A report of a patient with Lazarus phenomenon (the return of spontaneous circulation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation) following cardiac arrest (myocardium ischemia) is presented. A 65 year patient was found unconscious at home. He taken to the emergency department On arrival he was unconscious, his pupils fixed and dilated bilaterally. Resuscitation proceeded for 55 minutes. He was then pro...

A continuing, oft-expressed concern about the legal system, in the English-speaking world at least, is the rising cost of legal services, whether civil or criminal. Given the labour-intensive nature of legal services, this is not surprising to an economist, as we discuss below. In order to be effective, policy must be informed before reforms are considered, lest reforming zeal be dissipated ine...

The artist is a landscape painter whose work addresses issues of land use and development. She is particularly inter­ ested in the many ways our built envi­ ronment has changed over time in re­ sponse to changes in our culture. She is currently an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She holds a BA from Yale and an MFA in painting from the University of Michi­ gan. To view mor...

The percentage of people having a lower leg amputation is high, and the incidence unemployment among these amputees likewise rising. Hence, it requires intervention an innovative solution to serve function lost limb. Electromyogram (EMG) signals result potential generated by muscles during contraction. In this work, attempt has been made extract EMG from four set muscle groups acquired were pre...

The RISING (Rare ISotope INvestigations at GSI) project [1] combines the EUROBALL Cluster Ge-detectors [2] and the fragment separator FRS [3] for high-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy measurements after in-flight isotope separation. In a first campaign relativistic Coulomb excitation of radioactive projectiles and the spectroscopy of nuclei excited in secondary fragmentation reactions were examine...

During oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster, the cells in the follicular epithelium of the ovary undergo a transition from a cuboidal to a squamous shape. In this issue, Gomez et al. (2012. J. Cell Biol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201207150) show that the kinase Tao promotes the endocytosis of the cell adhesion molecule Fasciclin 2 from the lateral surface of the cell and is critical for the...

This paper's central concern is with signs of fascism in recent political developments in a number of European countries and the United States. It takes the reader back to earlier periods in European and American history when this same anguished question was raised. Thus a longer intellectual history of concerns about the viability of democratic systems is drawn to guide us in our current polit...