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F Meissner

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[Memory performance and instruction effects in schizophrenia. A comparative study of chronic schizophrenic patients and healthy probands].

34 chronically schizophrenic persons were matched with 34 healthy control participants according to age, level of education, and sex and received memory tests (short-term, priming, working, prospective, episodic, source and semantic long-term memory) and tests of attention and intelligence. Patients performed worse on all tests. The patients' memory deficits compared with controls are nearly one standard deviation greater than the differences in attention and intelligence. The deficits are smaller for priming and semantic long-term memory than for short-term, working, prospective, episodic, and source memory. After one short instruction all patients and controls received a repeat administration of the tests. Patients showed a lower, but also significant improvement for short-term, working, and prospective memory. We conclude that schizophrenia patients might suffer from specific memory deficits (specific vulnerability of strategic and thus of interference- or context-sensitive memory tasks) not attributable to more general psychopathologic symptoms.

Adult↗

Measurement of the spin asymmetry in the photoproduction of pairs of high- p(T) hadrons at HERMES

We present a measurement of the longitudinal spin asymmetry A(||) in photoproduction of pairs of hadrons with high transverse momentum p(T). Data were accumulated by the HERMES experiment using a 27.5 GeV polarized positron beam and a polarized hydrogen target internal to the HERA storage ring. For h(+)h(-) pairs with p(h(1))(T)>1.5 GeV/c and p(h(2))(T)>1.0 GeV/c, the measured asymmetry is A(||) = -0. 28+/-0.12(stat)+/-0.02(syst). This negative value is in contrast to the positive asymmetries typically measured in deep inelastic scattering from protons, and is interpreted to arise from a positive gluon polarization.

Journal Article↗

Critical care medicine in cyperspace: Internet resources and techniques for the intensivist.

The internet, is an informational tool of impressive proportions and capabilities. New software developments puts the use of this informational technology into the hands of all physicians. The use of Internet informational resources allows the intensivist to stay abreast of new developments in critical care medicine, communicate in a matter of seconds with colleagues half a world away, acquire medically related software, access remote database structures, obtain continuing medical education, and in the near future to "see' patients and obtain physiological data in real time. This tutorial will introduce the Internet and it's current tool suite.

Computer Communication Networks↗

Sequence and identification of the nucleotide binding site for the elongation factor Tu from Thermus thermophilus HB8.

Two structural genes for the Thermus thermophilus elongation factor Tu (tuf) were identified by cross-hybridization with the tufA gene from E. coli. The sequence of one of these tuf genes, localized on a 6.6 kb Bam HI fragment, was determined and confirmed by partial protein sequencing of an authentic elongation factor Tu from T. thermophilus HB8. Expression of this tuf gene in E. coli minicells provided a low amount of immuno-precipitable thermophilic EF-Tu. Affinity labeling of the T. thermophilus EF-Tu and sequence comparison with homologous proteins from other organisms were used to identify the guanosine-nucleotide binding domain.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

[Bengmark spleen transposition in children].

After a historical review of surgical therapy of portal hypertension experiences are reported with the technique of spleen transposition according to Bengmark in a group of six children. Two thirds of the spleen are removed and the rest is implanted into the abdominal wall. This causes development of subcutaneous portosystemic anastomosis. The method is a true alternative to portosystemic shunt operations.

Abdomen↗

[Iliopsoas hemorrhage in hemophilic children].

Sixty-nine children with hemophilia were treated in our center between 1968 and 1983. About 1 per cent of hemorrhagic complications were bleedings localized in the iliopsoas muscle of 12 patients ranging in age from 9 to 15 years. The typical sign of the bleeding is a tight, palpable tumour above the inguinal fold. Today mass bleedings of the muscle with retroperitoneal localization are diagnosed safely by help of computer tomography or sonography. Psoas muscle bleedings in children are characterized by a high recurrence rate (41.5%) and often by an associated damage of the femoral nerve. Surgery was necessary only in 1 patient where a huge psoas hematoma with cystic transformations had to be removed. High substitution doses led to a complete recovery within 3 weeks in all other children.

Adolescent↗