The Second Vatican Council and, in particular, its Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, changed much daily life of Church. In Ireland, a country steeped Catholic tradition but largely peripheral to theological debates that shaped II, changes liturgy and devotional practice were implemented dutifully over relatively short time span without significant upset. But did hierarchical manner their rece...

Healthcare institutions are among the contexts which heavily characterised by interlingual and intercultural contact. In these communicative ‘short circuits’ can occur due to incomprehension resulting from linguistic cultural difficulties. Such situations compromise founding principles of medicine, amongst equal opportunities for patients’ treatment, scrupulous attention providing accurate info...

Catheter radiofrequency ablation of the atrial fibrillation substrate may be difficult in patients after open heart surgery. Difficulties arise presence a mitral valve prosthesis, arrhythmias several morphologies (more often left atypical flutter), including incisional ones. These cases require thorough and scrupulous approach to achieve complete isolation all available arrhythmia substrates. A...

Revision trabeculectomy is used to describe any surgical intervention subsequent to an existing trabeculectomy. Mostly, it is used to describe resurgery for failure of trabeculectomy, as defined by inadequate pressure control. Revision may also be performed for unsafe, uncomfortable or leaking blebs. Mostly bleb failure occurs within the subconjunctival space, although the flap and ostium may b...

The number of centenarians in Japan has increased more than a hundred times over the past four decades, reaching nearly 20,000 persons currently. The rate of centenarians in the population is higher in the western part of Japan, where mortality from stroke is low. Centenarians generally have nutritionally well-balanced diets that are rich in animal food and vegetables. They tend to be extrovert...

Stereotactic multicontact electrodes used to probe the cerebral cortex of a middle aged woman with progressive dementia were previously implicated in the accidental transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) to two younger patients. The diagnoses of CJD have been confirmed for all three cases. More than two years after their last use in humans, after three cleanings and repeated sterilisat...

Fifty male patients, 35-67 years of age, hospitalized because of heart attack, showed striking differences in their overt psychological responses to their illness. Responses ranged from frank depression to cheerfulness, from extreme anxiety to casualness, and from scrupulous cooperation with the medical regimen to active defiance. Ratings on these variables were based on systematic interview da...

The extremely high error rates reported by Keegan et al. in 'A platform-independent method for detecting errors in metagenomic sequencing data: DRISEE' (PLoS Comput Biol 2012; 8: :e1002541) for many next-generation sequencing datasets prompted us to re-examine their results. Our analysis reveals that the presence of conserved artificial sequences, e.g. Illumina adapters, and other naturally occ...

?.. leaving the reader to form ^is own opinions'. So scrupulous he been, however, in avoiding lhe intrusion of his own prejudices, 'hat much of the sharpness of contemporary debate is blunted by the reasonableness of the exposition. The author ranges widely in his ?PProach but it was disappointing the passages dealing with conception, sterilisation and termination of pregnancy, that while he le...