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B Reid

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PubMed1979

Spoken words and manual signs as encoding categories in short-term memory for mentally retarded children.

The release from proactive inhibition paradigm was used to test differential encoding of manual signs and spoken words by six severely retarded children. Scores for shift conditions were significantly different from scores for nonshift conditions on the last trial, indicating that manual signs were encoded differently from spoken words for short-term memory storage. Implications of separate encoding categories for the investigation of language processes were discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

Platelets, foreign surfaces, and heparin.

These studies clearly indicate that heparin has 2 antagonistic effects in this platelet-foreign surface interaction; it acts directly on platelets to increase retention, while acting on the foreign surface to reduce platelet retention, perhaps by competing for cationic sites. This study also suggests that it is unlikely that heparin bonding confers reduced surface thrombogenicity by virtue of the ability to leach off that surface and that further studies in heparin bonding or other surface modification should consider the antiplatelet effect which can easily be studied in vitro.

Blood Platelets↗
PubMed1970

Genetic control of the cell-division cycle in yeast. I. Detection of mutants.

Time-lapse photomicroscopy has been utilized to detect temperature-sensitive yeast mutants that are defective in gene functions needed at specific stages of the cell-division cycle. This technique provides two types of information about a mutant: the time at which the defective gene function is normally performed, defined as the execution point, and the stage at which cells collect when the function is not performed, defined as the termination point. Mutants carrying lesions in three genes that control the cell-division cycle are described. All three genes, cdc-1, cdc-2, and cdc-3, execute early in the cell cycle at about the time of bud initiation, but differ in their termination points. Cells carrying the cdc-1 mutation terminate at the execution point, most cells ending up with a tiny bud that does not develop further. Cells carrying the cdc-2 mutation terminate at mitosis. Cells carrying the cdc-3 mutation are defective in cell separation but show no definite termination point since other processes of the cell cycle, such as bud initiation and nuclear division, continue despite the block in cell separation.

Cell Division↗
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Under-coding in Australia limits the performance of DRG groupers.

The Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system is now used extensively in Australia to classify acute inpatients for many applications, including payments to hospitals. The quality of the inpatient separation data affects the performance of the DRG version, especially its predictive validity. Data from the State of Maryland, in the United States, contain more secondary diagnosis and procedure codes than Australian data. A comparison of the performance of DRG versions using data from Australia and Maryland allowed us to answer the following research question: What impact did these additional codes have on the performance of the DRGs? The best performance in predictive validity (R2) was obtained using the Maryland data no matter which DRG version was used. Casemix-adjusted code counts showed that more diagnoses were coded in Maryland. The most plausible reason for this was that conditions were not being recorded comprehensively by doctors in the medical record in Australia.

Abstracting and Indexing↗