How Wonderful is Wonderland?

Evidence-based practice is wonderful...sort of.

What should nurses do in caring for intubated patients to prevent ventilatorassociated pneumonia? What is the most effective way to suction patients who are ventilator dependent? Should patients experiencing acute coronary syndrome be given thrombolytics or just be whisked to the catheterization laboratory for a cardiac angiogram, angioplasty, and stent? Should all diabetic patients, regardless...

“The object is wonderful or prickly": how different object properties modulate behavior in a joint context

This study investigated whether the interaction with objects could be modulated by the real presence of another person. We used a “joint paradigm” in which participants performed the task while another person was just sitting in front of them (Social condition) or interacting with them (Joint condition). Kinematics measures showed how comprehending sentences referring to objects and to others i...

How molecules become magnetic ... and the resulting wonderland

In everyday life, the word “magnetism” most often refers to solid materials, metals, alloys, oxides. As for molecules, they are considered to be isolated, non-magnetic objects. Nevertheless, to be or not to be (magnetic) is not the appropriate question: everything is magnetic; the true problem lies in determining how. The purpose of this lecture is to illustrate the magnetism of molecules throu...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Platelet Refractoriness and how it is formed

Abstract Background and Objectives Transfusion of platelet has become one of the main treatments for thrombocytopenic patients to reduce the severity and frequency of bleeding consequences. Failure to attain the desired level of platelets in a patient following platelet transfusion is defined as platelet refractoriness. The purpose of present paper is to review and study the mechanisms involve...