... of motor and autonomic nerves. Respiratory failure can be rapid and may occur before other symptoms or signs become apparent. It has been suggested that patients suspected of having botulism should be managed in a critical care environment. Management is largely supportive together with administration...

... to developmental changes in neuromuscular transmission and body composition. Infants are sensitive to the effects of non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents due to a lack of acetylcholine in developing motor nerves. However, this is largely counterbalanced by the distribution of the drugs into a larger...

... established in re Application of Musgrave. ³ Broadly speaking, this decision stipulated that inventions comprising largely abstract subject matter, such as business methods, programs, or theories, had to relate to a computer, automated means, or apparatus of some kind for them...

... is given as a constant rate infusion, steady-state concentration will only be achieved after four to five half-lives. Partial pressure largely determines the behaviour of an inhaled drug. For maintenance of anaesthesia, a predictable steady state is easier to achieve with an inhalational agent than...

... vocal dissatisfaction had not yet turned to open dissent. The reform effort failed largely because the regency government of Mary of Guise undermined it. In particular, she refused to balance the attempted appeal to disaffected Catholics with a crackdown on convinced Protestants. The episode can...

...0 14 10 2004 Writing a chapter on the development of synesthesia poses a special The stems largely from the paucity of evidence that speaks directly to the origins and developmental time-course of synesthesia. To be sure, our understanding of basic processes in sensation and perception...

..., not on the basis of ideology in terms of labour versus capital, or on reformism versus conservatism, but largely (although not exclusively) on the basis of race. This was despite some attempt by the NFP to present itself as the champion of Fiji’s lower socio-economic classes regardless of race. The Alliance...

...0 29 08 1991 During the 1930s there was a growing concern for applying social psychology to an in creasing number of social problems brought on by the Great Depression. The concern with social issues did not suddenly commence in the 1930s. Sociological social psychology had developed largely...

... industry’s housing stock had suffered particularly badly. Of 311,362 dwellings, 237,492 had either been destroyed or damaged. Underground workings had been largely spared, but above ground installations had been severely affected, especially cokeries, by-products works, and, above all, colliery companies...

... and Adolph 1996). However, while the focus of theoretical and empirical work has been largely on single traits, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to examine multiple traits and determine how they work together in producing an integrated organism. In this chapter, I argue that while it requires...

...0 21 06 2006 The seven pelican species are closely related and, with cormorants, anhingids, and sulids form the core of the Order. They are largely freshwater birds whose breeding biology is dominated by the need to catch large quantities of fish comparatively near to the breeding colony...

...0 01 12 2005 Recent poststructuralist theory has rejected the notion of a literary canon, largely on the now-familiar grounds that the canonical works univocally speak the ideology of a hegemonic class, thus marginalizing such groups as blacks, women, and the working class. Of particular...

...0 11 07 2002 The fiscal impact of immigration figures prominently in recent debates over US immigration policy. The issue has attracted attention only recently, as the 1980s and 1990s were the first decades in which there were both large immigrant inflows and a relatively generous welfare state...

...); perhaps earlier if dates from Bluefish Cave, Meadowcroft, Monte Verde, and other South American sites prove accurate. The lives of these first inhabitants have been reconstructed with a heavy reliance on ethnographic analogies to Arctic or Subarctic large game hunting cultures. Given the bias towards...

... of realist attention from ‘rule-skepticism’ to ‘fact-skepticism’.1 From a different perspective, Wigmore’s attempt to develop an interdisciplinary theory of evidence and proof, incorporating the legal, logical, psychological, and scientific aspects of the subject fell largely on deaf ears.2 In more recent...

... seem that in philosophy an empiricist approach to science has been largely abandoned just as in psychology behaviourism now belongs to history. But the interest philosophers take in the proper conduct of psychological research has remained and become more intense over the last two decades. Among...

... of the murders of Athaulf and Sigeric, the accession of Wallia, and the settlement in Aquitaine in 418, Theoderic ‘s reign had been largely peaceful, although it should not therefore be assumed that minor Gothic war lords had lost their taste for plunder and its. attendant military confrontations. Goths...

...0 26 03 2009 The modern history of ancient and medieval magic is vast and often inaccessible to the non-expert, yet there is much to catch the imagination and challenge our understanding of religion and society in past eras. While European grimoires were largely a product of the medieval period...

...0 18 12 2008 This content is only available as a PDF. physicians information involved regional largely Like physicians, apothecaries were often involved in sixteenth-century natural history. Yet it is not so easy to find information about what they actually contributed to this field...

... effects. While methods for extracting excellent structural information from ordered arrays of macromolecules have gradually evolved using both crystallographic and electron microscopic approaches (1, 2, 3), individual macromolecules are still largely analysed using electron microscopy together with metal...