The aims of the study were to identify factors that may result in difficulties in intubation, and to compare the results obtained when an experienced and when a less experienced anaesthesiologist was involved. The 96 patients included in the study were evaluated for difficult intubation according to the following scales: Mallampati, upper lip bite test (ULBT) and Patil. The mobility of the cerv...

The first part of this paper finds Craver’s (2007) mutual manipulability theory (MM) of constitution inadequate, as it definitionally ties constitution to the feasibility of idealized experiments, which, however, are unrealizable in principle. As an alternative, the second part develops an abductive theory of constitution (NDC), which exploits the fact that phenomena and their constituents are ...

Philosophical accounts of the constitution relation have been explicated in terms of synchronic relations between higherand lower-level entities. Such accounts, I argue, are temporally austere or impoverished, and are consequently unable to make sense of the diachronic and dynamic character of constitution in dynamical systems generally and dynamically extended cognitive processes in particular...

extended abstract 1. introduction after 11thseptemberand providing background for thoughts of new conservative strategists, doctrine of changing regimes for omitting governments which were against hegemony of the usa, was focused by national security of america. new conservative decision makers with focusing on strategy of changing regime omitting contestant and bankrupt governments and creatin...

constitution is one of the most key concepts in public law that in which set the institutions of power and their relation with each other, and also guaranteed the fundamental freedom and rights of people. so the concept of constitution is different in various counties on the base of political structure and history experiments. in this essay after investigation the concepts and aim of constituti...

In Ayurveda, pulse diagnosis and body constitution diagnosis have a long historical use; still, there is lack of quantitative measure of the reliability of these diagnostic methods. Reliability means consistency of information. Consistent diagnosis leads to consistent treatment and is important for clinical practice, education, and research. The objective of this study is to study the methodolo...