Dr. Nott's papers, the first of which appeared in the British Medical Journal of 1925, attracted considerable attention. The author of these papers had a difficult task before him in that he advocated a simple line of treatment which had, in his hands, proved successful in an unexpectedly divergent variety of cases. The treatment consists of the combination of two therapeutic agents, thyroid an...

Article history: Received 21 September 2011 Received in revised form 20 December 2011 Accepted 5 January 2012 Available online 11 January 2012 Communicated by A.R. Bishop We investigate the feedback control of a periodically driven FitzHugh–Nagumo circuit (FHN), which displays both spiking and non-spiking behaviors in chaotic or periodic regimes. The simple high pass filter (washout filter) is ...

Four organic loading disturbances were performed in lab-scale EGSB reactors fed with ethanol. In load disturbance 1 (LD1) and 2 (LD2), the organic loading rate (OLR) was increased between 5 and 18.5 kg COD m(-3) day(-1), through the influent ethanol concentration increase, and the hydraulic retention time decrease from 7.8 to 2.5 h, respectively. Load disturbances 3 (LD3) and 4 (LD4) were appli...

UNLABELLED The clinical characteristics of reversible left ventricular dysfunction due to "takotsubo" cardiomyopathy have been described, but the origin of this condition remains unclear. This study investigated (123)I-metaiodobenzlguanidine ((123)I-MIBG) myocardial scintigraphy in patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy. METHODS Eight consecutive patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy were st...

BACKGROUND One of the frequent symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is tremor which can severely cause disability. Treatment of tremor in MS patients is still very challenging to manage. In this study, we sought to determine the efficacy of Levetiracetam on treatment of MS-related tremor. MATERIALS AND METHODS This clinical trial study was conducted among 22 patients from July 2012 to April 20...

With regard to reconstructing the gamma background dose rate, existing models are either empirical with limited applicability or have many unknown input parameters, which complicates their application in practice. Due this, there is a need search for new approach and build convenient, easily applicable universal model. The paper proposes mathematical model temporal evolution of ambient equivale...

It is likely that a close association exists between findings obtained by two methods: dobutamine stress echocardiography and 123I-MIBG scintigraphy. Both of these methods are associated with beta-adrenergic receptor mechanisms. This study was conducted to demonstrate the relation between myocardial response to dobutamine stress and sympathetic nerve release of norepinephrine in the failing hea...