The strategy of designing the covers international magazines emerges as one expressive means that reflect emotional and aspects employ them according to spatial transformations struggles globalization usurp intellectual, cultural, value civilizational essence man, which makes him vulnerable psychological spiritual alienation becomes abstract meaning identity culture, empowerment cultural invasi...

I have been working in VR and interactive 3D for a long time. I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with many of the people that are directly responsible for creating the magic in the world that we live in today. These are the people that started with a virtual blank page and created their own reality. Their vision defined a vector into their future that we have had the privilege of ex...

OBJECTIVE To examine the benefits of adding salmeterol compared with increasing dose of inhaled corticosteroids. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised, double blind clinical trials. Independent data extraction and validation with summary data from study reports and manuscripts. Fixed and random effects analyses. SETTING EMBASE, Medline, and GlaxoWellcome internal clinical study registers. ...

Two hundred and fifty day-old broiler chickens were housed in a high altitude farm and divided in two experimental groups (cold-exposed and control). At the age of 3 and 4 d, the cold-exposed chickens were exposed to 15?C for 3 h, while the control birds were reared under normal condition. During the period between 14 and 28 days, both groups of chickens were exposed to a low environmental temp...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To investigate sleep EEG changes in adolescents across 7 nights of sleep restriction to 5 h time in bed [TIB]) and 3 recovery nights of 9 h TIB. METHODS A parallel-group design, quasi-laboratory study was conducted in a boarding school. Fifty-five healthy adolescents (25 males, age = 15-19 y) who reported habitual TIBs of approximately 6 h on week nights (group average) but e...

OBJECTIVE To compare a novel code-word alarm with a commercially available wireless alarm for treating enuresis. SETTING A tertiary paediatric centre. PATIENTS Children aged 6-18 with at least 3 wet nights per week in the previous 6 months referred by doctors. OUTCOMES Primary outcome: the proportion who achieved a full response (14 consecutive dry nights) by 16 weeks. Secondary outcomes:...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which individual differences in vulnerability to total sleep deprivation also reflect individual differences in vulnerability to multiple nights of sleep restriction. DESIGN Two sleep loss conditions (order counterbalanced) separated by 2 to 4 weeks: (a) total sleep deprivation (TSD) of 2 nights (63 h continuous wakefulness); (b) sleep restriction (SR) of ...