BACKGROUND Being awake during anaesthesia is a serious complication. An anaesthetic depth monitor must discriminate in real time between wakefulness and unconsciousness. The present study created a period of wakefulness during propofol-induced hypnosis. Bispectral index (BIS), explicit and implicit memories of the awake period were investigated. METHODS Ten volunteers were studied. The calcul...

Cardiovascular diseases are the major causes of death in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of conventional risk factors for coronary artery disease in Lor migrating tribes in southern part of Iran. Two hundred six persons of Lor migrating tribes in Mamasani, southern Iran (age range, 21 - 80 years) were randomly enrolled in the study. Their serum total cholesterol, tri...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui penerapan model Problem Based Learning pada muatan pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia kelas III di SDN Panggung Lor Semarang Utara. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode kualitatif dengan menggunakan teknik triangulasi data, pengumpulan data hasil observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi, kemudian dilakukan analisis terhadap telah diperoleh. Subjek diteliti...

A well-known method for generating computer art is based on the paradigm of user-guided evolution, a method whereby "artists" interactively search through populations of images in order to select, and subsequently breed, those images which show aesthetic promise. This can be a time consuming endeavor, lacking well-defined principles for controlling evolution and for obtaining images with desire...

This paper reports on the numbers of treatment cycles involved in the development of IVF (1969-1978) and their outcomes. We show that between 1969 and 1978: (i) a minimum of 282 women were involved in 495 cycles of potential laparoscopic oocyte retrieval (LOR); (ii) of these cycles, 457/495 proceeded to LOR to attempt egg collection; (iii) of which an outcome was recorded in 436/457; (iv) eggs ...

Currently, teachers who opt to use multimedia teaching resources in the classroom have to create them from scratch, or reuse others that they may find on the internet. Learning Object Repositories (LOR) have recently started to be created to facilitate the search and reuse of teaching materials. In this work we describe the final results of a project to establish a LOR for use by the teaching s...

Techniques for recovery and reuse of learning objects in various learning management systems actually provide learning alternatives and services for online learning. One of these alternatives is the recovery of resources in the Learning Objects Repositories (LOR); this LOR hand out different services such as search for a specific resource by a user. From the perspective of artificial intelligen...

Performing lumbar epidural anaesthesia in children to provide analgesia in peri-operative period requires meticulous technique and have increased success rate if we can predict the distance from skin to posterior epidural space. The main purpose of this observational study is to measure skin to epidural distance (SED) in lumbar region in Indian children and to determine whether there is any cor...

Bleak outlook lor 1988 at Great Ormond Street Hospital - it's the year when the copyright runs out for M Barrie's evergreen Peter Pan. The royalties, donated by the author to the hard-pressed hospital, will no longer be coming in.

Spores of Clostridium bifermentans germinated in the presence of L-alanine and sodium ions. The rate of germination was not altered by the addition of D-alanine but was increased by L-a-amino-n-butyrate, L-lactate, Lor D-arginine, L-histidine, DL-ornithine, L-lysine, pyruvate, Lor D-serine, L-phenylalanine or L-proline and decreased by D-phenylalanine, L-isoleucine, glycine or L-threonine. Comb...