Lightning strike can result in varied neurologic consequences ranging from hypoxic encephalopathy to intracranial hemorrhage. However, lightning strike resulting in cerebellar stroke is very rare. We present the case of a patient who developed cerebellar ataxia following a lightning strike. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed infarcts in both cerebellar hemispheres. The patient recovered with m...

Hunger strike is a regularly reported problem in prison. Although clinical situations are rarely severe, hospitalisation is often considered. In consequence, it is not only physicians working in prisons, but also hospital medical teams who face challenges related to hunger strike, involving somatic, psychological, legal and human rights aspects. Furthermore, deontological rules must be strictly...

An investigation into the moisture content in the fleece of Merino sheep was commenced after proposing the hypothesis that moisture and relative humidity were required at the skin surface for the survival of the 1st instar larvae and the initiation of a strike. A method for drying wool was developed which created a minimal disturbance to its normal constituents. It was shown that, in dry weathe...

One of the remarkable tectonic features of the Earth’s crust is the widespread presence of long, approximately straight and geomorphically prominent strike-slip faults which are a kinematic consequence of large-scale motion of plates on a sphere (Wilson 1965). Strike-slip faults form in continental and oceanic transform plate boundaries; in intraplate settings as a continental interior response...

A detailed simulation of air showers produced by dust grains has been performed by means of the aires Monte Carlo code with the aim of comparing with experimental data. Our analysis indicates that extensive dust grain air showers must yet be regarded as highly speculative but they cannot be completely ruled out. PACS number(s): 98.70.Sa, 98.70.-f

On Friday afternoon I had the opportunity to try my hand at blacksmithing while I was attending a museum conference at the Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown. Although I was an industrial arts student at SUNY Oswego many years ago, I never enrolled in metal shop so this was my first encounter with a forge. My first task was to make a nail. As simple as it might appear, there are techniques that hav...

Michael Wheeler opens his book with the following half-apology: “striking while the iron is lukewarm is sometimes the best strategy in philosophy” (Preface, p. x). He is referring to the fact that the main task of this book—to ferret out and critically assess the Cartesian legacy in contemporary cognitive science, replacing it (or at least altering it to better conform) with a philosophy of min...

Address for reprints: Dr. Carlos Labadet Av. Almirante Brown 240 CABA e-mail: [email protected] A BIT OF HISTORY Historically, premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) were considered precursors of sudden cardiac death and, for many years, their mere presence was taken as an indication for prescribing antiarrhythmic agents. The concept that ventricular fibrillation (VF) and ventricular tachyc...

We develop a model of wage bargaining with private information in a duopoly. We investigate how product differentiation and market competition (Bertrand vs. Cournot competition) affect wages and strikes. If bargaining takes place at the industry-level, then both the wage outcome and the strike activity do not depend on the degree of product differentiation whatever the type of market competitio...