Introduction Proportional Assist Ventilation (PAV), Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) and SmartCare (SC) are new modes of ventilation that have recently become available on the market. Although these modes have numerous similarities, there are several important differences that clinicians should be aware of to ensure successful and appropriate application of each. The present paper will descri...

The study presented in this article deals with the order of the verbal predicate (V) and its nominal core arguments (Aand P-argument) in declarative transitive clauses in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). A central finding of the study was that at the macro level of FinSL transitive clauses are not ordered in one unambiguous way, but at least three structural combinations of the verbal and its cor...

Although the low molecular weight degradation products of fibrinogen (FgDP) and fibrin (FbDP) are known to inhibit lymphocyte blastogenesis, the effect of purified macro-molecular FgDP and FbDP (molecular weight, 90 to 200 Kd) is unclear. We have examined the effect of these latter FgDP and FbDP and find that products that contain the D domain inhibit lymphocyte proliferation in response to T-c...

Wg/Wnt signals specify cell fates in both invertebrate and vertebrate embryos and maintain stem-cell populations in many adult tissues. Deregulation of the Wnt pathway can transform cells to a proliferative fate, leading to cancer. We have discovered that two Drosophila proteins that are crucial for cytokinesis have a second, largely independent, role in restricting activity of the Wnt pathway....