Comics are powerful visual messages that convey immediate visceral meaning in ways that conventional texts often cannot. This article's authors created comic strips to teach anatomy more interestingly and effectively. Four-frame comic strips were conceptualized from a set of anatomy-related humorous stories gathered from the authors' collective imagination. The comics were drawn on paper and th...

Changes in the isometric tension of isolated strips of cutaneous, femoral, mesenteric, pulmonary, and muscle arteries and veins were recorded at 37°C in an organ bath. Acetylcholine (5 X 10~ and 10"' g/ml) caused relaxation of strips from the saphenous veins, the femoral veins, and all of the arteries after contraction by norepinephrine released from nerve terminals by electrical stimulation (2...

A 44-year–old woman underwent mitral valve and tricuspid valve (TV) replacement 6 years earlier using an ATS bileaflet tilting disc prostheses (ATS Medical Inc., Minneapolis, MN) for combined valvular stenosis and regurgitation because of rheumatic heart disease. On a routine clinic visit, the patient reported progressive fatigue and pedal edema over the previous few weeks. On physical examinat...

We consider a set of axis-parallel nonintersecting strips in the plane. An observer starts to the left of all strips and ends to the right, thus visiting all strips in the given order. A strip is inspected as long as the observer is inside the strip. How should the observer move to inspect all strips? We use the path length outside a strip as a quality measure which should be minimized. Therefo...

In cold rolling of thin strips, i.e., foils (Thickness

in order to investigate the structural behaviour of persian brick masonry domes, three types of semi-circular, (drop, ordinary and raised) four-centred and (drop, ordinary and raised) pointed domes have been studied. the three-dimensional non-linear finite element method using the ansys code has been used for analysis. domes with different thicknesses and spans have been subjected to monotonic ...

LiDAR systems have been established as technology for fast and high-resolution acquisition of 3D point clouds. In general, LiDAR data acquisition is conducted by private companies who are also responsible for processing and quality control. However, in many cases a subsequent quality assessment of overlapping LiDAR strips still reveals apparent horizontal and vertical offsets which are caused b...

Stomata in epidermal strips of Vicia faba opened in light and closed in darkness when floated on dilute K(+) solutions. Opening and closing, respectively, paralleled the fluxes of labeled K(+) into and out of the strips. The gain and loss of K(+) by the strips were shown by colbaltinitrite stain to be centered at guard cells. Intact epidermal cells, however, appeared to take up K(+), complicati...

Temporal planning (TP) is notoriously difficult because it requires to solve a propositional STRIPS planning problem with temporal constraints. In this paper, we propose an efficient strategy for solving TP, which combines, in an innovative way, several well established and studied techniques in AI, OR and constraint programming. Our approach integrates graph planning (a well studied planning p...