The Hypertension Singing Bowl is an Acoustic Sonification shaped by a year of blood pressure data that has been 3D printed in stainless steel so that it rings. The design of the bowl was a response to a medical diagnosis of hypertension that required regular self-tracking of blood pressure. The culture of selftracking, known as the Quantified Self movement, has the motto “self knowledge through...

Aortic dissection occurs when a tear develops in the wall of the aorta, which is rare in the young population. This fatal disorder is hard to diagnose, especially in young patients. We present the case of aortic dissection in a 15-year-old boy referred to the Emergency Department of Yazd University of Medical Sciences in November 2015. The patient presented to our department with sudden acute c...

The present study compared the memory of young and older adults for details pertaining to two public events of close temporal proximity but varying emotional import-the Columbia shuttle explosion and the 2003 Super Bowl. Participants responded to surveys sent within 2 weeks of these events and then again 7 months later, providing information about event-related details (i.e., of the events them...

The amount of pollutant gases in the atmosphere has reached a critical state due to an increase in industrial development and the rapid growth of automobile industries that use fossil fuels. The combustion of fossil fuels produces harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen monoxide (NO), soot, particulate matter (PM), etc. The use of Dimethyl Ether (DME) biofuel in diesel engines or other c...

Poor mood and elevated anxiety are linked to increased incidence of disease. This study examined the effects of sound meditation, specifically Tibetan singing bowl meditation, on mood, anxiety, pain, and spiritual well-being. Sixty-two women and men (mean age 49.7 years) participated. As compared with pre-meditation, following the sound meditation participants reported significantly less tensio...

The catalytic effect of graphene on the corannulene bowl-to-bowl inversion is confirmed in this paper using a pair-wise dispersion interaction model. In particular, continuum approach together with Lennard-Jones...

since the study period. In-vitro tests of thryoid function have become more specific and more available recently and we believe that these should now be included in the routine investigations whenever there is the slightest suspicion that hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism might account for a patient's presenting bowel disorder. A total of 57% of the surviving patients (18 men and 26 women) stil...

This paper uses a natural experiment—the Super Bowl—to study the 2 causal effect of advertising on demand for movies. Identification of 3 the causal effect rests on two points: 1) Super Bowl ads are purchased 4 before advertisers know which teams will play; 2) home cities of the 5 teams that are playing will have proportionally more viewers that 6 other cities. We find that the movies in our sa...