Subjective evaluation of a seal robot was conducted in exhibitions that were held in seven different countries: Japan, the UK, Sweden, Italy, South Korea, Brunei and the US. Surveys were administered to the visitors after interaction with the robot. To explore the differences among people's evaluations of the robot in the seven countries, statistical analysis was conducted in the data set obtained from over 1400 respondents. The subjective evaluation provided high scores on the whole, and the factors 'comfortable feeling like interacting with real animals' and 'favorable impression to encourage interaction' were extracted. The results showed that people in the UK, Sweden and Italy evaluated the robot highly in the first factor, and people in Japan and South Korea evaluated it highly in the second factor. We considered that the subjective evaluation of the seal robot was influenced by cultural differences of relationships with animals.

BACKGROUND Stent thrombosis is potentially lethal complication with huge economic burden. The role of insufficient response to antiplatelet therapy is still unclear reason for its occurrence. CASE REPORT We presented 54-year-old man with recurrent stent thrombosis on the 4th, 9th and 12th day after the primary percutaneous coronary intervention in spite of double antiaggregation therapy (aspirin+clopidogrel). All possible procedural causes were excluded and reimplantation of intracoronary stent was insufficient to resolve the problem, so four platelet tests were performed: flow cytometry, Platelet Function Analyzer-100 test, aggregometry, and determination of gene polymorphism for P2Y12 receptor (directly involved in the mechanism of thienopyridine), and GPIIbIIIa receptor (final receptor in aggregation). The patient was the carrier of the major haplotype H1H1 for P2Y12 receptor and minor A1A2 for GPIIbIIIa receptor. The results of all the performed tests showed insufficient antiplatelet effect of aspirin and sufficient response to thienopyridin (not to clopidogrel, but to ticlopidine). CONCLUSION Performance of platelet function tests is necessary in the case of major adverse cardiac events especially stent thrombosis, after implantation of intracoronary stent.