A school guidance counselor contacts your office worried about an ll-year-old boy, Peter, initially referred to her for declining school performance. Along with the counselor you meet with the child and his sole parent, Susan, who is a 34-year-old parttime nursery school teacher. Throughout the interview, Peter appears perplexed and frightened and is extremely evasive, giving monosyllabic answe...

JCB • VOLUME 214 • NUMBER 3 • 2016 234 At the age of seven, Frederic Bard’s father taught him about the atomic composition of water molecules. Bard was fl abbergasted to learn that water is not simply “made of water.” He became fascinated by the idea that deeper truths about the world were waiting to be discovered, and in middle school he fell in love with biology. Noticing his interest in clas...

Asoka is one of the greatest emperors not only in Indian history but world history. He was a great conqueror, efficient administrator and successful religious leader. No matter from which point view his achievements are evaluated, he proves to be absolutely worthy. ‘He had energy Chandra Gupta, versatility Samudra Gupta catholicity an Akbar.’ appropriate successor for vast empire that inherited...

We have studied the reproducibility of the change in maximum expiratory flow rates after breathing helium/oxygen (He/O2) mixtures in 12 asthmatics at rest and after exercise. Each subject performed four identical exercise tests which caused a similar degree of exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) on each occasion. We compared flow rates at 50% of the vital capacity (V50) breathing He/O2 to those...