The following matter needs to be addressed. In his seminal works on the circulus arteriosus in Cerebri Anatome in 1664 and De Anima Brutorum in 1672, Thomas Willis described the blood supply to the base of the brain in a number of animal species and, more importantly, founded the discipline of clinical neuroscience. The detailed comparative physiology and species differences between ovine and b...

A measurement system for the ac-dc transfer difference of thermal converters whose power response is not exactly quadratic is presented. The previous method, due to the simplifications of the equations, was not valid for those ac-dc transfer standards with a sensibility slightly different from 2. The error in using these equations for those standards has been evaluated and can be as high as 20 ...

To meet the criteria defined in the universal definition of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), sensitive assays for cardiac troponins I and T have recently been introduced into clinical medicine. Such assays are commonly understood to have a detection limit ,99th percentile of a reference population and a total imprecision at the 99th percentile ≤10%. The analytical performance of these assays,...

The present investigation examines the relation between various clinical measures and the performance of a functional precision grip-lift task. Fifteen children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP), aged 8 to 14 years, and 15 age-matched control children grasped and lifted an object whose surface texture was varied while their fingertip forces were recorded. The force coordination was compared w...

OBJECTIVE To determine, even during postoperative period, the confiability of the cardiac index correlate with the data data given by a central atrial venous blood gasometry in patients who underwent cardiac surgery. METHODS From the sample of arterial and venous blood of right atrium gathered in postoperative of cardiac surgery, it was determinated the hemoglobin concentration and the gasome...

BACKGROUND Despite proven benefits of upper extremity nerve decompression in diabetics, neurolysis for diabetic patients with lower extremity (LE) nerve compression remains controversial. METHODS A search of ClinicalTrials.gov and Cochrane clinical trials registries, CENTRAL (The Cochrane Library), MEDLINE, EMBASE, LILACS, CINAHL, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar from 1962 to 2012, yielded 1956 cit...

The steppe areas of El Bayadh are characterized by a great diversity medicinal plants (South-West Algeria). This work aims to determine the traditional uses in Wilaya (Province) and evaluate their sensibility. ethnobotanical surveys carried out using 400 questionnaire sheets made it possible inventory 40 species belonging 23 botanical families most important family is that Lamiaceae Fabaceae. l...

PURPOSE This study investigated the changes that might occur in passive tactile sensibility during a period of 3 months following Implant placement in a group of edentulous subjects treated with dental implants. The effect of changing the velocity of force application on passive tactile sensibility was also investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Five edentulous subjects who had been treated (as ...

In order to better understand tinnitus and distress associated with tinnitus, psychological variables such as emotional and cognitive processing are a central element in theoretical models of this debilitating condition. Interoception, that is, the perception of internal processes, may be such a psychological factor relevant to tinnitus. Against this background, 20 participants suffering from c...

In 1913 Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose published a monograph (see the coverpage in fig.1) “Researches on irritability of plants”’ [1]. The concept of irritability [2] had its origin in the works of Francis Glisson and Albrecht von Haller [3]. On the basis of experiments performed on animals, Haller emphasised the distinction between ‘sensibility’ and ‘irritability’the ability to perceive a stimulus i...