The question of whether private investors can discriminate between the risk taken by banks is empirically investigated by testing the risk sensitivity of European banks’ subordinated notes and debentures (SND) spreads. A unique dataset of spreads, ratings, accounting and market measures of bank risk is used for a sample of SND issued during the 1991-2000:Q1 period. Moody’s Bank Financial Streng...

Meeting the oral health care needs of the growing population of people with special health care needs (SHCN) starts with dental students' acquisition of sound knowledge and development of clinical competence at the predoctoral level. The aim of this study was to review the level of undergraduate education in Special Needs Dentistry (SND) in Malaysian and Australian dental schools. The deans of ...

We studied the changes in inferior cardiac sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) produced by aspiration or chemical inactivation (muscimol microinjection) of lobule IX (uvula) of the posterior vermis of the cerebellum in baroreceptor-denervated and baroreceptor-innervated cats anesthetized with urethane. Autospectral analysis was used to decompose SND into its frequ...

In the appendicular skeleton, substantial evidence demonstrates that somatosensory input from deep tissues including limb muscles and joints elicits somatosympathetic reflexes. Much less is known about the presence and organization of these reflexes from the axial skeleton. We determined if mechanical loading of the lumbar spine and lumbar paraspinal muscle irritation reflexively affects postga...

OBJECTIVE To compare the surgical outcomes of robotic selective neck dissection (SND) with total thyroidectomy and conventional transcervical SND with total thyroidectomy. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING University tertiary care facility. SUBJECT AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 66 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with SND (≥3 levels of II-V) and bilat...

Currently, a common difficulty in diagnosing failures within Pratt & Whitney’s FlOO-PW-100/200 gas turbine engine occurs when a fault in one part of a system, comprising an engine, airframe, test cell, and Automated Ground Engine Test Set (AGETS) equipment, is manifested as an out-ofbounds parameter elsewhere in that system. In such cases, the normal procedure is to run AGETS self-diagnostics o...

in Pratt & Whitney’s F100-PW-100/200 gas turbine engine occurs when a fault in one part of a system—comprising an engine, an airframe, a test cell, and automated ground engine test set (AGETS) equipment—is manifested as an out-ofbound parameter elsewhere in the system. In such cases, the normal procedure is to run AGETS self-diagnostics on the abnormal parameter. However, because the self-diagn...

BACKGROUND The repolarization properties of the crista terminalis (CT) cells have not been elucidated in patients with sinus node disease (SND). In the present study a new technique of recording the monophasic action potential (MAP) at the CT was used to examine the repolarization of the right atrium (RA) in SND patients. METHODS AND RESULTS Symptomatic SND (n=13) patients and age-, sex-match...

BACKGROUND Menopause heralds a dramatic increase in incident hypertension, suggesting a protective effect of estrogen on blood pressure (BP). In female rats, estrogen has been shown to decrease sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) and BP. SND, however, has not been recorded during estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) in humans. Methods and Results-In 12 normotensive postmenopausal women, we conducte...