The Seventh Sin is the second adaptation of Painted Veil written by W. Somerset Maugham, and this paper exploits Kate Millet's sexual politics theory to analyze subtle variations power relationships in protagonist Carol's marriage, which supplies a new perspective understanding Maugham's Sin.

BACKGROUND Monitoring secular trends in blood pressure (BP) among children is important in predicting subsequent hypertension and cardiovascular disease. We investigated secular trends in BP using data from population-based annual screenings of Japanese schoolchildren. METHODS The participants were 10 894 children (all fourth graders between 1994 and 2010 and all seventh graders between 1997 ...

A 49-year-old man consulted our department 3 months after having several implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) shocks with subsequent syncope. A CRT-D device (Boston Scientific, Cognis 100-D) and a single-element subcutaneous array (Medtronic, model 6996 SQ) had been implanted 2 years previously for primary prevention of sudden cardiac death caused by symptomatic (New York Heart Associat...

We studied the variations in the ventral rami of 152 brachial plexuses in 77 Korean adults. Brachial plexus were composed mostly of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cervical nerves and the first thoracic nerve (77.0%). In 21.7% of the cases examined, the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cervical and the first thoracic nerves contributed to the plexus. A plexus composed of the fourth...

The Seventh-Day Adventist population abstains from smoking and drinking; about 50% follow a lac to-ovo-vegetanian diet; and most avoid the use of coffee, tea, hot condiments, and spices. Existing data on cancer mortality in Seventh-Day Adventists clearly document mortality rates that are 50 to 70% of general population rates for most cancer sites that are unrelated to smoking and drinking. Seve...

respect to our microbial communities. The authors do the field a service by making it very clear that there is much to be learned, and that even their published book is not absolute by virtue of being the latest news. In addition, the hand-drawn illustrations are appealing and contribute to perception that far from being immortalized in official, unchangeable textbook figures, the microbiome is...

he became a member of the General Medical Council. He is also one of the foundation Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners, but it is interesting to note that the College is allowed only two of the briefest of entries in this book; nothing could illustrate more vividly the division between the LMC/BMA/GMSC world of medical politics and the apolitical RCGP. But this book is not, a...

The annual PIMS Graduate Industrial Math Modelling Camp (GIMMC) is held in one of the PIMS universities as part of the PIMS industrial programme. It is part of PIMS' commitment to providing training for young mathematical scientists who are either pursing careers in academia or in industry. The goal of the GIMMC is to provide experience in the use of mathematical modelling as a problem-solving ...