The present paper attempts to explore the body in relation theatricality Bode Jatra, tongue-piercing festival of Newar community Bode, Bhaktapur. study treats as territorial site foreground how performance becomes theatrical, taking performativity tongue-piercing, its text. raving tongue piercing generates an expression cosmogonic consciousness. It encompasses movement both from micro and macro...

INTRODUCTION Patients with COPD have impaired respiratory muscle strength. Twitch mouth pressure (Ptw,m) in response to magnetic stimulation of the cervical nerve has been suggested to clinically reflect inspiratory muscle strength. However, studies on Ptw,m values and their relationship with disease severity are limited. Thus, we tested the Ptw,m values of subjects with COPD and investigated t...

OBJECTIVES To study the relationship between the level of physical activity in daily life and disease severity assessed by the BODE index in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS Sixty-seven patients with COPD (36 men) with forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV(1)) of 39 (27-47)% predicted and age of 66 (61-72) years old were evaluated by spirometry, ...

BACKGROUND Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often experience depression and anxiety, but little information is available regarding Chinese patients with these conditions. The present study assessed depression and anxiety in Chinese patients with COPD. METHODS A case-controlled study was designed with 1100 patients with COPD enrolled in the case group and1100 resident...

*Correspondence: Juergen Bode, GBF, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Mascheroder Weg 1, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany; Tel +49(0)531 6181 5200; Fax +49(0)531 6181 5002; [email protected]

Background: Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) has been applied during pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, it remains unclear if the addition of IMT to a general exercise training program leads to additional clinically relevant improvements in patients with COPD. Aim of the Study: The aim of this study was to investigate whether the ad...

BACKGROUND This study analyzed the comprehensive 2-year outcome of nonresectional lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) in awake patients, including calculation of the multidimensional BODE index (body mass index, degree of airflow obstruction assessed by spirometry, modified Medical Research Council dyspnea grade, and 6-minute walking distance), which has proved a useful predictor of survival i...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of sarcopenia in COPD patients, as well as to determine whether sarcopenia correlates with the severity and prognosis of COPD. METHODS A cross-sectional study with COPD patients followed at the pulmonary outpatient clinic of our institution. The patients underwent dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The diagnosis of sarcopenia was made on the basis of the sk...

In the design of a signal processing network, control system, or other analog system, it is usually necessary to work with frequency-dependent transfer functions and impedances, and to construct Bode diagrams. The Bode diagram is a log-log plot of the magnitude and phase of an impedance, transfer function, or other frequency-dependent complex-valued quantity, as a function of the frequency of a...