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Burt Dow, deep-water man : a tale of the sea in the classic tradition
Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.
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Fishermen and fisherwomen
Becoming a fisherman or fisherwoman isn't as easy as standing on a dock with a fishing pole, although thats a good place to start. Fishermen and fisherwomen have chosen an exciting and dangerous career path. Readers become immersed in the world of fishing as they learn incredible facts about this career and see full-color photographs of fishermen and fisherwomen in action.
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Set adrift
Explores the role of social origins, family and social networks, and the availability of employment opportunities and social services on fishing households, including the daily dependence of husbands upon their wives? labour and ability.
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Five silly fishermen
A retelling of the traditional tale in which five silly fishermen, unable to count properly, are convinced that one of their group has drowned.
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Guillain–Barré and Miller Fisher syndromes—new diagnostic classification
Several distinct autoimmune neuropathies can be referred to collectively as Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS). Wakerley and colleagues argue that confusing terminology hinders diagnosis, and they present a revised classification of 'classic' GBS, Miller Fisher syndrome and related conditions. This new approach to diagnosis might facilitate work-up, thereby helping to identify the correct treatment as quickly as possible.
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) and its variant, Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS), exist as several clinical subtypes with different neurological features and presentations. Although the typical clinical features of GBS and MFS are well recognized, current classification systems do not comprehensively describe the full spectrum of either syndrome. In this Perspectives article, GBS and MFS are classified on the basis of current understanding of the common pathophysiological profiles of each disease phenotype. GBS is subclassified into classic and localized forms (for example, pharyngeal–cervical–brachial weakness and bifacial weakness with paraesthesias), and MFS is divided into incomplete (for example, acute ophthalmoparesis, acute ataxic neuropathy) and CNS subtypes (Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis). Diagnostic criteria based on clinical characteristics are suggested for each condition. We believe this approach to be more inclusive than existing systems, and argue that it could facilitate early clinical diagnosis and initiation of appropriate immunotherapy.
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Gone
Florida native and fishing guide Hannah Smith uses uncommon resourcefulness, a keen sense of justice, and unorthodox methods to track down a missing girl, a case that puts Hannah on the wrong side of violent adversaries.
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Extensions of the Mandelstam–Tamm quantum speed limit to systems in mixed states
The Mandelstam–Tamm quantum speed limit (QSL) puts a bound on how fast a closed system in a pure state can evolve. In this paper, we derive several extensions of this QSL to closed systems in mixed states. We also compare the strengths of these extensions and examine their tightness. The most widely used extension of the Mandelstam–Tamm QSL originates in Uhlmann’s energy dispersion estimate. We carefully analyze the underlying geometry of this estimate, an analysis that makes apparent that the Bures metric, or equivalently the quantum Fisher information, will rarely give rise to tight extensions. This observation leads us to address whether there is a tightest general extension of the Mandelstam–Tamm QSL. Using a geometric construction similar to that developed by Uhlmann, we prove that this is indeed the case. In addition, we show that tight evolutions of mixed states are typically generated by time-varying Hamiltonians, which contrasts with the case for systems in pure states.
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Prehistoric fisherfolk of Oman : the Neolithic village of Ras Al-Hamra RH-5
Prehistoric Fisherfolk of Oman' reports on excavations at the prehistoric site Ras Al-Hamra RH-5, located on a large promontory in the Qurum area of Muscat, conducted by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Oman with support from the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism. The site dates from the late fifth to the end of the fourth millennia BC and comprises an accumulation of superimposed food discards deriving from continuous and repeated subsistence activities such as fishing, collecting shells, hunting and herding. Dwellings and household installations, including objects of daily use and ornaments, have also been found throughout the occupation sequence. Excavations at RH-5 yielded unprecedented data on the economic and social dynamics of Neolithic societies in eastern Arabia. The exploitation of different ecological niches supplied all the necessary requirements for year-round sedentary human occupation. The lifestyle of fisher-gatherer communities during the Middle Holocene represents a fundamental step of the neolithisation process in Oman.
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Antecedent infections in Fisher syndrome: sources of variation in clinical characteristics
The clinical features of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) are highly variable, according to the type of antecedent infection. Although a major GBS phenotype, Fisher syndrome (FS), has been shown to be preceded by infections similar to those preceding GBS, whether or not the clinical features in FS also vary according to antecedent infection remains unclarified. Frequent antecedent infections among this study of 70 FS patients included Haemophilus influenzae [n = 15 (21%)], Campylobacter jejuni [n = 10 (14%)], and cytomegalovirus (CMV) [n = 6 (8.6%)]. Compared with other FS patients, H. influenzae-seropositive FS patients more frequently had a history of prior upper respiratory tract infection; double vision as the initial symptom; and, except for oculomotor disturbance, more rarely showed cranial nerve involvement. C. jejuni-related FS occurred predominantly in younger male patients and characteristically presented with blurred vision. According to GBS disability scale, CMV-related FS tended to be more severe, although every patient received immunotherapy. Serum anti-GQ1b IgG antibodies were detected in most cases, regardless of antecedent infection type. At the nadir of illness, the most frequent diagnosis in H. influenzae-related cases was “pure FS” without limb weakness or central nervous system involvement (71%), in C. jejuni-related cases “incomplete FS” such as acute ophthalmoparesis with or without ataxia (60%), and in CMV-related cases (50%) advanced conditions such as GBS overlap and Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis. These findings indicate that the type of preceding infection determined the neurological features of FS. CMV-related FS appeared to be similar to H. influenzae- and C. jejuni-related FS regarding anti-GQ1b antibody-mediated pathogenesis, as opposed to CMV-related GBS.
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