A report that Gallup released Friday showed the average time worked by full-time employees has ticked up to 46.7 hours a week, or nearly a full extra eight-hour day. Just 40 percent of Americans who work full time say they clock the standard 40 hours a week. Another 50 percent say they work more than that.
The direct Coombs test is used to detect these antibodies or complement proteins that are bound to the surface of red blood cells; a blood sample is taken and the RBCs are washed (removing the patient's own plasma) and then incubated with anti-human globulin (also known as Coombs reagent).
An indirect object, which goes by the French name complÃ©ment d'objet indirect, (COI), is an object in a sentence affected by the action of the transitive verb. For instance, in Je donnes du lait Ã  mon chat, the indirect object is the milk (lait)--it is what is affected when the subject (je) feeds the direct object (mon chat). Indirect Object Pronouns Indirect objects can also be replaced with pronouns, including: