M y half-told lie is the claim that Melissa chose me as her research advisor. But with only a modest effort, you could paw through the thousands of emails on my server and find the one in which I recruited her to pursue a project on civilizing the Internet. Yet as it is only half a lie, the half-truth is the fact that she appeared on my doorstep unannounced two years ago and asked how she might...

Pethidine, first used in 1940, has retained its position as the most widely used obstetrical analgesic (Burt, 1971 ; Jaffe & Martin, 1975; ODonoghue, 1971 ; O'Driscoll etal., 1973; Rosen, 1971). The metabolismof pethidine in the pregnant woman gives rise to norpethidine, pethidinic acid and norpethidinic acid, and conjugated pethidinic acid and norpethidinic acid respectively. A simple t.1.c. p...

Current tools for Linguistic Engineering (LE) do not completely fit the requirements for scale development and deployment of real applications. What seems to lack in the available tools is a comprehensive study of user needs. This is a real limitation in a field where people with very different backgrounds (from computer scientists to linguists) are involved. To avoid such a shortcoming we adop...

Empirical and observational data were collected from 31 sets made from a tuna purse seine vessel during the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation’s (ISSF) WCPO bycatch reduction research cruise. Simultaneously, skipjack (Katsuwonis pelamis), yellowfin (Thunnus albacares), and bigeye (T. obesus) tuna and silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) were implanted with pressure sensing acous...

The facial musculature may be the site of a great variety of involuntary movements, often of doubtful nature and obscure causation. One form was sharply delineated both by clinical description and probable pathogenesis by Andermann, Cosgrove, LloydSmith, Gloor, and McNaughton (1961). These authors drew attention to the condition of facial myokymia of which they described four cases of their own...

BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent comorbid complications in COPD. Breathing techniques can improve anxiety and depression in subjects hospitalized due to COPD exacerbation. We conducted a randomized clinical study using two groups. The sample comprised 46 male patients aged 67-86 years hospitalized with acute COPD exacerbation. Patients were randomly and equally divided in...

Ultrasonic teclmiques have been used to directly and non-intrusively measure the circulation of free surface vortices. All experiments were performed in a vertical cylindrical tank with a central drain and a tangential inlet The circulation was measured on a closed triangular path by measuring the difference in upstream and downstream transit-times. Circulation was measured as a function of the...

A nswer: Dyspnea (breathlessness), an unpleasant awareness of breathing, is a subjective experience. This symptom is all too common, with reports of more than 70% of patients with advanced cancer experiencing this symptom (Ripamonti, 1999). Unfortunately, the mechanisms that lead to dyspnea are not well understood. Patients’ self-report of dyspnea is the best indicator of its presence and level...

The use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in the management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is now supported by a number of randomised controlled trials. It has been shown to reduce intubation rates, 3–5 mortality, 2–5 and length of stay. 4 It has the advantage that it can be applied intermittently, avoids the need for sedation, and allows the patient to e...

Distribution and abundance of fishes associated with Sargassum mats in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico were examined off northern (Galveston) and southern (Port Aransas) Texas from May–August, 2000. A total of 36 species (17 families) was identified from larval purse seine collections. Individuals from seven species composed over 97% of the catch: planehead filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Linnae...