In order to resolve current controversies on isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN), we employed a particularly sensitive testing protocol to evaluate effects of sublingual ISDN and nitroglycerin on the exercise capacity of patients with angina. Ten minutes after ISDN 21 of 23 patients exercised longer (average 2.7 minutes, P < 0.001) than after placebo. Benefit was evident in only a minority of patients ...

The title compound, [Ni(C(11)H(10)N(2)O(2))(2)](NO(3))(2), consists of an Ni(II) atom coordinated by two tridentate chelating di-2-pyridylmethane-diol [(2-py)(2)C(OH)(2)] ligands. The Ni(II) atom is located on an inversion center. The geometry around the Ni(II) atom is distorted octa-hedral. The gem-diol (2-py)(2)C(OH)(2) ligand adopts the coordination mode η(1):η(1):η(1). The Ni-N and Ni-O bon...

The aim of this paper is to describe the experiments carried out to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of a dynamic-robotic telepathology system for the delivery of pathology services to distant hospitals. The system provides static/dynamic features and the remote control of a robotized microscope over 4 ISDN lines. For evaluation purposes, 184 consecutive cases of frozen sections (60), gastroint...

<rn theMay-June 1996 issue of this magazine, Reigeluth explored the question as to whether or not we need a new paradigm of ISO (I nstructional Systems Development). He discussed how fundamental changes in the suprasystems that ISO serves are creating conditions that require similarly fundamental changes in ISD. He then explored the implications of those broader changes for instructional theori...

In the mononuclear title complex, [Cu(C(16)H(19)N(5))(2)](NO(3))(2), the Cu(II) ion is located on a twofold rotation axis and is six-coordinated by six N atoms from two 2-[bis-(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)meth-yl]pyridine ligands, forming a distorted octa-hedral geometry. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked by weak C-H⋯O inter-actions.

In the structure of the title mol-ecular salt, C10H18N2 (2+)·2NO3 (-), the dinitrate salt of 4-(N,N-di-ethyl-amino)-aniline, the two ethyl groups lie almost perpendicular to the plane of the benzene ring [the ring-to-ethyl C-C-N-C torsion angles are -59.5 (2) and 67.5 (3)°]. The aminium groups of the cation form inter-species N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds with the nitro O-atom acceptors of both anions, ...

Distance education can be divided into synchronous and asynchronous teleteaching according to the event timeline. The quality and diversity of teleteaching approaches depends strongly on the available bandwidth (e. g. teleteaching over ISDN vs. technologies with high bandwidth consumption, like MBONE or real-time ATM transmissions). With the increase of available network capacity teleteaching a...

For the ISDN user-network interface the layer 2 of the D-channel protocol is characterued by a set of independent Link-Access Procedures (LAPD) [5] sharing a common transmission medium. The performance investigation of this protocol which is presented in this paper takes account of two aspects of its application: signalling data transfer and packetued user-data transfer. Approximate solutions a...