A 29-year-old woman without known medical illness was evaluated for incessant palpitations. She presented to an emergency department multiple times, where various diagnoses were made, including junctional tachycardia, atrial tachycardia, and atrial fibrillation. Therapy with propafenone, metoprolol, and rivaroxaban was initiated, but her symptoms continued. Echocardiography did not show evidenc...

A central preoccupation that constantly arises in Australian culture is the question of who ‘we’ are and where belong. So much evident independent women's fashion magazine Russh, focus this article, which pride uncertainty about identity (and fashionability) representationally resolved through a sensual, girlish white fashionable ideal. By closely analysing issues selected from its archive, art...

A woman was first seen several months after her husband had died following cardiac transplantation. She had gone into mourning and cried freely at the time, but was indignant about the failure of the surgery. She felt her husband should not have chosen surgery knowing that there was a chance he would not survive and would leave her widowed; she had cared for him 'devotedly' during his nine-year...

Temporary Mediterranean ponds are complex ecosystems which support a high diversity of organisms that include heterotrophic microorganisms, algae, crustaceans, amphibians and higher plants, and have the potential to supply food and a resting place to migratory birds. The role of heterotrophs at the base of the food web in providing energy to the higher trophic levels was studied in temporary po...

This qualitative study aimed to analyze the social representation of teenagers who had their first child and about maternal care to newborns in the home environment. Participants were eight teenagers with their newborns. Data were collected at their homes by means of projective techniques and semi-structured interviews. Analysis was based on social representation theory, demonstrating that the ...

Coordination and composition of components is an essential concern in component-based software engineering. In this paper, we present an operational semantics for a component composition language called Reo. Reo connectors exogenously compose and coordinate the interactions among individual components, that unawarely comprise a complex system, into a coherent collaboration. The formal semantics...