OBVIOUSLY, we all wish for our patients to do well. We learn about our patients’ comorbidities and develop anesthetic plans that impress colleagues and oral board examiners. We make efforts to influence our patients’ outcomes by implementing protocols for perioperative -adrenergic blockade and postoperative analgesia. But are there more important factors readily within our control that we are n...

We study prime divisors of various sequences of positive integers A(n) + 1, n = 1,...,N, such that the ratios a(n) = A(n)/A(n − 1) have some number-theoretic or combinatorial meaning. In the case a(n) = n, we obviously have A(n) = n!, for which several new results about prime divisors of n! + 1 have recently been obtained.

The necropsy findings in an elderly woman, who had been treated with methyldopa and who had died during treatment for accidental hypothermia, showed acute periductal inflammation of obviously similar duration in an entopic pancreas in the wall of the jejunum and in the ectopic pancreas. This supports the hypothesis that attempted drug detoxification by pancreatic tissue can cause pancreatitis.

Integration of mycobacteriophage L5 requires the mycobacterial integration host factor (mIHF) in vitro. mIHF is a 105-residue heat-stable polypeptide that is not obviously related to HU or any other small DNA-binding proteins. mIHF is most abundant just prior to entry into stationary phase and is essential for the viability of Mycobacterium smegmatis.

Most current Adaptive Educational Systems model cognitive characteristics of students such as learning goals, knowledge and preferences. However, motivation obviously plays a key role in education. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art regarding adaptation to motivation. Open research issues that need to be addressed are identified .

We present an approach for 3D reconstruction of objects from a single panoramic image. Obviously, constraints on the 3D structure are needed to perform this task. Our approach is based on user-provided coplanarity, perpendicularity and parallelism constraints. The method is described in detail for the case of a parabolic mirror-based omnidirectional sensor and results are provided.

BACKGROUND Photodynamic therapy with topical aminolevulinic acid (ALA-PDT) has been suggested to be effective in treatment of acne vulgaris. However, adverse events occur during and after treatment. OBJECTIVES To compare the efficacy and tolerability of optical intra-tissue fiber irradiation (OFI) ALA-PDT versus traditional ALA-PDT in treatment of acne vulgaris in rabbit models. METHODS Twe...

The present study was carried out to investigate the impact of Banxiaxiexin Decoction on the intestinal microorganisms and enzyme activities in mice with spleen-deficiency constipation. 24 experimental mice were randomly divided into 4 groups including the normal group, the model group with spleendeficiency constipation, Banxiaxiexin Decoction treated group and Zhizhu Decoction treated group. B...

MMANUEL KANT, the eighteenth-century German philosopher, and Niels Bohr, the twentieth-century Danish physicist, both noted that driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable contradictions. Kant (1934) epitomized his insight into this fundamental limitation of human reason with his aphorism “Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made not...

An argument often given for adopting the Axiom of Choice as an axiom is that it has a lot of obviously true consequences. This looks like a legitimate application of the practice of Inference to the Best Explanation. However, the standard examples of obvious-truths-following-from-AC all turn out, on closer inspection, to involve a fallacy of equivocation.