In a content analysis of movie violence, we randomly selected twelve top-grossing American war films from four decades (1970 to 2002). We coded for implements of violence, length of violence, gore, and violence directed at noncombatants. We hypothesized that recently released war movies would be more violent than those released earlier. We found that films released since 1990 did contain more v...

Progress in network technologies and protocols is paving the road towards flexible optical transport networks, in which dynamic leasable circuits could be set up and released on a short-term basis according to customers’ requirements. Recently, new solutions for automatized network management promise to allow customers to specify the terms of the service level agreement (SLA) to be guaranteed (...

The production of rod outer segment material and its fate in the retina of the dystrophic rat was studied by autoradiographic technique. The pigment epithelium of the dystrophic rat shows an inability to remove its rod outer segment material. By 36 days of age, photoreceptor outer segment production in the dystrophic rat gradually ceases, although uptake of amino acids by the inner segment stil...

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Analyses of the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in expectations about the likely winner during election day. Analyzing high frequency financial fluctuations following the release of flawed exit...

this study was conducted to determine whether precordial st segment depression in admission electrocardiogram (ecg) in patients with acute phase inferior myocardial infarction (mi) eligible for thrombolytic therapy and subsequent angiographic evaluation, influences the incidence of left anterior descending artery (lad) disease. 31 consecutively admitted patients were entered in our study. 20 pa...

the use of noninvasive assessment tools such as multi-slice ct coronary angiography (msct-ca-ca) is recently considered mainly because it offers safety, patient convenience, and faster performance. the aim of the present study was to determine the ability of msct-ca-ca for the detection of significant stenoses in the coronary arteries, in comparison to conventional invasive coronary angiography...