American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder’s lifelong attraction to passion for if not obsession with the work of James Joyce has led unintended consequences. Wilder was writing what would become his second Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Skin Our Teeth, while in midst “unriddling” Joyce’s final novel, Finnegans Wake. Accusations plagiarism subsequently arise from two major scholars, Jos...

We have studied 26 asthmatic patients in whom deep inspiration induced a transient but marked bronchodilatation when carbachol-induced bronchoconstriction was present. Changes in bronchial tone were assessed by specific airway resistance measurements. Bronchodilatation after a slow inspiration (eight subjects) or a 10-second breath-hold at total lung capacity (13 subjects) was significantly les...

Voice recognition software (VRS) has increasingly been utilised to document clinical care, typically within an electronic health care record and often with the use of ‘templates’. This software has been purported to enhance doctor efficiency, reduce costs and improve patient care1. The aim of the current pilot was the mandatory adoption of VRS embedded into electronic clinical documentation wit...

PURPOSE This pilot study aimed at finding trend for further investigation of the optimal maintenance therapy with lansoprazole in patients with non-erosive reflux disease (NERD) suffering from mild symptoms. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty consecutive patients with diagnosed NERD reporting mild symptoms were included in the study. After successfully finishing a four-week treatment with lansoprazol...

This study has concerned itself with the comparative efficiency of instructions, elicitations, and reinforcements in the manipulation of affective verbal behavior. Bandura has suggested that simple instructions to emit a verbal operant would be superior to the usual reinforcement contingency procedure in increasing verbal response rate. The results indicate that the instruction groups achieved ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a picture naming task of simple and complex words in children with typical speech and with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). Results reveal reduced amplitude prior to speaking complex (multisyllabic) words relative to simple (monosyllabic) words for the CAS group over the right hemisphere during a time window thought to reflect phonological ...