Accounting and Solvency Convergence – Dream or Reality?

Intelligent Membranes: Dream or Reality?

Intelligent materials are claimed to overcome current drawbacks associated with the attainment of high standards of life, health, security and defense. Membrane-based sensors represent a category of smart systems capable of providing a large number of benefits to different markets of textiles, biomedicine, environment, chemistry, agriculture, architecture, transport and energy. Intelligent memb...

Consensus Guidelines: Reality or Dream?

Aim of Study: Assess quality of diabetes care defined by consensus guidelines of ISPAD in our area; develop appropriate strategies to improve care. Design: Retrospective chart review of all individuals with IDDM diagnosis before spring 1997 followed regularly by us (either outpatient clinic or office). Method: Comparison of number of patients having had: (1) eye exam by ophthalmologist; (2) det...

Vascular organogenesis: dream or reality?

Personalized Medicine and Psychiatry: Dream or Reality?

Premiere Date: October 20, 2013 CME Expiration Date: October 20, 2014 Article Goal The goal of this activity is to present information on personalized medicine and how it may be used to guide the decision making process in psychiatry. Learning Objectives At the end of this article, readers should be able to: 1. Identify the factors that make up a patient’s physiological psychiatric profile. 2. ...

Memory Consolidation in Sleep Dream or Reality

We discuss several lines of evidence refuting the hypothesis that procedural or declarative memories are processed/consolidated in sleep. One of the strongest arguments against a role for sleep in declarative memory involves the demonstration that the marked suppression or elimination of REM sleep in subjects on antidepressant drugs or with brainstem lesions produces no detrimental effects on c...