A prospective, comparative study of a novel audio pillow with hypnosis text and relaxation music was conducted in 82 dental-implant surgery patients to relieve anxiety over a 6-month period. Visual analogue scales combined with the Aachen Dental Treatment Fear Inventory (AZI) questionnaire were used to quantify patients' subjective feelings of fear. Blood pressure, heart rate, and capillary oxy...

Sir,—Recently, difficulty was encountered during anaesthesia for a 75-year-old man who presented with hoarseness but no history of dyspnoea. Indirect laryngoscopy revealed a small tumour on the left vocal cord but the laryngeal aperture was adequate. Subsequently, the patient was anaesthetized for the purpose of direct laryngoscopy and biopsy. Premedication comprised atropine 0.6 mg and prometh...

Metal-oxidizing bacteria may play a key role in the submarine weathering of volcanic rocks and the formation of ferromanganese crusts. Putative fossil microbes encrusted in Mn oxide phases are commonly observed on volcanic glasses recovered from the deep ocean; however, no known Mn(II)-oxidizing bacteria have been directly identified or cultured from natural weathered basalts. To isolate epilit...

This work shows the Kédougou-Kéniéba inlier (eastern Senegal) pillow lavas behavior from laboratory to field. Some uniaxial tests are carried out on five types of specimens of pillow lavas. These types of specimens are: microscopically healthy rock, fractured rock without filling, fractured rock filled with epidote, chlorite and calcite and rocks with tension crack filled with quartz. The Young...

[1] In Deep Sea Drilling Program (DSDP) Hole 417D in the western central North Atlantic, dips of pillow margins measured in the upper and lower part of basement correlate with tilts predicted from paleomagnetic inclinations in the corresponding parts of the hole. A 40 westward dip of the seafloor around 417Dmatches the tilt predicted from inclinations and pillow margin dips in the uppermost lav...

Methods Male Swiss mice were used in the experiments. All procedures were approved by the University Animal Ethics Comittee (CEUA/Unisul protocol n# 11.022.4.08.IV). For induction of IR an elastic ring (1.2mm diameter) was positioned in the right ankle of anesthetized mice (chloral hydrate 7%, 0.6ml/kg, ip). After three hours the ring was cut allowing reperfusion. Experimental groups were: Sham...