A GREETING

An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

I do not wish to commemorate Professor Dagianti based solely on his scientific achievements. It would trivialize his memory. I wish you to remember him as a friend and mentor to all university cardiologists. I am old enough to remember him when he was full of strength and fighting spirit, when he used to discuss with his colleagues about the role of the newborn academic discipline of Cardiology...

Greeting from the Chairman

Veteran satisfaction with RN voice-mail greeting.

Voice-mail communication is often used to convey information between the registered nurse (RN) and the Veteran. Using a pretest-posttest design, this study examined whether implementation of a standardized voice-mail greeting had an impact on Veteran satisfaction and the number of messages left on the RN voice-mail. Veterans were more satisfied and there was a significant decrease in RN voice-m...

Respiratory belt transducer constructed using a singing greeting card beeper.

AN ARTICLE by Belušič and Zupančič (1) described the construction of a finger pulse sensor using a singing greeting card beeper. We felt that this beeper made of piezoelectric material could be easily modified to function as a respiratory belt transducer to monitor respiratory movements. Commercially available respiratory belt transducers, such as Pneumotrace (http:// www.adinstruments.com/prod...

The development of a greeting signal in wild chimpanzees.

Adult chimpanzees produce a unique vocal signal, the pant-grunt, when encountering higher-ranking group members. The behaviour is typically directed to a specific receiver and has thus been interpreted as a 'greeting' signal. The alpha male obtains a large share of these calls, followed by the other adult males of the group. In this study, we describe the development of pant-grunting behaviour ...