' of military service, his long series ; of prison sentences, interspersed ; with chaotic liaisons with women, r his virtual unemployability, inability to make lasting relationships, and finally his death at 40 as a result of swallowing pins?but not before he had achieved some notoriety through a series of autobiographical monologues on the B.B.C. Third Programme. Although the story reaches poi...

Inconsistency in the framework of general residuated logic programs can be, somehow, decomposed in two notions: incoherence and instability. In this work, we focus on the measure of instability of normal residuated programs. Some measures were already provided and initial results obtained in terms of the amount of information that have to be discarded in order to recover stability; in this pape...

We present a case report of a four-year-old boy with torcicollis and trismus after acute otitis media. Grisel Syndrome diagnosis in association with temporo-mandibular reactive arthritis was admitted, leading to early conservative treatment. GS should be suspected in a child presenting with torticollis after an upper respiratory tract infection or an ENT surgical procedure. The association with...

The aim of the Semantic Web is to make information on the World Wide Web more accessible using machine-readable meta-data. In this context, the need for explicit models of semantic information (terminologies and background knowledge) in order to support information exchange has been widely acknowledged by the research community. Several different ways of describing information semantics have be...

structural coupling between alpha and beta cells (4), we wonder whether the paradoxical behavior here disclosed may not be somehow related to a functional uncoupling of these cells as the result of calcium deprivation (15). If so, the present protocol might prove useful for further studies on the significance of intercellular bridging in the physiology and pathology of islet tissue. VIVIANE LEC...

Sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (VT) after valve surgery is uncommon. Cases of focal VT or bundle-branch re-entry after aortic valve surgery have been reported. We present the case of a 60 year-old patient with an incessant outflow tract VT early after aortic valve replacement. We suggest the disease process affecting the valve and adjacent area, and/or the surgical procedure,...

effect of these poems, as well as the two entitled "barbiturate ingestion," is to lessen somehow the significance that we as physicians ascribe to death while at the same time broadening our understanding of it. Equally important in creating an ironic tone is the style of the poetry with its sharp juxtaposition of medical terminology and human emotion, each serving to undercut the solemnity but...

ion (as is often the case in delinquent acts committed against property), the awareness of the victim’s existence is weakened. Internalized norms and anticipations of the reactions of others must somehow be activated, if they are to serve as guides for behaviour; and it is possible that a diminished awareness of the victim plays an important part in determining whether or not this process is se...

This paper provides an insight into different structures of a special polynomial sequence of binomial type in higher dimensions with values in a Clifford algebra. The elements of the special polynomial sequence are homogeneous hypercomplex differentiable (monogenic) functions of different degrees and their matrix representation allows to prove their recursive construction in analogy to the comp...

difference is the financial weakness of universities. The lack of centrally administered resources makes it much harder for universities in the UK to foster new interdisciplinary research areas, and often forces labs to do almost everything for themselves, which can result in considerable inefficiencies. For biomedical research in the UK to remain competitive, the financial health of the major ...