Considerable individual differences exist in asthma patients' airway responses to emotional stimuli, but little is known about the generalization of such responses across situations or states of airways constriction. Fifty-four asthma patients and 25 healthy controls viewed in two separate sessions, films and blocks of pictures from each of three emotional qualities, pleasant, unpleasant, and n...

The competition among enterprises has gradually become the competition between supply chains, and it is more and more important for the cooperation among members of the supply chain to improve supply chain performance. Information sharing is an important way of cooperation among members of supply chain, which attaches great significance for the integration of the supply chain. With the developm...

Background Forced oscillation technique (FOT) measures respiratory impedance by applying external pressures to the respiratory system and makes it possible to evaluate various aspect of airway physiology including small airways. MasterScreen IOS (IOS) has been widely utilized as a FOT. Recently, a new FOT, Mostgraph, has been available in Japan. Clinical experience including reference values of...

The Journal of Vestibular Research is pleased to publish the abstracts for the XXVIII Bárány Society Meeting, which is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Journal of Vestibular Research is dedicated to the publication of high-quality, original, peer-reviewed papers in the area of vestibular function and its disorders. IOS Press, the publisher of the Journal of Vestibular Research, has ag...

0378-777X/00/$12.00 © 2000 IOS Press and disease through trade. In particular, through the promotion of “the conservation of Africa’s rich heritage in biological diversity, which is a global asset and promote its sustainable use for the benefit of local people.” The Summit ended with H.E. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria and Chairman of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), and H....