We would like to congratulate Gentile and Siobal on their review article concerning the recent advances in equipment for the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia,1 in which they reported different techniques to clear the subglottic secretions that accumulate during intubation. At the time of extubation, they described applying a positive pressure gradient just prior to cuff deflation. T...

By "paradox" I mean an apparent—and, in this case, real—inconsistency between theory (our Systematic understanding of whistle-blowing) and the facts (what we actually know, or think we know, about whistle-blowing). What concerns me is not a few anomalies, the exceptions that test a rule, but a flood of exceptions that seems to swamp the rule. This paper has four parts. The first states the stan...

To define three different types of Kui traditional healers, herbalists, blowing doctors and spirit healers, according to their range and methods of treatment. Surveys were conducted to identify traditional healers among a population of Kui villages in the southern part of Northeast Thailand. Criteria were established to select a sample group of thirty healers, ten of each type of healer. For ov...

The present paper describes two distinct behaviors relating to food processing and communication that were observed in a community of five separately housed groups of lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in captivity during two study periods one decade apart: (1) a food processing technique to separate wheat from chaff, the so-called puff-blowing technique; and (2) a male display used to ...

We classify weighted forests up to the blowing-up and blowing-down operations which are relevant for the study of algebraic surfaces. The word “graph” in this text means a finite undirected graph such that no edge connects a vertex to itself and at most one edge joins any given pair of vertices. A weighted graph is a graph in which each vertex is assigned an integer (called its weight). Two ope...

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A validation study is presented for a numerical code which calculates a two-dimensional steady-state solution for inviscid hypersonic flows in the presence of strong surface blowing. A higher-orde: Godunov-type finite-volume approach is used to discretize the inviscid Euler equations. Interface values of the state quantities are reconstructed nsing a monotone interpolation technique suggested b...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour with regard to whistle blowing as they progress through a modern undergraduate medical curriculum. DESIGN Cohort design. SETTING University of Glasgow Medical School. SUBJECTS A cohort of students entering Glasgow University's new learner-centred, integrated medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' pre- and po...