pending Voluntary Control of the Diaphragm L.C.Lum, Cambridge, U.K. Some workers maintain that one cannot voluntarily control diaphragmatic contraction. Simultaneous records of intra-thoracic and intra-abdominal pressures demonstrate that intraabdominal pressure can be varied at will by voluntary contraction and relaxation of the diaphragm. PANIC and PHOBIA: Of 701 cases of chronic hyperventila...

Throughout this very unusual year, American Pharmacists Association (APhA)–Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management (APPM) leaders members came together virtually to strengthen our profession during a challenging time being essential health care workers on the frontlines coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as well dealing with pressures declining reimbursement, increasing workload, ...

The increasing use of multimedia streams nowadays necessitates the development of efficient and effective methodologies and systems for manipulating databases storing these streams. These systems have various areas of application such as video-ondemand and digital libraries. The importance of video content-based retrieval (CBR) systems motivates us to explain their basic components in this chap...

Although numerous antimicrobial interventions targeting Escherichia coli O157:H7 have been developed and implemented to decontaminate meat and meat products during the harvesting process, the information on efficacy of these interventions against the so-called Big Six non-O157 Shiga toxin–producing E. coli (STEC) strains is limited. Prerigor beef flanks (160) were inoculated to determine if ant...

Currently, several beef processors employ test-and-hold systems for increased quality control of ground beef. In such programs, each lot of product must be tested and found negative for Escherichia coli O157:H7 prior to release of the product into commerce. Optimization of three testing attributes (detection time, specificity, and sensitivity) is critical to the success of such strategies. Beca...

Anand, Praveen – “Proteome-wide binding site network analysis of M. tuberculosis” (Panel) Nagasuma Chandra and Praveen Anand. Indian Institute of Science, India. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causative agent of tuberculosis claims 4700 lives everyday. Special traits of the bacteria such as dormancy, ability to quickly take-over immunocompromised hosts and resistance adds to the complexity of the ...

Mechanics has an important role during morphogenesis, both in the generation of forces driving cell shape changes and in determining the effective material properties of cells and tissues. Drosophila dorsal closure has emerged as a reference model system for investigating the interplay between tissue mechanics and cellular activity. During dorsal closure, the amnioserosa generates one of the ma...

Two mysteries of brains are focussed in this article from a roboticist's view. The rst is the brain's capacity to make sense of real-life sensoric input, which di ers strongly from experimentally administered stimuli. Another riddle posed by biological brains lies in the fact that brain subsystems are functionally indeterminate when seen in isolation, and acquire di erent functions when they in...