evaluate at rest the shortand long-term effects of oral nifedipine (N) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Design and Setting: A prospective study with ten consecu tive cases during two years in a setting of a district acute hospital. Thtients or Partkipants: Seven patients with advanced COPD and three with severe lung fibrosis (LF) during a period of stable condition. Three patients ...

it is proved here that if $g$ is a locally graded group satisfying the minimal condition on subgroups which are not locally supersoluble, then $g$ is either locally supersoluble or a vcernikov group. the same conclusion holds for locally finite groups satisfying the weak minimal condition on non-(locally supersoluble) subgroups. as a consequence, it is shown that any infinite locally graded gro...

Motivated by recent observations of high-velocity, highly ionized winds in several QSOs, models of purely continuum-driven winds launched from ∼ 200 GMBH/c2 are presented. Launching conditions are investigated, as well as the observational signatures for a variety of initial conditions and illuminating continua. While we verify that continuum-driven, highly-ionized outflows reach the observed v...

In this paper we propose a substructuring preconditioner for solving three-dimensional elliptic equations with strongly discontinuous coefficients. The new preconditioner can be viewed as a variant of the classical substructuring preconditioner introduced in Bramble, Pasiack and Schatz (1989), with simpler coarse solvers. We will show that, although the preconditioned system may not have a good...

BACKGROUND The 39-item Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) is the most thoroughly validated and extensively used self-report measure for the assessment of health-related quality of life in people with Parkinson's (PwP). Given the extent of its use and increasing emphasis on electronic data capture, an e-based version of the PDQ-39, the ePDQ, has recently been developed. The aim of this s...