AMERICAN POLKA IN THE MEDIA: FROM NEXT TO NOTHING TO 24/7

American Polka in the Media: From Next to Nothing to 24/7

From its very inception as a nineteenth century popular culture fad, the media presence of polka FM music has been crucial to its diffusion.In the 1940s and 1950s, polka enjoyed a high profile in American mass media.By the 1990s this presence was reduced to next to nothing.The advent of digital media has generated new platforms for the creation and

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Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function in thyrotoxicosis and implications for the therapeutics of thyrotoxic cardiac disease

Raphael C Anakwue,1,2 Basden J Onwubere,2 Vincent Ikeh,2 Benedict Anisiuba,2 Samuel Ike,2 Angel-Mary C Anakwue3 1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2Department of Medicine, 3Department of Radiography and Radiological Sciences, Imaging Unit, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Introduction: Th

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