Background. Respiratory dead-space is often increased in lung disease. This study evaluates the effects of increased alveolar dead-space (VDalv), pulmonary shunt, and abnormal ventilation perfusion ratio ( _ V= _ Q) distributions on dead-space and alveolar partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PACO2) calculated by various methods, assesses a recently published non-invasive method (Koulouris metho...

Boris Uspensky, in his A Poetics of Composition (1973), offered a model for the study point view fiction. His was later revised and refined by British linguist Roger Fowler Linguistic Criticism (1986). The Fowler-Uspensky encompasses four planes: ideological plane, temporal spatial psychological plane. In Stylistics, Paul Simpson also avers that most writers prefer to construct perspective shif...

Abstract This essay introduces the concept of imperative reading as one solution to tension between implicitly suspicious historicist methods, on hand, and, other, postcritical practices that prioritize readerly pleasure over paranoia. Imperative reveals network historically inflected obligations can produce or intensify expectation should be pleasurable. insight comes view in writing and Samso...

Monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) is present in the outer mitochondrial membrane occurring in the brain predominantly in glial cells and in serotonergic neurons [Fowler et al., 2005]. It oxidizes amines (for example dopamine) from both endogenous and exogenous sources. MAO B is selectively and irreversibly inhibited by L-deprenyl (selegiline). When the enzyme-substrate complex is formed, the rate-lim...

Structural damage enhanced near-infrared electroluminescence (EL) of a metal-oxide-semiconductor light emitting diode (MOSLED) made on SiOx film with buried nanocrystallite Si after CO2 laser rapid-thermal-annealing (RTA) at an optimized intensity of 6 kW/cm for 1 ms is demonstrated. CO2 laser RTA induced oxygen-related defects are capable of improving Fowler-Nordheim tunneling mechanism of car...

The critical study of political discourse has up until very recently rested solely within the domain of the social sciences. Working within a linguistics framework, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), in particular Fairclough (Fairclough 1989, 1995a, 1995b, 2001; Fairclough and Wodak 1997), has been heavily influenced by Foucault. 2 The linguistic theory that CDA and critical linguistics especia...