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Joint Effect Of Multiple Common Snps Predicts Melanoma Susceptibility, Shenying Fang, Jiali Han, Mingfeng Zhang, Li-E Wang, Qingyi Wei, Christopher I. Amos, Jeffrey E. Lee

Dartmouth Scholarship

Single genetic variants discovered so far have been only weakly associated with melanoma. This study aims to use multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) jointly to obtain a larger genetic effect and to improve the predictive value of a conventional phenotypic model. We analyzed 11 SNPs that were associated with melanoma risk in previous studies and were genotyped in MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) and Harvard Medical School investigations. Participants with ≥15 risk alleles were 5-fold more likely to have melanoma compared to those carrying ≤6. Compared to a model using the most significant single variant rs12913832, the increase in predictive …

Complexity, Hybridity, And Comparative Literature, Marina Grishakova

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Complexity, Hybridity, and Comparative Literature" Marina Grishakova discusses "implied hybridity" in discourses, aesthetic systems, and media as a form of emergent complexity — as distinct from hybridity resulting from the mixture or blending of heterogeneous elements. Grishakova argues that complexity theories widely used in social sciences and, to a lesser extent, in literary and cultural studies, suggest a possibility to avoid dualistic thinking and offer a flexible conceptual framework for comparative literature studies. Aesthetic systems, as part of society's "imaginary," respond to, and reorganize in response to, impulses received from other domains, but also modify their environments …

Gender And Emotion In Comparative Perspective, Raili Marling

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Gender and Emotion in Comparative Perspective" Raili Marling argues that although the study of affect is anything but new, literary studies can benefit from the creative tension between affect and (feminist) politics. Building on the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant, Marling engages with the debates within affect theory and then fleshes out the idea of literature as a gendered intimate public sphere and investigates the political effects of emotions as cultural practices. The resulting — largely Anglophone — theoretical apparatus is then tested in a cross-cultural context by discussing Elo Viiding's negotiation of "happiness duty" …

Intramedullary Astrocytoma Presenting As Cervical And Upper Back Pain: A Casereport, Chao-Pin Yang, Chun-Yuan Cheng, Ying-Hsuan Li

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Intramedullary astrocytomas are rare, accounting for 3% of all central nervous system astrocytomas. Pain is the most common clinical symptom, although symptoms can vary. These tumors typically progress over a period of months to years before the diagnosis is established. An intramedullary astrocytoma and cervical intervertebral disc herniation may coexist; the early symptoms maybe similar and an intramedullary astrocytoma might go undetected and be misdiagnosed as cervical disc herniation. This paper reports a 30-year-old male who presented with cervical and upper back pain extending to the right upper limb. Initially, the diagnosis was a cervical radiculopathy. After rehabilitation, for two …

Louisiana Civil Code - Code Civil De Louisiane Book Iii, Titles 15 And 16, Center Of Civil Law Studies

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Trahan V. Kingrey, John H. Leech Jr.

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

France: French Tort Law In The Light Of European Harmonization, Olivier Moréteau

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Moen V. State Appellant's Brief Dckt. 40600

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Hyaluronic Acid And Glucosamine On The Migration And Proliferation Of Tenocytes, Chien-Hung Chen, Jin-Fu Huang, Li-Lun Chen, Wen-Chung Tsai, Jong-Hwei S. Pang, Yu-Hsin Liao, Tung-Yang Yu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Tendinopathy or tendon rupture is a common disease. Studies have showed that hyaluronic acid and glucosamine benefit the process of tendon repair. Tendon healing requires the migration of tenocytes to the repair site, followed by the proliferation and synthesis of the extracellular matrix. However, the effects of hyaluronic acid and glucosamine on tenocytes remain to be explored. Here, we treated tenocytes from rat Achilles tendons with hyaluronic acid or glucosamine. The ability of tenocytes to migrate and proliferate was assessed by transwell filter migration assay and MTT (3-[4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5- diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay, respectively. Results from transwell filter migration assays showed that …

Kneeling Leg Curl With Internal Rotation Training Improves Agility In Patients With Anterior-Posterior Laxity Of Knee, Chih-Kuan Wu, Shu-Chun Huang, Kuan-Chou Chen, Cheng-Hsiu Lai, Chia-Hua Kuo, Shih-Wei Chou

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: Whether strengthening exercises emphasizing on internal rotators of the knee are more effective in improving shuttle-run agility of the knees with anterior-posterior laxity (AP laxity). Methods: Twenty men with AP laxity of knee were randomly assigned to the three experimental groups in different strengthening modes: plate-loaded squat press (SP), plate-loaded kneeling leg curl with internal rotation (KLCIR), and kneeling leg curl (KLC). Control group with stable knees received no training. Anterior-posterior laxity, shuttle-run agility, and isokinetic strength were evaluated before and after training. Results: Those with AP laxity of knee have poorer performance in the shuttle run test than …

