Swinging The Pendulum Towards Social Emotional Support (A Position Paper)

Left atrial ablation pendulum swinging back towards the pulmonary veins.

No cardiologist today is ignorant anymore of the fact that the pulmonary vein (PV) ostia and the surrounding left atrial (LA) tissue lie at the heart of atrial fibrillation (AF). The PVs may harbor rapidly firing foci that act as triggers for the initiation of paroxysms of AF. Moreover, the region certainly also plays a key role in its perpetuation towards persistent or even permanent forms by ...

Treatment of the menopause: the swinging pendulum

Facts and views on the treatment of the menopause underwent dramatic swings during the last fifty years, from a non-issue fifty years ago to a must for the well-being of all postmenopausal women at the end of the 20 century. the enthusiasm for hormone replacement therapy (hRt) was smashed in 2002, after the publication of a large-scale prospective randomised study, the Whi trial, on health cost...

Asymptomatic hyperparathyroidism: is the pendulum swinging back?

Position Paper: Developing Skills for Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Wellbeing can be defined as multidimensional and incredibly complex, affected by many different factors according to an individual’s experience. Understanding the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents is important to help support their development and transition to adulthood smoothly. Project based learning has the potential to increase social and emotional wellbeing in students and hav...

Swinging up a pendulum by energy control

Properties of simple strategies for swinging up an inverted pendulum are discussed. It is shown that the behavior critically depends on the ratio of the maximum acceleration of the pivot to the acceleration of gravity. A comparison of energy based strategies with minimum time strategy gives interesting insights into the robustness of minimum time solutions.