DURING the past decade vascular malformations of the superior mediastinum have been the object of intense clinical interest. However, the occurrence of anomalies of the pulmonary artery as a cause of tracheobronchial obstruction has gone almost unrecognized. We previously reported 3 cases in which significant respiratory obstruction was produced by a left pulmonary artery coursing anomalously a...

Objective: To evaluate the effect o f reflexo logy on symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) in a randomized, sham-contro lled clinical tr ial. Methods: Seventy-one MS patients were randomized to either study or contro l group, to receive an 11-week treatment. Reflexology treatment included manual pressure on specific points in the feet and massage of the calf area. The contro l group received non...

The paper discusses how the resource contro l hypothesis introduced earlier by the author accounts for the rather mysterious fact that English articles are rendered in Slavoniclanguages by word order and vice versa. The def ini te versus indefini te d is t inct ion is viewed as a manifestation of the variable depth of nominal phrase processing. The depth of processing is determined by the avail...

T g anism and a machine holds true to a remarkable extent at all levels at which it is investigated. To be sure, living things are machines with exceptional powers, set apart from other machi~les by their ability to adapt to the environment and to reproduce themselves. Yet in all their functions they seem to obey mechanistic laws. An organism can be compared to an automatic factory. Its various...

The speech act theory by J.L.Austin and the conception of degree strength illocutionary force (point) J.R. Searle D.Vanderveken underlies study exercitive as objection/protest expressed prepositions contro against ‘против’. Historically, protest a genre goes back to Ancient rhetorical tradition, but in 20th century, it has also become an aesthetic foundation Avant-garde poetic discourse. expres...