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Pre-Operative Localization Of A Chest Wall Needle By Ultrasonography: A Casereport, Jannie Ying-Syuan Chen, Tung-Mao Chiang, Yi-Cheng Wu, Chao-Yi Huang, Chih-Chin Hsu, Wen-Chung Tsai

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

High-resolution ultrasonography is a useful tool for the localization of non-palpable soft-tissue foreign bodies. A 21-year-old female underwent a routine health examination, during which chest radiography revealed a radio-opaque linear foreign body. The foreign body was located within left posterior chest wall, 4 to 5 cm lateral to the T8 spinous process. The shape indicated a needle. The possible presence of a needle in the chest wall meant that an operation to remove it was imperative. There was no tender point or palpable mass present on the chest wall and, consequently, there was difficulty determining the precise location of the …

Incidence And Risk Factors Analysis Of Lymphedema Secondary To Breast Cancer, Su-Fen Liao, Ya-Fun Lee, Shou-Tung Chen, Shou-Jen Kuo, Wei-Chen Liang, Ta-Sen Wei, Mu-Tai Liu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Lymphedema, the most significant complication of treatment for breast cancer, can result in substantial psychological and physical morbidity. However, no long-term follow-up lymphedema studies yet exist for Taiwanese breast cancer survivors. This study therefore focused on examining frequency and risk factors of lymphedema secondary to breast cancer in Taiwanese patients. Five hundred and seventy patients who received surgical treatment between 1994 and 2000 at Changhua Christian Hospital were retrospectively investigated in October 2002. The incidence of self-reported edema was 28 percent (161/570), and the incidence of lymphedema with circumference difference greater than 2cm was 8.1 percent (46/570). Eighty-four percent of …

The Recovery Index Of Oxygen Saturation From Orthostatic Syncope In Patients With Spinal Cord Injury, David S. Liu, Alice M. K. Wong, Shih-Ching Chen, Kang-Ping Lin, Chien-Hung Lai, Walter H. Chang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a common clinical problem for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) at the cervical or high thoracic level when they move from the supine position to the upright position. Patients with severe SCI frequently suffer from symptoms of OH during head-up tilt, ranging from slight lightheadedness to full syncope. Tilt-table training is commonly used in clinical physiotherapy to overcome OH syncope, but this also relies on carefully manual control of the tilt angle and training time by the therapist during training. Up till now, it still has no method to estimate the recovery process of OH …

The Research And Development Of Foot Pressure Testing Piece, Mu-Jung Kao, Ming-Jor Lo, Cheng-Kung Cheng, Hung-Wen Wei

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The purpose of this study was to design an insole-style testing piece for a quick and easy dynamic foot pressure test. Current commercial foot pressure systems are costly and complicated to operate. These systems are not suitable for extensive evaluations of patient's foot or orthoses, either.The material used in this research is TPE-PS shock absorption foam. This foam has three special features: (1) excellent surface contact with foot contour, soft textures that do not irritate the foot, (2) creates permanent foot pressure imprints after brief walking, (3) the foam material does not crack or break under excessive foot pressure. When …

Combining Therapeutic Ultrasound And Breast Massage For Plugged Ducts: Three Casereports, Yu-Chun Lee, Xiu-Yong Hong, Chin-Teng Chung, Wei-Chih Chen, Hui-Mi Liu, Si-Wa Chan

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Plugged ducts are a common problem during lactation. They often occur when the breast is not emptied properly, or when there is local pressure on the breast. Plugged ducts usually occur three to four weeks postpartum. Symptoms include a sensitive lump with well-defined margins in the breast. There may be pain and tenderness in the affected area, although this is not necessarily accompanied by systemic symptoms such as high-grade fever. Milk flow can be blocked and sometimes a tiny white spot can be seen at the opening of the mammary duct on the nipple. Without treatment, plugged ducts can lead …

Clinical Diagnosis Of Mild Misalignment Of Symphysis Pubis Using Ct Scan With Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Of Pelvis: A Casereport, Cheng-Hung Lin, Ching-Hung Hung, Nam-Seng Goh, Chen-Chang Hsiung

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The patients who suffered from symphysis pubis injury would normally be treated in two clinical departments. Symphysis pubis diastasis is an uncommon intrapartum complication which may occur in women with some associative factors such as macrosomic fetus, small pelvis, and rapid descent of presenting part during spontaneous vaginal delivery. The automotive side impacts are a leading cause of injuries to the pubic symphysis which might be combined with major pelvic trauma. Other factors that might contribute to this type of injury is general fall events, although very rare, which would induce minor symphysis pubis injury. Recently, we presented with a …

Evil Has A New Name (And A New Narrative): Bernard Madoff, A. Christine Hurt

Faculty Scholarship

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Cyber Warfare And Precautions Against The Effects Of Attacks, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

