Neuromuscular blocking drugs are designed to bind to the nicotinic receptor at the neuromuscular junction. However, they also interact with other acetylcholine receptors in the body. Binding to these receptors causes adverse effects that vary with the specificity for the cholinergic receptor in question. Moreover, all neuromuscular blocking drugs may cause hypersensitivity reactions. Often the ...

We evaluated a response-blocking procedure for reducing the self-injurious hand mouthing of 2 adults with profound disabilities. The procedure reduced mouthing in both cases. The results suggest research is warranted to delineate the behavioral process responsible for the effect of response blocking and to determine the procedure's long-term utility.

Blocking is a learning phenomenon in which prior experience inhibits learning about novel cues. Though the phenomenon itself has been well documented, the details of blocking-related processes still remain contentious. Two experiments investigated whether participants were engaged in demanding cognitive processing during different portions of a standard blocking paradigm. Participants in Experi...

Abstract Atmospheric blocking events, which cause abnormal weather conditions, have been studied from a viewpoint of quasi‐stationary barotropic circulation systems because their apparent lack vertical tilt. However, this work demonstrates that events often such structure anomalies in geopotential height and temperature are horizontally out‐of‐phase, allowing to produce fluxes heat against the ...

In a wireless network, blocking probability of connection-oriented traffic depends on the transmission radius of the nodes and the channel assignment scheme. In this work we study these two aspects for simple wireless networks. Specifically, we present blocking probability analysis for a wireless line network with random channel allocation to the incoming calls. Based on the expressions derived...

222 Abstract— An alternate routing can improve the blocking performance of an optical network by providing multiple possible paths between source and destination nodes. Wavelength conversion can also improve the blocking performance of an optical network by allowing a connection to use different wavelengths along its route. But wavelength conversion scheme is not an economical proposition. We p...