Introduction: Controversy remains as to the advantages and disadvantages of pharyngeal packing during septorhinoplasty. Our study investigated the effect of pharyngeal packing on postoperative nausea and vomiting and sore throat following this type of surgery or septorhinoplasty.   Materials and Methods: This clinical trial was performed on 90 American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I or II...

It is adaptive to remember animates, particularly animate agents, because they play an important role in survival and reproduction. Yet, surprisingly, the role of animacy in mnemonic processing has received little direct attention in the literature. In two experiments, participants were presented with pronounceable nonwords and properties characteristic of either living (animate) or nonliving (...

At the meeting on Science, Research and Development, organized by the European Commission and held April 19-24 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands, 48 projects with participation from 75 laboratories in 17 European countries were presented. The multicenter approach once more stressed the idea that environmental problems are global, and we should try to solve them in cooperation with various cou...

Mechanical interactions are fundamental to biology. Mechanical forces of chemical origin determine motility and adhesion on the cellular scale, and govern transport and affinity on the molecular scale. Biological sensing in the mechanical domain provides unique opportunities to measure forces, displacements and mass changes from cellular and subcellular processes. Nanomechanical systems are par...

We question the strategic potential of EMPs to bring a competitive advantage to their users: their nature and the main differentiating factors that progressively appear over time. Based on three case studies in the retail, automotive and MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Order) industries, conducted from 2002-2007, we more thoroughly describe where buyers and suppliers perceive strategic advantages ...

Consider an asymptotically free gauge theory with global symmetry group G. At short distances this gauge theory allows a perturbative definition. One fundamental question at long distances relates to how the symmetry group G is realized in the vacuum. Virtually no progress has been made in answering this question from first principles in QCD, the gauge theory responsible for all hadronic and nu...

The standardization strategy implies the adoption of a unique market policy or the regional homogenization of the international products development programmes. On the international level, the literary sense of standardization of 100 % uniformity is used only in several exceptional situations, in all external market. Many companies gain a lot of benefits as a consequence of standardization thei...