Results A 37 year old male patient presented with class III dyspnoea on exertion. He was hypertensive with dialysis dependent end stage renal disease and dialysed using an AV Fistula on the left upper limb. Echocardiography showed severe AR and LV dysfunction. CT Coronary angiography showed aortic root to be 5 cm and saccular aneurysms in the circumflex and the right coronary artery with comple...

Placing landmarks on number lines, such as marking each tenth on a 0-1 line with a hatch mark and the corresponding decimal, has been recommended as a useful tool for improving children's number sense. Four experiments indicated that some landmarks do have beneficial effects, others have harmful effects, and yet others have no effects on representations of common fractions (N/M). The effects of...

Students were exposed to a priming task in which subliminal representations of the goal of studying were directly paired (priming-positive group) or not (priming group) to positive words. A control group without subliminal prime of the goal was added. Just after the priming task, students performed an easy or a difficult learning task based on their coursework. Participants in the priming-posit...

In 2004, the Government of Timor-Leste introduced elections to villages (suku). Timor-Leste had only been formally independent since 20021, after some centuries of colonisation by Portugal (variable in the timing and degree of penetration), almost twenty-five years of more systematic occupation by Indonesia (1975–99), and two years of centralised transitional administration by the United Nation...

Abraham Flexner first toured the Yale University School of Medicine in preparation for his report of 1910, but it was just the beginning of his relationship with the school. While his review of Yale in his report was generally favorable, he mentioned several shortfalls that needed to be improved to make the school acceptable. Throughout the next twenty-five years, Flexner worked with Deans Geor...