Acknowledgements I wish to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Johan van Benthem and Sonja Smets. They have been excellent guides both through the technical intricacies and the philosophical subtleties that I encountered during my research. I would particularly like to thank Johan for badgering me to always keep in mind the big picture and to Sonja for her day-today supervision and careful ...

Brunken, Richard C., Joseph K. Perloff, Johannes Czernin, Roxana Campisi, Susan Purcell, Pamela D. Miner, John S. Child, and Heinrich R. Schelbert. Myocardial perfusion reserve in adults with cyanotic congenital heart disease. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 289: H1798–H1806, 2005. First published July 8, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01309.2004.—In patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease ...

This introduction to the special issue provides a context for the contributing articles. for readers who are not familiar with cognitive load theory (CLT), it provides a very brief description of assumptions regarding memory systems and learning processes, different types of cognitive load (intrinsic, extraneous, and germane), and design implications. Whereas traditional CLT research focused on...

5 Correspondence: Roxana Duda 1 Calistrat Grozovici Str., 2 District, Bucharest, Romania e-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Introduction. Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis is an important and complex disease characterized by a persistent inflammatory process involving the sinonasal mucosa, representing a serious health problem and economic challenge, with pathogenic mechanisms st...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank many people who helped and encouraged me with this work. My advisor, Joachim Rosenthal, worked with me long and patiently so that I could produce this dissertation. My committee members, Heide Gl using-L uerren, Alan Howard, and Juan Migliore, made many suggestions that have improved this work greatly. My academic \siblings", Brian Allen, Roxana Smarandach...

TOPIC: Lung Cancer TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary sequestration is the second most common pulmonary congenital abnormality and rarely associated with malignancy. We present a case of young woman hemoptysis found to have two rare concurrent lung pathologies: carcinoid tumor within sequestration. CASE PRESENTATION: 21 year old female presents following an episode sudden onset h...

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