Hypoparathyroidism is a heterogeneous clinical condition (Table I) (1). It manifests when parathyroid hormone (PTH) produced by parathyroid glands is unable to maintain normal extracellular fluid concentrations of calcium ions, for insufficient secretion or inadequate action on target tissues despite normal or high circulating levels of the hormone (pseudo-hypoparathy r o i d i s m) (1, 2). 1,2...

It has been shown recently that death of cells simultaneously exposed to ionizing radiation and static electric fields is substantially higher than in cells only irradiated, suggesting that a static electric field interferes with cell repair mechanisms. In the present work, T47D breast cancer cells were firstly irradiated with 1 and 2 Gy of gamma radiation, and then exposed to a SEF of 1250 V/c...

In their article "Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy" Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert start from concerns in contemporary educational debates about a growing lack of civic literacy. These complaints are raised both in the public sphere, in institutions of pedagogy, and in scholarship about the form, content, and function of civic literacy and civic education. Although there is an ongo...

An information system is not merely a container for documents; through the ways that resources are selected, organized, and made available to users, information systems themselves work as expressive media, enabling the communication of a specific point of view on the collected materials. By analyzing information systems themselves as documents, we can better understand how information systems c...

This article reviews the history of market research to argue that that discipline has seen a paradigm shift during the second half of the 20th century. Originally market research developed as an integral element to the society-wide capitalist control revolution. Its aim was to contain the complexity of an increasingly mobile consumer demand in a number of pre-established categories. Since the 1...

The theory of performance feedback views decision makers as problem-solvers seeking to improve performance. By specifying how and when decision makers may instead seek to enhance their self-image by assessing performance as satisfactory, the model presented in this paper specifies boundaries on performance feedback theory’s critical prediction that low performance induces increased search, chan...