Physicians treat chronic hypertension almost exclusively in ambulatory care settings according to evidence-based guidelines1 based on blood pressure (BP) measurements obtained under prescribed conditions.2 Other recommendations cover how to deal with hypertension in dialysis units2 and emergency departments,3 but none address a very commonly encountered problem: what to do about acutely elevate...

Background: Previous studies have shown that morphine consumption during pregnancy may delay embryo development or cause abnormal nervous system function .The most attention of research focuses on the embryo, whereas it was not attended to the placenta as an important organ which is affected by opioides. The present study focused on the effect of maternal morphine consumption on development of ...

Introduction This edited collection approaches the ‘studio’ as a key site for the production of cultural artefacts, and in doing so it aims to open up a novel and underdeveloped topic for social and cultural research. As the various chapters of this book will demonstrate, studios play an essential role in the bringing into being of all manner of aesthetic, affective and reflexive objects includ...

This work reports the development of new non-thrombogenic polymers based on the linear polymers of polyamidoamines (PAAs), having heparin binding ability, obtained by polyaddition of secondary amines to N,N'-methylene bis-acrylamide. PAAs could not be used directly in the making of blood-contacting materials due to their poor mechanical strength. In order to overcome this lacuna, copolymers of ...

The mono-dispersed crosslinked polymeric multi-lacuna nanocapsules (CP(St-OA) nanocapsules) about 40 nm with carboxylic groups on their inner and outer surfaces were fabricated in the present work. The small conglomerations of the oleic acid modified spindle-like alpha-Fe(2)O(3) nanoparticles (OA-Fe(2)O(3)) were encapsulated in the facile microemulsion polymerization with styrene (St) as monome...

INTRODUCTION Arthritis induces joint erosions and skeletal bone fragility. OBJECTIVES The main goal of this work was to analyze the early arthritis induced events at bone architecture and mechanical properties at tissue level. METHODS Eighty-eight Wistar rats were randomly housed in experimental groups, as follows: adjuvant induced arthritis (AIA) (N = 47) and a control healthy group (N = 4...

Wegner (2002) argues that conscious will is an illusion, citing a wide range of empirical evidence. I shall begin by surveying some of his arguments. Many are unsuccessful. But one − an argument from the ubiquity of self-interpretation − is more promising. Yet is suffers from an obvious lacuna, offered by so-called ‘dual process’ theories of reasoning and decision making (Evans and Over, 1996; ...

Population increases of the gastropod Lacuna vincta have been associated with significant damage to kelp blades and decreases in kelp biomass in subtidal kelp beds off Nova Scotia, Canada. We measured the total level and along-blade distribution of grazing damage by Lacuna vincta on the dominant kelp species at 5 sites in Nova Scotia, Canada, over a 15 mo period. Grazing was typically low or ab...