BACKGROUND Electrocardiogram (ECG) is commonly used in diagnosis of heart diseases, including many life-threatening disorders. We aimed to assess skills in ECG interpretation among Polish medical students and to analyze the determinants of these skills. MATERIAL AND METHODS Undergraduates from all Polish medical schools were asked to complete a web-based survey containing 18 ECG strips. Quest...

In 1956, Brauer showed that there is a partitioning of the pregular conjugacy classes of a group according to the p-blocks of its irreducible characters with close connections to the block theoretical invariants. In a previous paper, the first explicit block splitting of regular classes for a family of groups was given for the 2-regular classes of the symmetric groups. Based on this work, here ...

data type interface class (Figure 7.13). There is an explicit abstract base class for each data type, from which both the regular and the recoverable version are derived. derive recoverable from regular versions (Figure 7.14). We use the regular classes as base classes for the recoverable versions. 7.4. DETAILED DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION 147

BACKGROUND The role of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in the cardiovascular regulation is of primal importance. Since it has been associated with adverse conditions such as cardiac arrhythmias, sudden death, sleep disorders, hypertension and obesity. OBJECTIVES The present study aimed to investigate the impact of recreational football practice on the autonomic cardiac function of male chi...

Regular participation in organized youth sports does not ensure adequate exposure to skill- and health-related fitness activities, and sport training without preparatory conditioning does not appear to reduce risk of injury in young athletes. Current trends indicate that widespread participation in organized youth sports is occurring at a younger age, especially in girls. Current public health ...

This paper describes the interaction among language resources for an adequate concept annotation of domain texts in several languages. The architecture includes domain ontology, domain texts, language specific lexicons, regular grammars and disambiguation rules. This is considered the preparatory phase for the integration of a semantic search facility in Learning Management Systems. The impleme...

The authors tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview--preparatory power posing--would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e., expansive, open) poses or low-power (i.e., contractive, closed) poses, and then prepared and delivered a speech to 2 evaluators as part of a mock job interview. All inte...

Boulton Jones, J. M., Cameron, J. S., Bewick, M., Ogg, C. S., Meadow, S. R., and Ellis, F. G. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 457. Treatment of terminal renal failure in children by home dialysis and transplantation. Eleven children, aged 6 to 17 years, suffering from irreversible renal failure, were treated by regular haemodialysis. This was preparatory to renal transplantation i...