Critical issues in bioinformatics and computing.

This article provides an overview of the field of bioinformatics and its implications for the various participants. Next-generation issues facing developers (programmers), users (molecular biologists), and the general public (patients) who would benefit from the potential applications are identified. The goal is to create awareness and debate on the opportunities (such as career paths) and the challenges such as privacy that arise.

Personality in domestic cats.

Personality ratings of 196 cats were made by their owners using a 5-point Likert scale anchored by 1: not at all and 5: a great deal with 12 items: timid, friendly, curious, sociable, obedient, clever, protective, active, independent, aggressive, bad-tempered, and emotional. A principal components analysis with varimax rotation identified three intepretable components. Component I had high loadings by active, clever, curious, and sociable.

Analysis of spelling error patterns of individuals with complex communication needs and physical impairments.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between patterns of spelling error and related linguistic abilities of four persons with complex communication needs and physical impairments, compared to younger individuals without disabilities matched by spelling age. All participants completed a variety of spelling and linguistic tasks to determine overall spelling age, patterns of spelling errors, and abilities across phonemic, orthographic, and morphological awareness. Performance of the spelling-age matched pairs was similar across most of the phonemic, orthographic, and morphological awareness tasks.

College students' multiple stereotypes of lesbians: A cognitive perspective.

This paper examines stereotypes of lesbians held by college students. Multiple stereotypes are elicited from a free response trait listing task, followed by a sorting task. The results of the sorting task are submitted to cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling to reveal the complexity of cognitive representations of this group.

Effects on WAIS-III performance IQ (PIQ) and full scale IQ (FSIQ) when object assembly is substituted for each standard performance scale subtest.

According to the WAIS-III Administration and Scoring Manual, Object Assembly (OA) may be substituted for any spoiled Performance subtest. This assertion has not been evaluated in a clinical sample. The present investigation reports differences that resulted in Performance IQ (PIQ) and Full Scale IQ (FSIQ) when OA replaced each of the Performance subtests.

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III inter-subtest scatter: a comparison of brain-damaged patients and normal controls.

This study assessed the validity of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition (WAIS-III) inter-subtest scatter (as measured by the scaled score range) as an indication of cognitive impairment due to brain dysfunction. Participants were 174 individuals with documented brain damage. Means for age, education, and WAIS-III full-scale IQ were 49.

A computational study of sulfur bridged cyclooctatetraenophanes.

Calculations of several thiacyclooctatetraenophanes predicted, as part of their overall geometry, substantial flattening of the cyclooctatetraene (COT) structures relative to the tub conformation generally associated with the COT molecule. The COT structures were approximately parallel to each other and the interplanar distances were predicted to be within 2.787-2.

Substituing supplementary subtests for core subtests on reliability of WISC-IV Indexes and Full Scale IQ.

The effects of replacing core subtests with supplementary subtests on composite score reliabilities were evaluated for the WISC-IV Indexes and Full Scale IQ. When Wechsler's guidelines are followed, i.e.

Acceptance of male registered nurses by female registered nurses.

Purpose: To investigate attitudes of acceptance toward male registered nurses by female registered nurses.

Design: Randomized descriptive design using 105 female registered nurses from a large midwestern state in the US.

Methods: Data were collected using an attitude inventory and analyzed using t test, chi square, Spearman rho, Pearson correlation, Mann-Whitney U and multiple regression tests.

Dietetics: integration into modern clinical medicine.

Registered dietitians have unique expertise in foods and nutrition. They are able and willing to integrate diet and nutrition with modern clinical medicine for the betterment of your patients' health. The RD's services at present are often incompletely understood and underutilized.

Aureobasidium pullulans morphology: two adapted polysaccharide stains.

Morphological stages of Aureobasidium pullulans were investigated utilizing different media ingredients and were visualized by bright-field microscopy. A polysaccharide stain was developed to stain chlamydospores, cell walls, hyphae, and conidia, since current staining techniques do not reveal subcellular details to identify fungi, especially those that exhibit polysaccharide secretions.

Equipment and running surface alter sprint performance of college football players.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of football equipment and running surface on sprint performance in NCAA Division II football players (n = 68). Players were timed in the 40-yd sprint on an indoor rubberized track (Day 1) and on an outdoor, natural-grass football field (Day 2) wearing either regulation football equipment or shorts and a T-shirt. Each player was assigned randomly to perform 2 trials under each condition on each surface, and the average of the 2 trials was used for analysis.

Discrimination of healthy and brain-damaged elderly using the WAIS-R.

The authors evaluated the ability of WAIS-R variables to discriminate normal from brain-damaged persons 75 years of age and older. Fifty-four brain-damaged patients and 54 healthy elderly were matched on the variables of age, education, sex, and race. Significant level of performance differences emerged between the groups on all subtests and the three IQs.

The WASI matrix reasoning subtest: performance in traumatic brain injury, stroke, and dementia.

Previous research reported that the WAIS-III Matrix Reasoning (MR) subtest was insensitive to the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), learning disability, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This study was conducted to determine whether these findings generalize to the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) MR subtest and to explore the subtest's sensitivity to other brain disorders. When 81 brain-damaged patients completed the WASI, the MR subtest was the highest score in the profile.

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition Picture Arrangement subtest: impact of vertical administration.

We compared the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Third Edition Picture Arrangement (PA) scores via standard administration (SA) or vertical administration (VA). Fifty-seven college students were assigned to one of two conditions. Thirty SAs had means for age, education, and American College Testing (ACT) of 19.

Reliabilities of the WAIS-III for discrepancy scores: generalization to a clinical sample.

Internal consistency reliabilities for WAIS-III IQ, Index, and subtest discrepancy scores are provided for 100 men in a treatment program for substance abuse disorders. There were 63 Euro-Americans and 37 African Americans. Means for age, education, and Full Scale IQ were 46.

Brief screening indexes for malingering: A confirmation of Vocabulary minus Digit Span from the WAIS-III and the Rarely Missed Index from the WMS-III.

This study investigated the specificity of empirically derived screening measures for the detection of symptom exaggeration in persons with a diagnosis of alcohol abuse (n = 30), polysubstance abuse (n = 43), or head trauma (n = 27). The first measure evaluated was Vocabulary (V) minus Digit Span (DS) (Mittenberg, Theroux-Fichera, Zielinski, & Heilbronner, 1995); the second measure was the Rarely Missed Index (RMI) for the WMS-III Logical Memory subtest (Killgore & Della-Pietra, 2000). V-DS misclassified 0% of individuals in the alcohol abuse group, 2% of those in the polysubstance abuse group, and 0% of head injury cases.