Shocking Liver

Why shocking might be not shocking enough.

Sudden cardiac death remains the single most frequent cause of mortality in the industrialized world [1]. Indeed, approximately every 100 s somebody dies suddenly in the United States alone [2]. Most frequently, ventricular fibrillation (VF) associated with acute myocardial ischemia or infarction is the cause of circulatory collapse [1]. When untreated, VF is lethal within minutes because the a...

Shocking localization

The bud is all in the timing new study by Schenkman et al. on page 829 reveals that the subcellular localization of yeast budding proteins can be determined by the time the genes are expressed. The genes BUD8 and BUD9 are required for establishment of the bipolar budding pattern in normal diploid cells, in which both poles are specified as potential bud sites. Although the two proteins are simi...

Ureilite Graphite: Shocking Implications

Shocking Policy Coefficients

This paper proposes an empirical framework to study the effects of a policy regime change defined as an unpredictable and permanent change in the policy parameters. In particular I show how to make conditional forecast and perform impulse response functions and counterfactual analysis. As an application, the effects of changes in fiscal policy rules in the US are investigated. I find that discr...

A "shocking" case rectified.

Journal: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology Manuscript ID: PACE-13-0055.R1 Wiley Manuscript type: Device Rounds Date Submitted by the Author: n/a Complete List of Authors: Van Heuverswyn, Frederic; Ghent University Hospital, Heart Center Timmers, Liesbeth; Ghent University Hospital, Heart Center Combes, Matthieu; Ghent University Hospital, Heart Center Stroobandt, Roland; Ghent University Ho...