SAS® ODS provides programmers with the ability to extract selected information from a procedure and store it in datasets. Such datasets can then be combined to summarize the results from numerous procedures. The SAS Macro facility can be used to execute and extract information from repetitively called SAS procedures. “Macro Variable Arrays” can simplify the extraction of information from SAS pr...

Optimal (NH(4))(2)SO(4) concentrations were sought for serum fractionation in order to obtain the gamma globulin as free as possible from other serum components while maintaining a reasonable recovery. Various ammonium sulfate concentrations were used to fractionate sera from mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, chimpanzees, swine, chicken, and cattle. All precipitates and supernatants were an...

Recent advances in classical planning have used the SAS+ formalism, and several effective heuristics have been developed based on the SAS+ formalism. Comparing to the traditional STRIPS/ADL formalism, SAS+ is capable of capturing vital information such as domain transition structures and causal dependencies. In this paper, we propose a new SAS+ based incomplete planning approach. Instead of usi...

Somatic complaints are often key features of anxiety pathology. Although most measures of anxiety symptoms capture somatic complaints to some degree, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) was developed primarily as a measure of somatic symptoms associated with anxiety responding. We evaluated the psychometric properties and factor structure of the SAS in two large undergraduate samples who comple...

Assessment of cardiorespiratory consequences of sleep apnoea syndrome (SAS) is difficult owing to confounding factors, especially obesity, that are strongly associated with SAS. This study was designed to assess the cardiorespiratory consequences of SAS by comparing the results of a comprehensive cardiorespiratory evaluation in apnoeic and nonapnoeic patients with massive obesity. In a retrospe...

SAS/GRAPH is a powerful tool for customizing the box plot to detect and identify outliers. This paper shows how to use the ANNOTATE facility and annotate data set to customize box plots and profile plots of outliers using data from a dietary-health study. This paper assumes: • A working knowledge of basic SAS/GRAPH procedures. • The ability to display or print graphics on your operating system...

BACKGROUND Simpson-Angus Scale (SAS) is an established instrument for neuroleptic-induced parkinsonism (NIP), but its statistical properties have been studied insufficiently. Some shortcomings concerning its content have been suggested as well. According to a recent report, the widely used SAS mean score cut-off value 0.3 of for NIP detection may be too low. Our aim was to evaluate SAS against ...

BACKGROUND The Survey of Autonomic Symptom (SAS) scale was reported as an easy instrument to assess the autonomic symptoms in patients with early diabetic neuropathy. In this study, we investigated the relationship between the SAS scale and the parameters of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) in Korean patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). METHODS The SAS scale was tested in 30 ...

The mechanisms that ensure centrosome duplication are poorly understood. In Caenorhabditis elegans, ZYG-1, SAS-4, SAS-5 and SPD-2 are required for centriole formation. However, it is unclear whether these proteins have functional homologues in other organisms. Here, we identify SAS-6 as a component that is required for daughter centriole formation in C. elegans. SAS-6 is a coiled-coil protein t...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a large SAS production billing system developed at Hewlett-Packard's Corporate Data Center. The design considerations for implementing such a large system in SAS will be discussed along with advantages of implementing this system in SAS, such as: quick prototyping and implementation, ease of use, adaptability, efficiency and the additional f...