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Economics and Ultimate Reality: The Problem of Balance between External and Internal Forms of Wealth
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Muscle Pathology in Total Knee Replacement for Severe Osteoarthritis: A Histochemical and Morphometric Study
We evaluated a series of 12 biopsies from 11 patients with total knee replacements for severe osteoarthritis. All 12 biopsies showed denervation atrophy, while five cases had significant myopathic changes. Morphometric studies indicated a positive atrophy factor (greater than 150) in the type I myofibers in seven cases, the IIA myofibers in nine cases, and the IIB myofibers in all 12 cases. Type I predominance occurred in six cases, IIA paucity in two cases, and IIB paucity in two cases. The results indicate that patients with severe osteoarthritis of the knee have both significant neuropathic and myopathic changes in quadriceps biopsies. The changes in osteoarthritis of the knee differ from previously reported muscle biopsy results in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, femoropatellar or femorotibial osteoarthrosis, dislocating patella, meniscus tear or chondromalacia
Sociologists Without Borders and The Meaning of “Without Borders”: The Social Construction of Organizational and Scholarly Boundaries
This manuscript examines what it means to be “without borders” in an organizational and scholarly context
Rules vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, and the Right to Housing in the Shelter System
Sometimes the mechanisms that are in place to protect human rights lead to human rights violations. Drawing on data from ten months of fieldwork at a homeless shelter’s women’s program in a New England city. The authors trace the compromise of human dignity that accompanies one shelter’s effort to help clients fulfill their human right to housing
Rules vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, and the Right to Housing in the Shelter System
Sometimes the mechanisms that are in place to protect human rights lead to human rights violations. Drawing on data from ten months of fieldwork at a homeless shelter’s women’s program in a New England city. The authors trace the compromise of human dignity that accompanies one shelter’s effort to help clients fulfill their human right to housing
Shake-up Processes in Intersubband Magneto-photoabsorption of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
I theoretically study shake-up processes in photoabsorption of an interacting
low-density two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in magnetic fields. Such
processes, in which an incident photon creates an electron-hole pair and
simultaneously excites one electron to one of the higher Landau levels, were
observed experimentally [D.R. Yakovlev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3974
(1997)] and were called combined exciton-cyclotron resonance (ExCR). The
recently developed theory of ExCR [A.B. Dzyubenko, Phys. Rev. B 64, 241101
(2001)] allows for a consistent treatment of the Coulomb correlations,
establishes the exact ExCR selection rules, and predicts the high field
features of ExCR. In this work, I generalize the existing theory of high-field
ExCR in the 2DEG to the case when the hole is excited to higher hole Landau
levels.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; Proceedings NGS-11 (June 2003, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Simplified form of tinnitus retraining therapy in adults: a retrospective study.
BACKGROUND: Since the first description of tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT), clinicians have modified and customised the method of TRT in order to suit their practice and their patients. A simplified form of TRT is used at Ealing Primary Care Trust Audiology Department. Simplified TRT is different from TRT in the type and (shorter) duration of the counseling but is similar to TRT in the application of sound therapy except for patients exhibiting tinnitus with no hearing loss and no decreased sound tolerance (wearable sound generators were not mandatory or recommended here, whereas they are for TRT). The main goal of this retrospective study was to assess the efficacy of simplified TRT. METHODS: Data were collected from a series of 42 consecutive patients who underwent simplified TRT for a period of 3 to 23 months. Perceived tinnitus handicap was measured by the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and perceived tinnitus loudness, annoyance and the effect of tinnitus on life were assessed through the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). RESULTS: The mean THI and VAS scores were significantly decreased after 3 to 23 months of treatment. The mean decline of the THI score was 45 (SD = 22) and the difference between pre- and post-treatment scores was statistically significant. The mean decline of the VAS scores was 1.6 (SD = 2.1) for tinnitus loudness, 3.6 (SD = 2.6) for annoyance, and 3.9 (SD = 2.3) for effect on life. The differences between pre- and post-treatment VAS scores were statistically significant for tinnitus loudness, annoyance, and effect on life. The decline of THI scores was not significantly correlated with age and duration of tinnitus. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that benefit may be obtained from a substantially simplified form of TRT.RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display the work; make derivative works; or make commercial use of the work - under the following conditions: the original author must be given credit; for any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are
Room reflections and constancy in speech-like sounds: within-band effects
The experiment asks whether constancy in hearing precedes or follows grouping. Listeners heard speech-like
sounds comprising 8 auditory-filter shaped noise-bands that had temporal envelopes corresponding to those
arising in these filters when a speech message is played. The „context‟ words in the message were “next you‟ll
get _to click on”, into which a “sir” or “stir” test word was inserted. These test words were from an 11-step
continuum that was formed by amplitude modulation. Listeners identified the test words appropriately and quite
consistently, even though they had the „robotic‟ quality typical of this type of 8-band speech. The speech-like
effects of these sounds appears to be a consequence of auditory grouping. Constancy was assessed by comparing
the influence of room reflections on the test word across conditions where the context had either the same level
of reflections, or where it had a much lower level. Constancy effects were obtained with these 8-band sounds,
but only in „matched‟ conditions, where the room reflections were in the same bands in both the context and the
test word. This was not the case in a comparison „mismatched‟ condition, and here, no constancy effects were
found. It would appear that this type of constancy in hearing precedes the across-channel grouping whose
effects are so apparent in these sounds. This result is discussed in terms of the ubiquity of grouping across
different levels of representation
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