital (NWH). Specifically to determine postnatal exchange and top-up transfusion requirements, to examine perinatal factors useful for predicting this and review neurodevelopmental status of recipients. METHODS A review was undertaken of infants delivered at NWH between 1991 and 2000, who had ...

SkeletonAgent is an agent framework whose main feature is to integrate different artificial intelligent skills, like planning or learning, to obtain new behaviours in a multi agent environment. This framework has been previously instantiated in a deliberative domain (electronic tourism), where planning was used to integrate Web information in a tourist plan. RoboSkeleton results from the instan...