thinner usage may lead myocardial infarction (MI). Hereby, we discussed a subacute anterior MI patient (28-year-old male) without a previous medical history, abusing paint thinner and ecstasy. Our patient, flooring parquetry, used to inhale approximately 250 mL paint thinner with a towel a day for 15 years, take 2 pills of ecstasy a day for 5 years, and smoke 20 cigarettes a day for 15 years. O...

We have developed several systems for tracking hand and body motion in front of large interactive media surfaces, such as rearprojection screens or video walls. In particular, this paper concentrates on a small, inexpensive, phase-measuring scanning laser rangefinder designed to address this niche. This device, mounted below a corner of a screen, can track the position of multiple bare hands in...

ION GRAVITY [EMWM] Concepts that must be understood at two levels of abstraction require time for a Spiral [BEMW] approach to learning. However this can be time consuming. Therefore, introduce a concept at its highest level of abstraction and use reflection on the concept to link the higher-level abstraction to the lower one. BUILD AND MAINTAIN CONFIDENCE [EMWM] How do you challenge students to...

Estimates have suggested that there are more than 95 million North Americans who are single, and over half of that 95 million are actively looking for someone to date at any given time (Forster 2002). One increasingly popular method of meeting new people and initiating relationships is through the use of personal advertisements, also referred to as lonely hearts, companion ads and profiles, an ...

Each February, competitors convene in Big Lake, Alaska, to participate in the “Iditasport Human Powered Ultra-Marathon”. Who would attempt this challenging race? Personality might be one factor predicting participation. Iditasport represents a unique athletic event with a distinctive social and psychological climate that might be reflected in the personalities of the participants in many ways. ...

Dr. Gunhild Stordalen, the founder and executive chair of EAT, recently spoke with One Earth about her vision mission on exploring healthy, sustainable, suitable diets for all. The views expressed by Stordalen are hers only not necessarily those EAT. There two ways to answer that question. First, there’s an obvious logical link between food medicine. What we eat is a major determinant whether h...

Introversion-extroversion and the many measures of happiness are both much debated areas of psychological interest. Universally accepted conceptualizations of introversion-extroversion and happiness have, thus far, not been agreed upon. The present study reviewed and empirically examined the psychometric properties of Susan Cain’s recently constructed Quiet Introversion Questionnaire, the domai...

In this article we present a comparative study in which analyzed teacher questions two different languages of instruction, namely, English-medium instruction (EMI) and Basque-medium (BMI) classes at university. For purpose, videotaped teachers who delivered 29 lessons forming corpus 39 h recording. The tool used for classroom observations the analysis was Communicative Orientation Language Teac...