OBJECTIVE To report on the effectiveness of an initiative to reduce deaths from sudden cardiac arrest occurring in busy public places. SETTING 110 such places identified from ambulance service data as high risk sites. PATIENTS 172 members of the public who developed cardiac arrest at these sites between April 2000 and March 2004. 20,592 defibrillator months' use is reported, representing on...

background: this paper investigated the effect of daylight on morning and night melatonin, subjective general health using ghq questionnaire, sleepiness and alertness on elderly who lived in nursing houses. methods: nineteen nursing home residents participated voluntarily. they exposed to daylight from 9 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 5 p.m. for 6 wk. the level of melatonin in the morning and at nigh...

in islamic civilization, rhetoric is the product of a great attempt to find out the secrets of quranic language; nevertheless, the achievements of such studies have been mechanically applied to persian which, compared to arabic, has a different linguistic system and literary conventions. this approach has brought about problems in defining literary terms, internal rhythm being one of them. this...

The nucleus reticularis pontis oralis (RPO) is a reticular structure important for the regulation of paradoxical sleep (PS). However, the data concerning the relation between the RPO and the main tonic indicator of PS, hippocampal theta rhythm, are contradictory: although electrical or cholinergic stimulation of the RPO evoked well-synchronized theta activity, the electrolytic lesion of the str...

PURPOSE Research has shown that hand gestures affect comprehension and production of speech at semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic levels for both native language and second language (L2). This study investigated a relatively less explored question: Do hand gestures influence auditory learning of an L2 at the segmental phonology level? METHOD To examine auditory learning of phonemic vowel leng...

the concept of “form of literary work” highly significant in formalism depends on the two following suggestions. 1) any part of literature, from word to speech, must be studied and known on the basis of its relationship with other parts or constitutes. thus, recognition of structural or original foundation of the works of art is the most important function of any given literary research. 2)...

A 55 year old male with a history of frequent symptomatic episodes of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) for four years was referred to us for catheter ablation. He had earlier tried flecainide and sotalol. However he was unresponsive to both of them. The echocardiogram was normal. Figure 1, left panel demonstrates his baseline electrocardiogram. The relatively slow rate and regularity of this...

The neuropeptide, red pigment concentrating hormone (RPCH), strengthened the inhibitory synapse from the lateral pyloric (LP) neuron to the pyloric dilator (PD) neurons in the pyloric network of the stomatogastric ganglion (STG) of the lobster, Homarus americanus. RPCH produced several-fold increases in the amplitude of both action potential-mediated and non-impulse-mediated transmission that p...

The $\beta$ decay of the neutron-rich $^{134}$In and $^{135}$In was investigated experimentally in order to provide new insights into nuclear structure tin isotopes with magic proton number $Z=50$ above $N=82$ shell. $\beta$-delayed $\gamma$-ray spectroscopy measurement performed at ISOLDE facility CERN, where indium were selectively laser-ionized on-line mass separated. Three $\beta$-decay bra...