People begin the sleep cycle with a period of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, followed by a very short period of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. During a normal night of sleep, humans usually experience about four or five periods of REM sleep. Penile erections have generally been considered to be an epiphenomenon of REM sleep-related physiological changes for healthy males. Thus, men are v...

We present a simple numerical optimisation procedure to search for highly entangled states of 2, 3, 4 and 5 qubits. We develop a computationally tractable entanglement measure based on the negative partial transpose (NPT) criterion, which can be applied to quantum systems of an arbitrary number of qubits. The search algorithm attempts to optimise this entanglement cost function to find the maxi...

The lipofectin system was used to transform potato protoplasts with plasmid DNA (pIG3031), which contains human α-interferon cDNA and codes for the selectable neomycin phosphotransferase II gene (NPT II). Both genes are under the control of the bi-directional plant active transcriptional promoter from Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA. The criteria of phenotype stability after selective pressure ...

After breast-conserving treatment, the occurrence of ipsilateral breast tumor relapse raises the concern regarding whether it may represent two distinct types of lesion that it is important to define, a true recurrence (TR) or a new primary tumor (NPT). TR and NPT have different natural histories, prognosis, and in turn different implications for therapeutic management. We report the case of a ...

Management of necrotizing fasciitis and severe faecal peritonitis following ostomy in elderly patient with comorbid disease is challenging. We would like to report management of frozen Open Abdomen (OA) with colonic fistula following ostomy necrosis and detachment in an elderly patient with comorbid disease and malignancy. 78-year-old woman with high stage rectum carcinoma was admitted to emerg...

The continuing political and economic instability in the former Soviet Union has exacerbated a series of related proliferation threats in the region. Two recent conferences organized by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies revealed new information regarding problems in physical protection of nuclear materials and facilities, the implementation of export controls, and divergent views on the u...

Abstract Introducing the non-productive time (NPT) concepts in 1960s was a necessity dictated by ever-increasing cost and complexity of oil gas well drilling. The NPT definition stayed unsettled until two decades later, converged toward its accepted current “the when planned or out-of-plans drilling-related activities do not add value to operation objectives.” as it is defined drilling nowadays...

Abstract Background Near-peer teaching (NPT) is a special way of where the tutor one or more academic years ahead person being tutored. The literature agrees on benefits method, but there are only few publications examining its effectiveness using objective methods. aim our study was to examine NPT in training basic surgical skills. Methods We included 60 volunteer students who participated 20 ...

BACKGROUND Implementing good-quality health and social care requires empowerment of staff members within organizations delivering care. Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) is an intervention using positive video feedback to empower staff through reflection on practice. This qualitative study explored the implementation of VIG within an autism care organization in England, from the perspective of s...