Ninety-eight percent of all U.S. government communications travel over civilian-owned-and-operated networks. Additionally, the government relies almost completely on civilian providers for computer software and hardware products, services, and maintenance. This near-complete intermixing of civilian and military computer infrastructure makes many of those civilian objects and providers legitimate targets under the law of armed conflict. Other civilian networks, services, and communications may suffer collateral damage from legitimate attacks on government targets. To protect those civilian objects and providers from the effects of attacks, the law of armed conflict requires a state to segregate its military assets from the civilian population and …

Climate Protection And Ocean Acidification : The Case For Immediate Action In International Law & Policy Negotiations, Carolyne Okeijn

World Maritime University Dissertations

This dissertation discusses ocean acidification as an emerging priority in international climate protection processes within the UNFCCC and the IMO. It provides discussion in an area where there is currently a gap between ocean acidification science and corresponding action in law and policy processes. It builds the case for substantial, immediate action on CO2 within the context of negotiations at UNFCCC for the post-Kyoto climate regime. This dissertation contains an examination of the available science publications on ocean acidification and submissions made by leading ocean acidification experts at COP-15; references to “ocean acidification” in the IMO MEPC meeting protocols and …

Ship Recycling In The International Regulatory Regime Of The Marine Environment : Selected Legal And Practical Issues And Implications, Ying Fang

World Maritime University Dissertations

Ship recycling is considered to be a safe and green solution to the disposal of ships reaching the end of their operational lives. It has become an issue of grave concern mainly due to the deteriorating records of work safety and environmental pollution associated with this activity. Therefore, international regulatory measures are needed to effectively control ship recycling activities taking into account the important factors of environmental protection and socio-economic development. The discussion in this dissertation revolves around the co-existence and effectiveness of two regulatory conventions relating to ship recycling, namely, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements …

Institutional Framework For Ocean Governance : A Way Forward, Mohd Khairul Tazril. Tarmizi

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Multinational And Multicultural Seafarers And Met Students : A Socio-Cultural Study For Improving Maritime Safety And The Education Of Seafarers, Didin Susetyo. Alfiani

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Archipelagic Sea Lanes Passage And Maritime Security In Archipelagic Southeast Asia, Vivien Jane Evangelio Cay

World Maritime University Dissertations

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An Analysis Of Multimodal Route Via Iraq To The Mediterranean And Europe Compared To The Suez Canal, Safaa Abdul Hussein Jaiyz Al Fayyadh

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Analysis Of Economic Impact Of Marpol Annex Ix On Different Types Of Ships, Michail Alexandrovich Konoplev

World Maritime University Dissertations

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Detection Of Psilocybin Mushroom Analogs In Chocolate: Incorporating Current Events Into The Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory, Brandon Huskins, Christopher Dockery

Faculty Articles

In this experiment, tryptamine is used as a psilocin analog and is dispersed onto a Fisher brand cellulose laboratory sponge to simulate dehydrated mushrooms. The resulting “mushroom” material is ground, molded into chocolate, and presented to student groups for real-world and applied analyses. Students isolate the tryptamine from the chocolate using their knowledge of drug chemistry, solubility, pH, extractions, etc. Qualitative analysis is conducted by comparison to standards (Thin Layer Chromatography or Gas Chromatography) and quantitative analysis is conducted by Gas Chromatography using the method of internal standards.

“So Hard Was It To Release Princes Whom Fortuna Had Put In Her Chains:” Queens And Female Rulers As Hostage- And Captive-Takers And Holders, Colleen Slater

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Gendering Action In Iberian Chivalric Romance, Montserrat Piera, Jodi Shearn

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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How To Be A Man, Though Female: Changing Sex In Medieval Romance, Angela Jane Weisl

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Bleeding Pages, Bleeding Bodies: A Gendered Reading Of British Library Ms Egerton 1821, Nancy Thebaut

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Virginia Blanton. Signs Of Devotion: The Cult Of St. Æthelthryth In Medieval England, 695-1615. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007., Jennifer C. Edwards

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Rhetoric Of The Anchorhold: Space, Place And Body Within The Discourses Of Enclosure, Ed. Liz Herbert Mcavoy. University Of Wales Press, 2008., Sally Livingston

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Disruptive Disguises: The Problem Of Transvestite Saints For Medieval Art, Identity, And Identification, Saisha Grayson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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The Powdery Mildew Resistance Gene Ren1 Co-Segregates With An Nbs-Lrr Gene Cluster In Two Central Asian Grapevines, Courtney Coleman, Dario Copetti, Guido Cipriani, Sarolta Hoffmann, Pál Kozma, László Kovács, Michele Morgante, Raffaele Testolin, Gabriele Di Gaspero

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Background: Grape powdery mildew is caused by the North American native pathogen Erysiphe necator. Eurasian Vitis vinifera varieties were all believed to be susceptible. REN1 is the first resistance gene naturally found in cultivated plants of Vitis vinifera.

