August Wiggers. Nekrolog

Circulation Research: reflections on the founding editor, Carl J. Wiggers.

The opportunity provided me by Dr Marbán, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Circulation Research, to reflect on my early contacts with the journal, naturally brings to mind 1953, the year of its founding. It was an exciting time for cardiovascular research. The United States had largely recovered from the trauma of World War II, and an internal enemy, cardiovascular disease, had re...

Expanding application of the Wiggers diagram to teach cardiovascular physiology.

Dr. Carl Wiggers' careful observations have provided a meaningful resource for students to learn how the heart works. Throughout the many years from his initial reports, the Wiggers diagram has been used, in various degrees of complexity, as a fundamental tool for cardiovascular instruction. Often, the various electrical and mechanical plots are the novice learner's first exposure to simulated ...

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August 2007

August 2001

In this paper, we present new estimates of the effect of changes in workers’ compensation benefits on benefit duration and application frequency. Using administrative data for the state of California, we estimate the duration and frequency effects resulting from two increases in temporary disability benefits occurring during the mid 1990s. We employ a quasi-experimental research design that exp...