The Fontan circulation was one of the “big ideas” in congenital heart disease in the 1970s. This completely novel type of circulation was at first the source of some astonishment but, gradually, understanding of its properties progressed and there is now an expanding cohort of patients followed up with stable Fontan circulations. In 1990, on the basis of an observational study of the survival a...

State is one of first concepts political sociology that has an independent entry in sources 20th century. In modern era many thinkers today have spoken about concept state, and there been astonishment chaos definition state but Weber's a reference. He considered to be specific European thought, despite his historical studies on Islam administrative practice Muslims middle ages, view Islamic adm...

This article addresses two often perplexing traits in Plato’s philosophical style: first, the fact that writings are mimetic, despite strong criticisms of mimesis we find therein; second, this not only features constitutive defects inherent to any mimesis, but Plato actually increases its imperfection by adding other manifest defects. Based on epistemological and psychological views taken from ...

A parameter-free and global-oriented method of optimal field synthesis is proposed. The key idea is to consider the boundary of the field region to synthesize as a moving boundary, whose velocity leading to the optimal solution is unknown. The proposed method does not require to solve the transport equation and the adjoint variable problem. The design optimisation of the guard ring in a high-vo...

The article presents the results of research on the influence of the sinusoidal electromagnetic field with a frequency of 50 Hz on the metabolic activity of two cell lines normal BJ and cancer 143b, with different exposure times (0.5 h, 1 h, 2 h and 3 h). It is shown the difference in its effect on cancer and physiological line. In order to analyze the viability there was performed the MTT test...

This issue of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES represents papers presented at the October 1977 conference on the Scientific Aspects of Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB) sponsored by the Michigan State Agricultural Experiment Station at the Kellogg Center for Continuing Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. PBBs were originally synthesized for use as a fire retardant in the...

Barsi Light Railway Co., Kurduwadi The high incidence of leucoma among the rural population of the Dekkan is a fact which, |n our opinion, has not yet received the attention it deserves. Yet, the casual observer in Bombay Presidency will notice with astonishment that in certain up-country stations there ls apparently hardly a single house where not at least one family member is afflicted by tha...

The initial reactions to a bipolar disorder diagnosis of research participants in a small, qualitative study consisted of astonishment, dread of being "mad," and extremely negative associations. All had prior mental health diagnoses, including episodes of severe depression (all but one) and alcoholism (one). All participants reported mental health histories prediagnosis and most had spent years...

In Stanley Kubrick's movie Dr Strangelove, the main character is described as "erratic" and displays a bizarre movement disorder. His right hand seems to be driven by a will of its own, at times clutching his own throat and at other times raising into a Nazi salute. Dr Strangelove must try to restrain this wayward limb with his left hand. Bizarre as this fictional character is, a similar moveme...