In the in vivo anesthetized adult cat model, multiple patterns of inspiratory motor discharge have been recorded in response to chemical stimulation and focal hypoxia of the pre-Bötzinger complex (pre-BötC), suggesting that this region may participate in the generation of complex respiratory dynamics. The complexity of a signal can be quantified using approximate entropy (ApEn) and multiscale e...

The concept of symbiotic niceness illustrates a mutually shared advantage in the nurse-patient relationship. This relationship is premised on the co-production of niceness through the doing of psychosocial care. This paper presents an account of 'symbiotic niceness' produced in palliative care nurses' talk. The data are collected from two hospices and one general hospital for the dying. The ana...

The secretion of anterior-pituitary hormones is subject to negative feedback. Whether negative feedback evolves dynamically over 24 h is not known. Conventional experimental paradigms to test this concept may induce artifacts due to nonphysiological feedback. These limitations might be overcome by a noninvasive methodology to quantify negative feedback continuously over 24 h without disrupting ...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to analyse if young students could be substantive participants in a healthpromoting school project. The specific aims were to analyse the changes the students proposed in their school environment, how these changes were prioritized by a school health committee and to discuss the students' proposals and the changes from a health and gender perspective. STUDY DESIGN An in...

BACKGROUND Little is known about parathyroid gland function in patients receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN). OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine whether parathyroid gland function is abnormal in TPN recipients. DESIGN Six patients with a mean (+/-1 SD) age of 45.5 +/- 8.0 y who had been receiving TPN for 18.7 +/- 2. 8 y underwent bone biopsy, bone mass measurements with dual-ene...

The publication of this special issue is a special pleasure for me since I have been carrying out research on the periodic system of the elements for some years. Whereas many readers may have first become intrigued by chemistry after seeing some striking demonstration in their childhood, or by playing around with a chemistry set, others like myself may have been taken by the elegance and comple...

It has been repeatedly proposed to expand the scope for SETI, and one of the suggested alternatives to radio is the biological media. Genomic DNA is already used on Earth to store nonbiological information. Though smaller in capacity, but stronger in noise immunity is the genetic code. The code is a flexible mapping between codons and amino acids, and this flexibility allows modifying the code ...

The clinical hallmark of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is episodic hemoglobinuria, and it was this feature that captured the attention of European physicians in the latter half of the 19th century, resulting in careful observational studies that established PNH as an entity distinct from paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria and march hemoglobinuria. Curiosity about the etiology of the noc...

The leading method of physical therapy for children with Goldenhar syndrome is the specialization socialization and communication skills.
 Goldehar's genetically heterogeneous, develops spontaneously characterized by underdevelopment auricles, deformation abnormal location, macrostomia, anomalies palate, interspinal tongue, additional frenulums. Tasks therapy: increasing working capacity b...

Shah, N., W. S. Evans, and J. D. Veldhuis. Actions of estrogen on pulsatile, nyctohemeral, and entropic modes of growth hormone secretion. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 45): R1351–R1358, 1999.—The neuroendocrine mechanisms by which estradiol drives growth hormone (GH) secretion in the human are poorly defined. Here we investigate estrogen’s specific regulation of th...