" Even in cases of so-called beri-beri is the presence of the anchylostoma in them convincing evidence that they alone cause tbe disease and in the way suggested ? I think not."?Surg.-Major Dobson, Assam.?Report, 1892,^;. 66. " I altogether doubt the existence of any specific disease to which the term ankylostomiasis can be justly applied. * * * I maintain that it has yet to be shown that the p...

From the LEP precision data, upon excluding the observables Rb, Rc in a combined fit of the top-quark mass, mt, and the Higgs-boson mass, MH, within the Standard Model, we find the weak 1σ bound of 40GeV < ∼ MH < ∼ 1TeV. Stronger upper bounds on MH, sometimes presented in the literature, rely heavily on the inclusion of Rb in the data sample. Upon including Rb, the quality of the fit drasticall...

Survival from a malignant hyperthermia (MH) crisis is highly dependent on early recognition and prompt action. MH crises are very rare and an increasing use of total i.v. anaesthesia is likely to make it even rarer, leading to the potential risk of reduced awareness of MH. In addition, dantrolene, the cornerstone of successful MH treatment, is unavailable in large areas around the world thereby...

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AIMS To facilitate the use of Biobrane for those burn care practitioners not familiar with this material. METHODS Two techniques have been developed through extensive use of Biobrane over many years, in both sheet and glove form. These techniques have been described and illustrated with photographs. RESULTS The use of these techniques has allowed the corresponding author to markedly reduce ...

Writing is "good" when it anticipates the knowledge that its readers will bring to it-the questions they will implicitly ask-and tailors its content and form accordingly. A large part of this tailoring involves the careful use of "discourse clues": choices of wording, patterns of phrasing, and specific discourse connectives that signal the structure and intent of a text to the audience. We begi...

Binocular vision is obviously useful for depth perception, but it might also enhance other components of visual processing, such as image segmentation. We used naturalistic images to determine whether giving an object a stereoscopic offset of 15-120 arcmin of crossed disparity relative to its background would make the object easier to recognize in briefly presented (33-133 ms), temporally maske...