The adrenomimetic drugs mimic the effects of adrenergic sympathetic nerve stimulation on sympathetic effectors; these drugs are also referred to as sympathomimetic agents. The adrenergic transmitter norepinephrine and the adrenal medullary hormone epinephrine also are included under this broad heading. The adrenomimetic drugs are an important group of therapeutic agents that can be used to main...

Themainaimofthisarticlewastoinvestigatetheeducationalpotentialofagame-basedmathgame competitiontoengagestudentsintrainingrationalnumbers.Finnishfourth(n=59;Mage=10.36) andsixthgraders(n=105;Mage=12.34)participatedinamathgamecompetitionrelyingonintraclassroomcooperationandinter-classroomcompetition.Duringathree-weekperiod,thestudents w...

Asmussen-Kroese [1] Monte Carlo estimators of P (Sn > u) and P (SN > u) are known to work well in rare event settings when Sn is the sum of n i.i.d. heavy-tailed random variables, and N is a non-negative integer-valued random variable independent of the Xi. In this paper we show how to improve the Asmussen-Kroese estimators of both probabilities when the Xi are non-negative. We also apply our i...

We have constructed Envismo (energy-visualization-mobility), a prototype of a real-time energy-monitoring platform that pairs common mobile Internet devices (Nokia N810 internet tablets) with cheap, readily available environmental sensors and a webbased datastore tied to an existing energy-monitoring network. This allows for the collection of real-time fine-grained environmental and energy usag...

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BACKGROUND Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been shown to be more sensitive than current standard microbiological methods and, therefore, may improve the accuracy of microbiological diagnosis for patients with CAP. METHODS Conventional detection techniques and multiplex real-time PCR for atypical bact...

The effects of a hepaticoactivator, diisopropyl 1, 3-dithiol-2-ylidene malonate (NKK-105), on motoricity and EEG were observed int he rat, mouse, cat and man. NKK-105 suppressed the effects of ethanol (1,000-3,000 mg/kg, p.o., in mice and rats), e.g. the blood alcohol concentration of NKK-105 treated subjects was significantly lower than that of untreated controls. NKK-105, in 100-300 mg/kg p.o...

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