Progress toward understanding the physiology of smooth muscle has been slow for several reasons. In most smooth muscle tissues, the cells are extremely small, electrically coupled to one another, often spontaneously active and complexed with large amounts of inelastic connective tissue. The technical problems posed by these factors are numerous and have been reviewed extensively (Tomita, 1970; ...

of a specific reaction, which in the normal person takes place as a result of the presence in the stomach of a specific factor in the food (extrinsic) and a factor in the gastric juice (intrinsic) (Castle, 1929; Castle et al., 1931). In pernicious ansemia, disturbances of the gastro-intestinal tract and of the central nervous system are associated. Neural (Smithburn and Zerfas, 1931; Goldhamer ...

In a previous communication (Mackie, 1938) we have reported observations upon the Shigella dysenteriae agglutinin curves in a group of patients presenting the intestinal pathology of chronic bacillary dysentery and bacteriologic or serologic evdence of infection by these organisms. Fluctuation of the titre curves in individual patients, the common finding of higher titres in the culture-negativ...

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and Jörg Roche This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online, mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is...

A REVIEW of the literature of the past 10 years shows little published work on the results ofsurgery in acute closed-angle glaucoma. This is rather surprising in view of the wider use of the classification into simple glaucoma and closedangle glaucoma (see, for example, Duke-Elder, 1955) and the better understanding of some of the mechanisms involved in the latter type. This has led to the use ...

A new technique for near-surface electromagnetic measurements is currently being developed Radic, 1994], which is based on purely magnetic measurements up to the MHz frequency range. Up to a factor the vertical derivatives of the horizontal magnetical elds can be used to replace the electrical elds in plane-wave methods. These derivatives are diicult to determine at low frequencies, but are lar...

Aims. Heating associated with non-equilibrium nuclear reactions in accreting neutron-star crusts is reconsidered, taking into account suppression of neutrino losses demonstrated recently by Gupta et al. Two initial compositions of the nuclear burning ashes, Ai = 56 and Ai = 106, are considered. Dependence of the integrated crustal heating on uncertainties plaguing pycnonuclear reaction models i...

S:1. DS Albrecht, P MacKie, BT Christian, KK Yoder. Differences in dopaminefunction in fibromyalgia. Submitted for the 10 International Symposium onFunctional Neuroreceptor Mapping of the Living Brain. Amsterdam, Netherlands,May 2014. 2. DS Albrecht, BG Oberlin, M Dzemidzic, CM Herring, JW Walters, KL Hile, SJO’Connor, DA Kareken, KK Yoder. Impulsive choice and alcohol-induc...

The ability to recognize what a colleague or subordinate is feeling and respond properly his emotions necessary in many areas, from trade community service. This especially important today's uncertainty pandemic. At the Global Nexus Conference on emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman stressed that managers must now look at relational side of leadership. same conference, Annie Mackie concluded ...

The double taxation of corporate income should discourage firms from incorporating. We investigate the extent to which the aggregate allocation of assets and taxable income in the U.S. between corporate and non-corporate firms responds to the size of this tax distortion during the period 1959–86. In theory, profitable firms should shift out of the corporate sector when the tax distortion is lar...