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The procedure was implemented after a series of incidents where conductors opened the doors on the wrong side of the train. The procedure is used to focus the conductor's attention. [14] Streetcar operators are required to confirm track switch alignments by stopping at a switch, pointing to the switch with their index finger, and then ...
Shisa are wards, believed to protect from some evils. People place pairs of shisa on their rooftops or flanking the gates to their houses, with the left shisa traditionally having a closed mouth, the right one an open mouth. [1] The open mouth shisa traditionally wards off evil spirits, and the closed mouth shisa keeps good spirits in.
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After a forced expiration, an attempt at inspiration is made with closed mouth and nose, whereby the negative pressure in the chest and lungs is made very subatmospheric; the reverse of a Valsalva maneuver. This technique is designed to look for collapsed sections of airways such as the trachea and upper airways. In this maneuver, the patient ...
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Official cause and origin of fire remain under investigation. Spencer Fire and Emergency Services shared a post saying two families "lost everything tonight and a third had damage to their home ...
The technique is named after Antonio Maria Valsalva, [2] [3] a 17th-century physician and anatomist from Bologna whose principal scientific interest was the human ear. He described the Eustachian tube and the maneuver to test its patency (openness).
with closed mouth (sometimes abbreviated B.C.) bravura Boldness; as in con bravura, boldly, flaunting technical skill breit (Ger.) Broad bridge. Transitional passage connecting two sections of a composition, or between two A sections (e.g., in an A/B/A form).