INTRODUCTION In chronic alveolar hypoventilation, previous studies of selected patient groups have shown that nocturnal home mechanical ventilation (HMV) may result in improvements in chronic blood gas disturbances during daytime spontaneous breathing. We wished to examine the effects of this treatment in a large sample of non-selected patients prospectively followed up, in a national multicent...

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1. Introduction In a scene in " The Importance of Being Earnest " Oscar Wilde pinpoints an array of properties of religious ritual systems that cognitive theorizing about religious rituals, viz., the theory of religious ritual competence, has subsequently systematized (Lawson and McCauley 1990; McCauley and Lawson 2002). To the amusement of hundreds of audiences, Wilde's play also identifies a ...

1 Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland 2 Laboratoire de Crystallographie, Université de Genève, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland 3 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP 220, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, France * Corresponding author: Tel. +41-22-3796076; fax +...