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Sir,—We wish to comment on the study of Espinet and colleagues [1] who investigated the combined effect of thoracic extradural local anaesthetic block and administration of diclofenac either 30 min before or 30 min after skin incision on post-hysterectomy pain and analgesic consumption. They found that the timing of analgesia made no difference to pain scores or postoperative analgesic requirem...

radio frequency identification (rfid) applications have spread all over the world. in order to provide their security and privacy, researchers proposed different kinds of protocols. in this paper, we analyze the privacy of a new protocol, proposed by yu-jehn in 2015 which is based on electronic product code class1 generation 2 (epc c1 g2) standard. by applying the ouafi_phan privacy model, we s...

Our knowledge and understanding of the physiology of acute pain has improved in recent years. Most of this new information has been gathered from basic science and experimental studies. The recent papers by Wall [40] and Woolf [41] have stimulated much discussion on the potential clinical implications of this knowledge for the management of acute postoperative pain, and the concept of "pre-empt...

I pursue here three related aims. First, I criticise some of the metaphysical claims made on behalf of the so-called 'enactive' approach to visual experience. Secondly, I explain why the enactive view of visual experience is hard to square with the evidence in favour of the two-visual-systems model of human vision. Finally, I explore one possible way to develop the 'pre-emptive perception' fram...