Transcatheter renal denervation for the treatment of resistant arterial hypertension: the Swiss expert consensus.

Transcatheter (or percutaneous) renal denervation is a novel technique developed for the treatment of resistant hypertension. So far, only one randomised controlled trial has been published, which has shown a reduction of office blood pressure. The Swiss Society of Hypertension, the Swiss Society of Cardiology, The Swiss Society of Angiology and the Swiss Society of Interventional Radiology decided to establish recommendations to practicing physicians and specialists for good clinical practice. The eligibility of patients for transcatheter renal denervation needs (1.) confirmation of truly resistant hypertension, (2.) exclusion of secondary forms of hypertension, (3.) a multidisciplinary decision confirming the eligibility, (4.) facilities that guarantee procedural safety and (5.) a long-term follow-up of the patients, if possible in cooperation with a hypertension specialist. These steps are essential until long-term data on safety and efficacy are available.

Catalogue d'une importante collection de vignettes par ou d'après Borel, Choffard, Eisen, Gravelot, Lebarbier, Marillier, Monnet, Moreau le jeune, Queverdo et autres, Portraits des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Estampes, dessins des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, autographes, suites de figures, composant la collection de Mr H. de G. La vente aura lieu du lundi 27 février au mercredi 8 mars 1893... 28 rue des Bons-Enfants... / Me Maurice Delestre, commissaire-priseur ; [expert] M. Ch. Porquet, libraire, M. P. Roblin, marchand d'estampes

[Vente. Art. 1893-02-27 - 1893-03-08. Paris]

Catalogue d'une collection très importante de planches gravées en tous genres par les maîtres et artsites les plus célèbres du XVe au XIXe siècle, formant la 1re partie du fonds de commerce d'éditeur d'estampes de Mme veuve Auguste Jean, dont la vente, par cessation définitive de commerce, aura lieu... les lundi 2, mardi 3, mercredi 4 et jeudi 5 février 1846... Hôtel de ventes mobilières, place de la Bourse, 2... / Me Merlin, commissaire-priseur ; M. Vallée, expert, rue de Chartres-Saint-Honoré, n° 8...

[Vente. Art. 1846-02-02 - 1846-02-05. Paris]

Catalogue des planches gravées en tous genres par les plus célèbres graveurs du XVe au XIXe siècle, composant le fonds de commerce d'éditeur d'estampes de Mme Vve Auguste Jean. Deuxième partie dont la vente, par continuation et par suite de cessation de commerce, aura lieu les mardi 16, mercredi 17, jeudi 18 et vendredi 19 juin 1846 et le lundi suivant, 22 juin, pour les cartes géographiques... Hôtel de ventes mobilières, place de la Bourse, n° 2... / Me Merlin, commissaire-priseur ; M. J. Vallée, expert, rue de Chartres-Dt.-Honoré, 8

[Vente. Art. 1846-06-16 - 1846-06-22. Paris]

Catalogue des planches gravées en tous genres par les plus célèbres graveurs du XVe au XIXe siècle, composant le fonds de commerce d'éditeur d'estampes de Mme Vve Auguste Jean. Troisième partie dont la vente, par continuation et par suite de cessation de commerce, aura lieu les mardi 24, mercredi 25, jeudi 26, vendredi 27 et samedi 28 novembre 1846... Hôtel de ventes mobilières, place de la Bourse, n° 2... / Me Merlin, commissaire-priseur ; M. J. Vallée, expert, rue de Chartres-Dt.-Honoré, 8

[Vente (Art). 1846-11-24 - 1846-11-28. Paris]

Catalogue des tableaux modernes dont la vente aura lieu... le lundi 19 février 1872... : collection de feu le bon Michel de Trétaigne / [expert] Francis Petit

[Vente. Art. 1872-02-19. Paris]

Catalogue des diamants anciens, émeraudes, saphirs, rubis, perles, camées appartenant à S. M. la reine Isabelle de Bourbon dont la vente aura lieu à Paris,... rue Druot... le lundi 1er juillet 1878, et jours suivants... / [expert] Dumoret