Results: REN1 is present in 'Kishmish vatkana' and 'Dzhandzhal kara', two grapevines documented in Central Asia since the 1920's. These cultivars have a second-degree relationship (half sibs, grandparent-grandchild, or avuncular), and share by descent the chromosome on which the resistance allele REN1 is located. The REN1 interval was restricted to 1.4 cM using 38 SSR markers distributed across the locus and the …

Sustainability Of Business Development Services: Gaps Analysis Of The Kenyan Market, Hellen Otieno, Donath Olomi, Ruth Kiraka

Business Management Review

A key challenge in entrepreneurship and private sector development is the provision of sustainable Business Development Services (BDS), particularly for micro and small enterprises. This study investigates how sustainability of BDS can be achieved, and how some providers manage to develop sustainable BDS and not others, using Grounded Theory. The findings suggest that there are at least nine specific demand-and-supply-side gaps in the BDS market which providers need to identify and fill if they are to become sustainable. The gaps relate to awareness, value, trust, quality, capacity, unwillingness to pay, appreciation, inability to pay and perception. How providers identify and …

Highly Nitrated Cyclopropanes As New High Energy Materials: Dft Calculations On The Properties Of C3H6−N(No2)N (N=3–6), Aloysus K. Lawong, David W. Ball

Chemistry Faculty Publications

As part of a continuing study of new potential high energy materials, here we present results of calculations on cyclopropane molecules with three or more nitro groups. DFT calculations suggest that all molecules can exist as minimum-energy stationary states. Energy calculations indicate that some nitrocyclopropanes have a specific enthalpy of decomposition in excess of 8kJg⁻¹, suggesting that they be explored as new potential high energy materials.

Theory Of Thermal Conductivity In Extended-S State Superconductors: Application To Ferropnictides, V. Mishra, A. Vorontsov, P. J. Hirschfeld, I. Vekhter

Faculty Publications

Within a two-band model for the recently discovered ferropnictide materials, we calculate the thermal conductivity assuming general superconducting states of A1g (" s -wave") symmetry, considering both currently popular isotropic "sign-changing" s states and states with strong anisotropy, including those which manifest nodes or deep minima of the order parameter. We consider both intraband and interband disorder scattering effects, and show that in situations where a low-temperature linear- T term exists in the thermal conductivity, it is not always "universal" as in d -wave superconductors. We discuss the conditions under which such a term can disappear, as well as how …

Relative Height And Weight Among Children And Adolescents Of Rural Southwestern Nigeria, Omolola Ayoola, Kara Ebersole, Olayemi O. Omotade, Bamidele O. Tayo, William R. Brieger, Kabiru Salami, Lara R. Dugas, Richard S. Cooper, Amy Luke

Faculty Publications

Background: There are few data describing the relative height and weight patterns of children and adolescents in rural Nigeria, despite a prevalence of stunting of over 38% among children younger than 5 years. Aim: The present study documented the height and weight patterns relative to international standards among children and adolescents aged 520 years in rural Nigeria. Subjects and methods: Children 520 years of age were enrolled from two rural villages. Height and weight were measured; body composition was estimated using bioelectrical impedance analysis. z-scores and centiles for height and body mass index were calculated; prevalences of low relative height …

The Impact Of Self-Control Exercises On The Performance Level Of Peaceful Basketball Aiming, Afaf Abdullah Al-Kateb, Fatima Abdel-Maleh, Zainab Qahtan

Modern Sport

Basketball requires players to exert maximum individual effort during high-level skill games, relying heavily on the mastery of basic skills and effective team coordination, especially when implementing tactical offensive or defensive strategies. Unlike other sports, basketball demands more from individual and team planning due to the complexity of its gameplay. This research focuses on the importance of self-control exercises—specifically mobile equilibrium training using a balancing wheelchair—as a means to enhance scoring performance, particularly in lay-up shots, which are among the most accurate forms of scoring in basketball. Given that high technical skill levels are essential for achieving game objectives and …

Learning In A Retrospective And Holistic Way The Accuracy Of The Performance Of Harmonic Skills For Arm Development, Zafer Hashem Ismail, Shailan Hussein Mohammed

Modern Sport

The objective of the research was to investigate the effect of part and whole learning methods on the accuracy of performing coordination skills using both arms in tennis. The study involved 30 second-stage students from the College of Physical Education at Sulaimania University, who were divided into three groups of 10 students each. The test used was the Hewitt test for forehand and backhand strokes. The results showed that all groups improved in learning both forehand and backhand strokes, but the group that used both arms in striking the ball demonstrated the most significant improvement. The study recommended using all …