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Alloalbuminemia associated with myeloma
No full textAlloalbuminemia occurring together with paraproteinemia in a case of proven myelomatosis is described. The clinical and laboratory findings of this case are listed. The importance of the reported case is emphasized
Stability of tumor markers CA 19.9, CA 125, and CA 15.3 in serum obtained from plain tubes and tubes containing thixotropic gel separator
No full textAlloalbuminemia associated with myeloma
No full textAlloalbuminemia occurring together with paraproteinemia in a case of proven myelomatosis is described. The clinical and laboratory findings of this case are listed. The importance of the reported case is emphasized
Standardization with synthetic 22-kDa monomer human growth hormone reduces discrepancies between two monoclonal immunoradiometric assay kits
No full textDiscrepancies among different methods for assaying human growth hormone have been described in various studies. The two major sources of discordant results are the heterogeneity of the antibodies and the different standardization bases used by the assay manufacturers. We propose standardizing assays with 22-kDa biosynthetic monomer human growth hormone diluted with the diluents supplied by the kit manufacturers. In a study of two monoclonal immunoradiometric assays (Hybritech, specific for the 22-kDa monomer; Sorin, recognizing also a 20-kDa variant hormone), standardization with 22-kDa monomer human growth hormone reduced by 63% the differences in results for 44 serum samples from children. The use of 22-kDa human growth hormone as a common standard, highly pure and easily available in large quantities, could help limit the interpretative problems in growth diagnostics
Prostate-specific antigen is not increased in young men by ultraendurance sport performances
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
2D Modelling of Unsteady Morphodynamical Processes
No full textMorphodynamical processes are usually strongly unsteady and characterized by a behaviour not explainable using the hypothesis of immediate adaption of solid transport to flow condition. Such consideration stimulated in the last two decades the formulation of many models these not assume the instantaneous adaption hypothesis. The models are based both on two-layers and two-phases approach; moreover recently some of the Authors proposed a depth-integrated two-phase morphodynamical model and demonstrated its unconditionally hyperbolicity. This property, not shared by two-layers models, permits more soundly numerical integration of the model. In the paper capabilities of the proposed model in reproducing transients phenomena is investigated. Comparisons of numerical results against experimental literature data of a dam removal process by overtopping is presented. The model results appear satisfactory; in fact principal qualitative and quantitative agreement between numerical results and experimental data are observed. Moreover it is demonstrate that using an immediate adaption model such agreement cannot been obtained
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