A conundrum of modern times that's still unresolved

A conundrum of modern times that's still unresolved.

In recent decades, there has been an abundance of publications about wheezing illnesses and asthma, although none have had the capability to sufficiently define this object of curiosity and concern. Confidence has been lost in traditional approaches, such as locking up key people until one ultimate and final decision has been reached, indicated by white fumes emanating from grave chimneys. More...

Nocturnal Bruxism: Still a Nosological Conundrum?

Sleep bruxism is a frequent and bothersome, albeit benign condition. Diagnosed initially from dentistry specialists, it has become gradually a neurological enigma, since several neurotransmitters and situations not related to dental malocclusion might cause teeth grinding and atypical facial pain. We have studied three cases with surface EMG, performed in the morning hours, thus registering ele...

A Quantitative View of Short Utterances in Daily Conversation: A Case Study of Thats right, Thats true and Thats correct

Short utterances serve a multitude of different communicative functions in interactive speech and have attracted due attention in recent research in dialogue acts. This paper presents a quantitative description of three short utterances i.e. that’s right, that’s true, that’s correct and their variations based on the Switchboard Dialogue Act Corpus. Particularly, it offers an overview to account...

Modern treatment of amyloidosis: unresolved questions.

During the past 10 to 15 years, there has been substantial progress in developing new treatments for the systemic amyloidoses. These advances have improved patient outcomes but have also raised new questions with direct clinical implications. For example, development of less intensive treatments for AL amyloidosis has made less certain the role of autologous stem cell transplantation, and new q...

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