On urgency and importance

Importance of Rectal Urgency in Childhood Irritable Bowel Syndrome

TO THE EDITOR: We read with interest the article titled “The incidence of irritable bowel syndrome in children using the Rome III criteria and the effect of trimebutine treatment” by Karabulut et al that is a rare and a valuable study from our country. As the author stated, functional dyspepsia and urgency are very common symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) patients. Although the associa...

On the Urgency Expressiveness

Multimodal urgency coding: auditory, visual, and tactile parameters and their impact on perceived urgency.

Through a series of investigations involving different levels of contextual fidelity we developed scales of perceived urgency for several dimensions of the auditory, visual, and tactile modalities. Psychophysical ratings of perceived urgency, annoyance, and acceptability as well as behavioral responses to signals in each modality were obtained and analyzed using Steven's Power Law to allow comp...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...

Evaluation of the dentists' knowledge on medical urgency and emergency.

This study aimed at evaluating how well dentists understand medical emergency/urgency procedures and issues during dental treatment at a hospital specialized in cleft lip and palate. It comprised a hundred dentists from the Hospital for Rehabilitation of Craniofacial Anomalies, University of São Paulo (HRAC/USP), Brazil, from different dental specialties. A questionnaire was applied to evaluate...