THE ROLE OF THE PRESSURE IN THE ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE CUFF IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IATROGENIC TRACHEAL INJURIES


Affordances of an international campus for intercultural learning: Views from MA students and faculty in two US-based teacher education programs

This paper reports on a qualitative study which is part of a larger project on the affordances of an international campus for intercultural (IC) learning.The research examined two MA programs at a US postgraduate institution, TESOL and International Education Management, and two groups of participants, 9 students and 8 faculty members.The participa

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No significant effect of frequent online sexual behaviour on Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT): Implications for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder

Reward based learning is broadly acknowledged to underpin the development and maintenance of addictive behaviour although the mechanism in sexual compulsivity is less understood.Using a Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) task we tested whether the motivational aspect of conditioned Pavlovian conditioned stimulus invigorated instrumental respo

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Evaluation of the available cholesterol concentration in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane of mammalian cells

Cholesterol is an essential component of the mammalian plasma membrane involved in diverse cellular processes.Our recent quantitative imaging analysis using ratiometric cholesterol sensors showed that the available cholesterol concentration in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane (IPM) is low in unstimulated cells and increased in a stimulus-sp

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