background: respiratory function in patients undergoing open heart surgery is disrupted after surgery.  patient education on managing complications can reduce occurrence or severity of them. a variety of educational tools has been introduced, but there are controversies about the most appropriate tools. aim: determine the effect of instructional videos on respiratory function of the patients af...

Warfarin is a critical medication that is broadly used for the treatment and prevention ofthromboembolic disorders. Due to warfarin’s narrow therapeutic index, it is crucial that patientsfollow an appropriate dosage regimen. Patient knowledge is one of the most important factorsto safe and effective use of warfarin. Due to the obvious risks of anticoagulants administration,<br...

This article engages with the longstanding debate over authorship of Scottish Militia pamphlet Sister Peg (1761). While previous evidence is born out rigorous historical research, a remains between whether Adam Ferguson or David Hume was author. uses computational stylometry to statistically investigate this question, aim complementing existing rather than overturning it. In doing it concludes ...

This paper aims to analyse both the refined devices of literary contamination and textual techniques that permeate Teacher Orators by Lucian Samosata, a pamphlet which attacks lack moderation certain fashionable members Second Sophistic. Besides evaluating Lucian’s criticism in an impartial way, this offers analysis relationship among dialogue itself other genres, such as theatre contemporary S...

Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts, was published in New York in 1973 by Simon and Schuster. Retitled from the original Women and Their Bodies, Our Bodies, Ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce women's ownership of their bodies. There have been eight editions of ...

In a recent “pamphlet” Shaked (2005) harshly criticizes two of our papers, Fehr and Schmidt (1999, 2003). This reply shows that Shaked's charges are not substantiated in any way. It points out several logical flaws in his arguments and shows that he grossly misquotes and misinterprets our papers. * This note is a reply to A. Shaked, “The Rhetoric of Inequity Aversion”, dated March 1, 2005. a) E...

Mathematician Claude Shannon was born in Michigan in 1916 and died in 2001. The approach to information and communication he laid out in his groundbreaking paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication, published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, and republished virtually unchanged in the pamphlet The Mathematical Theory of Communication he wrote with Warren Weaver the following year...

Our Bodies, Ourselves, a succession to a pamphlet of resources pulled from co-ops of women in and around Boston, Massachusetts, was published in New York in 1973 by Simon and Schuster. Retitled from the original Women and Their Bodies, Our Bodies, Ourselves was an effort by a group of educated, middle class women to reinforce women's ownership of their bodies. There have been eight editions of ...

Neurological impairment as discussed includes a range of disabilities referred to as neurological impairment: minimal brain dysfunction/damage, developmental disability, perceptual handicap, learning disability, hyperkinetic behavioral syndrome, and others. Defined are causes of neurological impairment and methods of diagnosis. Symptoms (characteristics) of impaired neurological functioning are...