A hiccup in holiday plans

A Case of Persistent Hiccup

Why do we hiccup?

Why do we hiccup? Considering the fact that almost everyone experiences hiccups at one time or another, remarkably little is known about them. The name itself is onomatopoeic, which is appropriate considering that the only common understanding of the hiccup is of the characteristic sound. Hiccups can be predictably elicited in some individuals by overindulgence of food, alcohol, or both, someti...

Death takes a holiday

control may kick in even before a kinetochore is assembled. The mitotic checkpoint— controlled by Mad1, Mad2, Bub1, BubR1, and Bub3— delays anaphase by inhibiting APC until all kinetochores are properly attached to the spindle. Because inhibition of Mad2 leads to an accelerated mitosis and a precocious anaphase, it has been assumed that the checkpoint itself also regulates mitotic timing. But M...

Automatic Creation of Countermeasure Plans against Process Delay: Creation of Countermeasures based on Holiday Work

The authors have been developing the automatic scheduling systems for software development project, which deliver scheduling and worker assignment. Their earlier works were designed to draw on crashing and fast tracking to produce countermeasure plans against process delay. However, process delay can be recovered not only by crashing or fast tracking but also by using holiday works. Their earli...

Linkage of hiccup with heartbeat.

We explored a possible link between the cardiac cycle and the timing of recurrent hiccups in 10 patients with chronic, intractable hiccups. Recordings made during daytime naps in a sleep laboratory included sleep state; electrocardiogram; and respiration by means of a thermistor to detect airflow, bands around the rib cage and abdomen to assess expansion, and a bipolar surface electrode electro...