It is not uncommon to hear university students complain about boring classes. The negative effects of boredom, which are at times larger than that of anxiety, have resulted in a concerted effort from researchers to identify causes of learners’ boredom and recommend strategies to mitigate this emotion. However, the research has overlooked the possibility that emotions may be transmitted from ins...

Somatic sensation is overwhelmingly felt as the result of mechanical stimulation or movement of the body or its parts. Indeed almost all tissues of the body receive an innervation from the peripheral axons of mechanosensitive sensory neurons with their cell body in the dorsal root or trigeminal ganglia. Remarkably, the mechanisms and molecules used by sensory neurons to transform mechanical for...

Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) is a leading non-genetic cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and an important neurodevelopmental delay.1,2 Vestibular hypofunction can result in gross motor delay, hypotonia, postural instability, lack spatial awareness. physiotherapy safety advice may be indicated. Studies have shown vestibular impairment to common children with cCMV, both those with, w...

Methane oxidation in the rhizosphere of wetland plants may significantly attenuate methane losses from wetland soils to the atmosphere. Our objective was to measure the extent of methane production and oxidation in the rhizosphere of a common wetland plant (Sagittaria landfolia L. Per.). Methyl fluoride (CH3F), a water-soluble gas and a specific inhibitor of methane oxidation, was used in conju...

TO THE EDITOR: In a 2009 article, Sieber et al. (4), having found “normal” blood pressures (BPs) using a sphygmomanometric method in subjects performing breath-hold dives to 10 m of depth, suggested that the very high BPs we recorded invasively in two healthy expert breath-hold divers diving to 6 ATA (50 m) in our pressure chamber (2) were artifacts caused by our recording system. They also arg...

The decomposition of deep peat deposits controls the long-term carbon balance of peatlands but is poorly understood with respect to rates and controls. To rectify this deficiency, we estimated in situ dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and methane (CH4) production rates from a beaver pond to a central bog dome and related them to organic matter properties, Gibbs free energies of respiration, and ...

The authors compared the efficacy of a self-applied modified Semont maneuver (MSM) with self-treatment with a modified Epley procedure (MEP) in 70 patients with posterior canal benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. The response rate after 1 week, defined as absence of positional vertigo and torsional/upbeating nystagmus on positional testing, was 95% in the MEP group (n 37) vs 58% in the MSM gr...

T. D. Henning, J. S. Bauer, T. Frenzel, E. J. Sutton, Y. Fu, H. E. Daldrup-Link Radiology, UCSF, San Francisco, California, United States, Schering AG, Berlin, Germany Introduction. Promising applications of stem cell based therapy include the replacement of defective tissue in patients with diseases such as diabetes or Parkinson’s (1). To evaluate the success of engraftment, it is important to...

Sonoluminescence, the transduction of sound into light, is a phenomenon that pushes fluid mechanics beyond its limit. An initial state with long wavelength and low Mach number, such as is realized for a gas bubble driven by an audible sound field, spontaneously focuses the energy density so as to generate supersonic motion and a different phase of matter, from which are then emitted picosecond ...

Institutionally, significant advancements in rape law reform have occurred. Culturally, police officers sometimes fail to adopt these changes. A survey designed to assess acceptance of rape myths was administered to 891 police officers in two southeastern states. The study found that the majority of police officers view the overall crime of rape as a serious one, however, approximately 6% provi...