Febrile convulsions in childhood constitute one of the commonest medical emergencies in paediatric practice. Although the aetiology, clinical picture, treatment and possible sequelae are described and discussed in the standard paediatric literature, little or no mention is made of the exact cerebrospinal fluid (C.S.F.) composition in this condition (Sheldon, 1951; Grulee and Eley, 1952; Collis,...

A critical step toward the rational design of new catalysts that achieve selective and efficient reduction of CO2 to specific hydrocarbons and oxygenates is to determine the detailed reaction mechanism including kinetics and product selectivity as a function of pH and applied potential for known systems. To accomplish this, we apply ab initio molecular metadynamics simulations (AIMμD) for the w...

acetylene dose due to the high supply of hydrogen. Moreover, methane should not be formed, since there should not be any dissociation of acetylene on the surface. Figure 11 shows the result of an experiment in which the surface was precovered with a monolayer of hydrogen. The first dose of acetylene (0.2 X 1015 molecules of C2H2 cm-2) leads to an enormous increase in the hydrogen pressure and t...

ation by the ciliopathy protein Rpgrip1 l is essential for planar cell polarity. J Cell Biol 2012; 198: 927–940 18. Pugacheva EN, Jablonski SA, Hartman TR et al. HEF1-dependent Aurora A activation induces disassembly of the primary cilium. Cell 2007; 129: 1351–1363 19. Kim S, Tsiokas L. Cilia and cell cycle re-entry: more than a coincidence. Cell Cycle 2011; 10: 2683–2690 20. Phillips CL, Mille...

The Oxford English Dictionary defines routine as "a regular course or procedure, a more or less mechanical or unvarying performance of certain acts or duties". Over tie past 20 years a chest radio-graph has become a routine part of the assessment of a patient prior to general anaesthesia. It is right that we should periodically confirm, or perhaps question, our reasons for performing any invest...

Surfaces form the working template upon which much of the world’s technologically important chemistry occurs.1 Catalysis, corrosion, adhesion, friction/lubrication, and materials growth all depend critically upon interfacial chemistry. This account discusses how photochemical methods can be exploited to explore the fundamental dynamics of elementary catalytic reactions occurring at the gas/meta...

A review of relevant published reports seems to indicate that in the case of babies suffering from intermittent airway obstruction due to a combination of micrognathia, glossoptosis, and often cleft of hard and soft palate (the Pierre Robin syndrome), successful treatment usually includes surgery of one kind or another. However, some non-surgical methods have been advocated. Pierre Robin (1934)...

We present a kinetic double-layer surface model (K2-SURF) that describes the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on aerosol particles exposed to ozone, nitrogen dioxide, water vapor, hydroxyl and nitrate radicals. The model is based on multiple experimental studies of PAH degradation and on the PRA framework (PöschlRudich-Ammann, 2007) for aerosol and cloud surface chemistry ...

Nursing’s ageing workforce is the subject of increasing discussion and debate (Watson 2005, Lavoie-Tremblay et al. 2006). There are expectations of widespread retirements in the near future (Eley et al. 2007) and many areas and nursing specialties are threatened by the expected loss of large numbers of their workforce to retirement. This threat is true for clinical nurses (Halcomb et al. 2008),...