The increase in the incidence of ischaemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in both high- and low-income countries necessitates the development of myocardial salvaging/protection interventions, to be applied alongside standard reperfusion therapies. Although the phenomenon of ischaemic preconditioning (IPC) is associated with the desired protective capacity, the necessity of ...

Fiber optic gyroscopes (FOGs), previously the low cost equivalent to other technologies such as ring laser gyroscopes (RLG), have some fresh competition. Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes are beginning to take market share away from traditional FOG applications. Specifically, antenna array stabilization, agricultural machine control, and general vehicle navigation are the battlegr...

In 1995 the Beijing Conference on Women identified gender mainstreaming as a key area for action. Policies to effect gender mainstreaming have since been widely adopted. This special issue of Compare looks at research on how gender mainstreaming has been used in government education departments, schools, higher education institutions, international agencies and NGOs . In this introduction we fi...

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Anne M. Aquila, APRN Vascular Program Coordinator Hospital of Saint Raphael New Haven, Connecticut Venous thrombosis involving the deep veins is a major US health problem that affects over 2.5 million people annually. The most serious complication of a deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is pulmonary embolism (PE), which is associated with 50,000 to 200,000 deaths each year. DVT and PE are often silen...

Four lines of evidence support a central role for H. pylori and PUD: (1) the natural history of H. pylori infection, (2) epidemiologic data, (3) outcomes after cure of H. pylori infection in patients with PUD, and (4) the frequent development of gastric ulcers in H. pylori-infected Mongolian gerbils. With so much circumstantial evidence and with Koch's postulates arguably fulfilled for a direct...

s 22nd Conf. Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM 90) 933–936 (Japanese Sociecty of Applied Physics, Tokyo, 1990). 24. Terashima, T. et al. Reflection high-energy electron diffraction oscillations during epitaxial growth of high-temperature superconducting oxides. Phys.Rev. Lett. 65, 2684–2687 (1990).25. Kawasaki, M. et al. Atomic control of the SrTiO3 crystal surface. Science 266,<l...

The aim of the present study was to investigate how spatial attention influences directional manual and saccadic reaction times. Two experiments were carried out. In experiment 1 subjects were instructed to perform pointing responses toward targets that were located either in the same or the opposite hemifield with respect to the hemifield in which an imperative stimulus was presented. In exper...

We attempt to determine the egocentric reference frame used in directing saccades to remembered targets when landmark-based (exocentric) cues are not available. Specifically, we tested whether memory-guided saccades rely on a retina-centered frame, which must account for eye movements that intervene during the memory period (thereby accumulating error) or on a head-centered representation that ...

Received 25 October 1991 . Abstract. Solid state lasers have undergone a renaissance since the development of reliable and cheap laser diodes which can be used as pump sources. The result is compact, eflicient laser sources which are attractive for a wide range of applications. This review summarizes the properties of laser diodes which are advantageous for pumping solid state lasers and descri...