[Vente. Bijoux. 1878-07-01. Paris]

Teacher survival : staying alive in the job of teaching /

This study presents information gathered during personal interviews with dynamic and capable teachers in the areas of preparedness for teaching, teaching concerns, survival skills and strategies, and how these teachers support themselves and others in the teaching profession. The data are related to Purkey and Novak's work on invitational education and connections are made to Combs' perceptual orientation. Potential participants were gathered through personal recommendations from their colleagues. All teachers recommended were approached and asked for voluntary participation. Of those who agreed to participate, 6 were selected based on gender and years of experience. There was a male and female participant at each of the following career levels: early, mid, and late. The 4 major survival skills that became apparent were the ability to believe in oneself and others, to act decisively upon that belief through personal and professional goal-setting as well as accessing resources, to actively seek opportunities for interaction with other professionals, and to celebrate personal and professional successes.

Other-race faces : limitations of expert face recognition /

Adults' expert face recognition is limited to the kinds of faces they encounter on a daily basis (typically upright human faces of the same race). Adults process own-race faces holistically (Le., as a gestalt) and are exquisitely sensitive to small differences among faces in the spacing of features, the shape of individual features and the outline or contour of the face (Maurer, Le Grand, & Mondloch, 2002), however this expertise does not seem to extend to faces from other races. The goal of the current study was to investigate the extent to which the mechanisms that underlie expert face processing of own-race faces extend to other-race faces. Participants from rural Pennsylvania that had minimal exposure to other-race faces were tested on a battery of tasks. They were tested on a memory task, two measures of holistic processing (the composite task and the part/whole task), two measures of spatial and featural processing (the JanelLing task and the scrambledlblurred faces task) and a test of contour processing (JanelLing task) for both own-and other-race faces. No study to date has tested the same participants on all of these tasks. Participants had minimal experience with other-race faces; they had no Chinese family members, friends or had ever traveled to an Asian country. Results from the memory task did not reveal an other-race effect. In the present study, participants also demonstrated holistic processing of both own- and other-race faces on both the composite task and the part/whole task. These findings contradict previous findings that Caucasian adults process own-race faces more holistically than other-race faces. However participants did demonstrate an own-race advantage for processing the spacing among features, consistent with two recent studies that used different manipulations of spacing cues (Hayward et al. 2007; Rhodes et al. 2006). They also demonstrated an other-race effect for the processing of individual features for the Jane/Ling task (a direct measure of featural processing) consistent with previous findings (Rhodes, Hayward, & Winkler, 2006), but not for the scrambled faces task (an indirect measure offeatural processing). There was no own-race advantage for contour processing. Thus, these results lead to the conclusion that individuals may show less sensitivity to the appearance of individual features and the spacing among them in other-race faces, despite processing other-race faces holistically.

Teacher professional growth in an authentic learning environment

The last several decades have been marked by tremendous changes in education - technological, pedagogical, administrative, and social. These changes have led to considerable increments in the budgets devoted to professional development for teachers ~ with the express purpose of helping them accommodate their practices to the new realities oftheir classrooms. However, research has suggested that, in spite of the emphasis placed on encouraging sustained change in teaching practices, little has been accomplished. This begs the question of what ought to be done to not only reverse this outcome, but contribute to transformational change. The literature suggests some possibilities including: a) considering teachers as learners and applying what, is known about cognition and learning; b) modifying the location and nature ofprofessional development so that it is authentic, based in the classroom and focusing on tasks meaningful to the teacher; c) attending to the infrastructure underlying professional development; and d) ensuring opportunities for reflective practice. This dissertation looks at the impact of each ofthese variables through an analysis ofthe learning journeys of a group ofteachers engaged in a program called GrassRoots in one midsized school board in Ontario. Action research was conducted by the researcher in his role as consultant facilitating teacher professional growth around the use of Web sites as culminating performance tasks by students. Research focused on the pedagogical approach to the learning of the teachers involved and the infrastructure underlying their learning. Using grounded theory, a model for professional development was developed that can be used in the future to inform practices and, hopefully, lead to sustained transformational school change.