Of the hospitals that participated in the study, 22 (81.5%) were district level, 3 (11.1%) regional and 2 (7.4%) central hospitals. All 27 hospitals had a defibrillator present in the EC, the number varying from 1 (16 hospitals, 59.3%) to more than 3 (1 hospital, 3.7%). Defibrillator specification varied between facilities: 67% had biphasic, 15% monophasic and 18% both monoand biphasic defibril...

Self-construal is thought to mediate and explain the effects of culture on a wide variety of outcome variables. A meta-analysis of published cross-cultural self-construal research is reported in this article, and the results across studies suggests that the evidence for the predicted cultural differences is weak, inconsistent, or nonexistent. The results of 3 priming experiments (N = 121, N = 9...

AIM To re-examine and expand understanding of the concept 'lack of anonymity' as a component of rural nursing theory. BACKGROUND Early healthcare literature reports lack of anonymity as part of social and working environments, particularly rural nursing. Rural nursing theory included the first published concept analysis on lack of anonymity but lacked empirical referents. Workforce, societal ...

The paper presents a new steganographic method called LACK (Lost Audio PaCKets Steganography) which is intended mainly for VoIP. The method is presented in a broader context of network steganography and of VoIP steganography in particular. The analytical results presented in the paper concern the influence of LACK’s hidden data insertion procedure on the method’s impact on quality of voice tran...

background: vitiligo is an acquired skin disorder that selectively destroys melanocytes in epidermis with an unknown etiology.   objective: to investigate the exon 1 a49g polymorphism of cytotoxic t lymphocyte antigen-4 (ctla-4) gene in vitiligo patients.   methods: the a49g polymorphism was detected by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) method in 101 ...

Experimental studies on children’s understanding of indefinite NPs and negation report a systematic non-adult interpretation of sentences like ‘‘The detective didn’t find some guys’’ (see Musolino 1998). In this article, we question whether these findings require a grammatical explanation. We draw upon the observation that negative statements are generally used to point out discrepancies betwee...

Dear Editor, I read with interest the recent discussion on the ENGAGE-AF trial written by Kaba et al. The authors provide a comprehensive discussion of the novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC), Edoxaban. However, it is important to remind the readers that although NOACs are being promoted as first line for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, there is considerable risk of bleeding associated wi...

This article aims at making readers, experimentalists and theorists, more aware of the abstractions made by an observer when measuring and reporting behavioral and neural timescales. These abstractions stow away the fact that, above lower boundaries that reflect fairly well understood physical constraints, observed and reported timescales are often not intrinsic to the biological system; rather...