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A decade of achievement in pulmonary hypertension.

T he past decade has witnessed unprecedented change in the field of pulmonary hypertension (PH). PH has previously been called an orphan disease; that is, a condition that affects few individuals and is overlooked by the medical profession and pharmaceutical companies [1]. Although undoubtedly rare, the concept that PH is ‘‘overlooked’’ cannot be considered to be the case today. In recent years...

High Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis a Decade after Immigration, Netherlands

Incidence rates of pulmonary tuberculosis among immigrants from high incidence countries remain high for at least a decade after immigration into the Netherlands. Possible explanations are reactivation of old infections and infection transmitted after immigration. Control policies should be determined on the basis of the as-yet unknown main causes of the persistent high incidence.

The Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute celebrates its first decade

of Fourth Decade of Islamic Revolution of Iran

With the introduction of modernism to Iran secularism also entered under the guise of intellectualism. From the very beginning secularism has faced important problems in concept and intellectual models. Since secularism has confronted social and political teachings of Islam on one hand and has faced practicality problems in the world on the other hand, it has gained importance. Regarding global...

Investigation of Coarticulation Ba Articulographi

Coarticulation between the speech organs is a natural phenomenon in human speech. To realize this mechanism in our physiological articulatory model [1], this study attempts to analyze coarticulation involved in continuous speech based on electromagnetic articulographic (EMA) data recorded from three Japanese male subjects. The spatial target of each phoneme in CVC and VCV segments out of the se...