Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare disorder of the automatic control of breathing. The literary misnomer "Ondine's curse" has been used in prior literatures and the disease was first described in 1970 by Mellins et al.1 The hallmark of the disease is alveolar hypoventilation with insensitivity to hypoxaemia and hypercapnia, most pronounced during sleep, but the clinica...

James Lovelock (2019) called the Newcomen-Watt-Carnot discovery of motive power heat second “decisive event in history our planet,” that led to Thomson-Clausius synthesis Carnot’s and Joule’s theories introducing conceptual tool energy. “Whenever a new emerged within an endeavor, practitioners tended use it context previous habits remained blind for while its full potential,” observed Marshall ...

We analyse the darkwebOKeeffe, Kevin P. and find its structure is unusual.Griffith, Virgil For example, $$ \sim 87 $$\%$$ of darkweb sites never link to another site. To call a “web” thus misnomer—it’s better described as set largely isolated dark silos.Xu, Yang As we show through detailed comparison World Wide Web (www),Santi, Paolo this siloed highly dissimilar other social networks indicates...

BACKGROUND Since Oberndorfer proposed the term "carcinoid" in 1907, over 100 years have passed. This attractive term was initially proposed for 6 cases of his own experience with 12 submucosal lesions in the small intestine.Oberndorfer summarized the characteristic features of these lesions as follows: (1) small in size and often multiple, (2) histologically undifferentiated with a suggestion o...

§1 Animal Minds? In our dealings with animals at least most of us see them as conscious beings. We say “the dog feels pain” ascribing sensation. We notice “My cat wants to get in the kitchen because she thinks there is some cheese left” ascribing beliefs and desires. On the other hand the employment of human categories to animals seems to be problematic. Reflecting on the details of human belie...

§1 Animal Minds? In our dealings with animals at least most of us see them as conscious beings. We say “the dog feels pain” ascribing sensation. We notice “My cat wants to get in the kitchen because she thinks there is some cheese left” ascribing beliefs and desires. On the other hand the employment of human categories to animals seems to be problematic. Reflecting on the details of human belie...

Attitudes towards migrants and refugees are created reflected at the level of public policies, as well in local communities which cultivate traditional approaches a specific worldview. The refugee crisis Europe mid-2010s showed how opinion translated into voting behaviour became source strength for nationalist anti-immigrant movements parties across continent. East-Central was no exception, reg...