EMPHASIZING THE SHOCK-INDUCED MICRODEFORMATIONS H. Nishido, K. Ninagawa, M. Sakamoto, A. Gucsik ([email protected]), T. Okumura, S. Toyoda, Sz. Bérczi and Sz. Nagy, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Okayama, 700-0005, Japan; Neba Elementary School, 80 Neba Village, Nagano, 395-0701, Japan; University of West Hungary, Bajcsy-Zs. u. 4., Sopron, H-9400, Hungary; Eötvös Lóránd Un...

The study of dream activity and its relation to physiological variables during sleep necessitates a reliable method of determining with precision when dreaming occurs. This knowledge, in the final analysis, always depends upon the subjective report of the dreamer, but becomes relatively objective if such reports can be significantly related to some physiological phenomena which in turn can be m...

BEING ASLEEP AT THE TIME OF RESIDUAL FIRE IS AN IMPORTANT RISK FACTOR FOR FIRE-RELATED DEATH.1 CONVENTIONAL RESIDENTIAL SMOKE ALARMS generally produce a tone of 85 dB, which will awaken most sleeping adults.2,3 However, studies of auditory arousal thresholds during sleep have shown that a much higher average stimulus intensity is required to elicit arousals in children than in adults, and that ...

Abstract A comparative study of early Buddhist textual accounts the Buddha’s awakening helps to put into perspective impression that these texts present competing theories liberating insight and realization. Although actual event would be a non-conceptual breakthrough experience Nirvana, its ramifications can expressed with diagnostic scheme four truths, as way conveying in words what principle...

BACKGROUND The pathophysiological mechanism causing awakening blood pressure (BP) rise is not clear. CASE REPORT We report the case of a 66-year-old man with a history of spinal cord injury, and who had remarkable awakening BP rise in ambulatory BP monitoring. The patient also had orthostatic hypotension and post-prandial hypotension associated with an increased insulin level. This case sugge...

OBJECTIVES To determine the awakening arterial blood concentration of desflurane and its relationship with the end-tidal concentration during emergence from various durations of general anesthesia. METHOD In total, 42 American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status class I-II female patients undergoing elective gynecologic surgery were enrolled. General anesthesia was maintained with fi...