Akira Miyake, MD, Heima Sakaguchi, MD, Aya Miyazaki, MD, Takekazu Miyoshi, MD, Takeshi Aiba, MD, Isao Shiraishi, MD From the Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, Department of Perinatology and Gynecology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan, and Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovasc...

The virtual world of Second Life (SL) offers people with disabilities a chance to explore new worlds without being limited by their disabilities. Many people with disabilities use SL for information, support, and entertainment. SL is a computer-based simulated environment in which participants are represented by a human-like avatar. The avatar can move through the environment, manipulate object...

We study the connection between Hodge purity of the cohomology of algebraic varieties over fields of different characteristics. Specifically, we study varieties over number fields, whose cohomology in some fixed degree 2i consists entirely of Hodge classes, that is, whose Hodge cohomology in degree 2i is entirely of type (i, i). Among other things, we give sufficient conditions for varieties ov...

This chapter deals with three question: 1) What are ‘subjective’ measure? 2) What is ‘wellbeing’? and 3) Are subjective measures of wellbeing of use for policymaking, in particular in developing nations? The first question is answered by making a distinction between two kinds of ‘subjectivity’: subjective substance and subjective assessment. On that basis nine types of indicators are discerned,...

A case of second degree, type II, atrioventricular block precipitated by exercise is presented. It is suggested that exercise and other vagolytic manoeuvres may be used as a means of differentiating type I from type II atrioventricular block: the conduction disturbance of type I improves with exercise, whereas that of type II deteriorates with exercise.