Sensory Integration Dysfunction Affects Effectiveness Of Speech Therapy On Children With Functional Articulation Disorders, Li-Chen Tung, Ching-I Hu, Chin-Kai Lin, Ching-Lin Hsieh, Daniel Chiung-Jui Su, Ching-Chi Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Purpose: To compare the efficacy of speech therapy on children with functional articulation disorder with and without sensory integration dysfunction. Method: 20 young children were divided into two groups, those without sensory integration dysfunction (normal group, 10 children) and those with it (abnormal group, 10 children). The Mandarin Consonant Articulation Test for Preschool Children was administered on the children before and after therapy for articulation function. The oral motor function was evaluated by the Riley Motor Problems Inventory Oral Motor Tasks. Total of treatment sessions was recorded after the therapy. Results: Differences between the two groups in terms of age, …

The Effect Of Health Promotion With Physical Therapy And Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid For Knee Osteoarthritis, Chen-Liang Chou, Wen-Hsu Sung, Fu-Wei Liu, Hsuci-Chen Lee, Li-Lung Haung, Jin-Jong Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Purpose: Knee osteoarthritis (knee OA) is a common chronic disease that affects elderly. Intra-articular injection of hyaluronic acid (IAHA) and physical therapy for knee OA have been shown to have clinical benefits in randomized, clinical trials separately. However, it is generally accepted that optimal management of knee OA requires a combination of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatment. Currently, few studies have directly evaluated the benefits of combining the 2 treatments for knee OA. The purpose of this study explored the efficacy of interventions in patients with knee osteoarthritis through combined IAHA and physical therapy. This study investigated the potential benefit of …

Effect Of Arm Spasticity Grade On Blood Pressure Measurement, Chia-Min Lin, Huei-Yu Lo, Wai-Keung Lee, Meng-Tai Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objective: The arm spasticity in patients with stroke has been proved to affect blood pressure measurement. However, earlier studies showed inconsistent results of how the spasticity affected the measurement of blood pressure. In some cases, measurement of blood pressure in patients' involved arm is necessary, so the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of spasticity grade on blood pressure measurement in patients with stroke.Methods: We recruited 50 patients with hemiplegia or hemiparesis after stroke. The grade of arm spasticity was assessed using the modified Ashworth scale (MAS), while the bilateral brachial artery pressure was measured using an …

Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Or Heart Valve Replacement Surgery-Experience Of A Medical Center, Ding-Hao Liu, Yi-Cheng Chen, Su-Ying Hung, Chen-Liang Chou

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background and Purpose: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a long-term program that includes exercise prescription, education, and counseling on the limitation of physiological and psychological effects of cardiac disease and to enhance the psychosocial and vocational status of selected patients. In spite of CR being approved for patients who have experienced the consequences of coronary artery disease and for those who have had heart valve surgery, CR is widely underused. The aim of this study was to research the current status of CR for patients receiving coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or heart valve replacement (HVR) in a medical center in …

Efficacy Of Echo-Guided Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy For Calcific Supraspinatus Tendinopathy: A Case Series Study, Ju-Wen Cheng, Wen-Chung Tsai, Chien-Hung Chen, Chien-Hung Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Approximately 50% of patients with calcific tendinitis of the rotator cuff experience shoulder pain. Shock wave therapy is a non-invasive alternative treatment that is effective in pain relief, function restoration, and deposit resorption. In our study, we used ultrasonography-guided shock wave therapy for the targeted treatment of calcific supraspinatus tendinopathy.We retrospectively assessed 9 patients (8 women, 1 man; age 33-57 years) who had received echo-guided extracorporeal shock wave therapy for calcific supraspinatus tendinopathy from 2006 to 2012. Pain measured by the numerical rating scale (NRS) was compared before and after therapy. The length and width of the calcification spot on …

Investigating The Core Competencies For Rehabilitation-Related Therapists In Three Hospitals Belonging To A Medical Association In Southern Taiwan, Hing-Man Wu, Kuo-Shu Yuan, Daniel Chiung-Jui Su, Willy Chou

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Objectives: Few studies have focused on job competency among medical-technical staff in hospitals. This study investigated the core competencies for a professional job among rehabilitation-related therapists, and examined how these competencies are applied to human resource management in hospitals, including recruitment, selection, placement, development, and promotion. Methods: A total of 113 rehabilitation-related therapists (comprising 67 physical therapists, 34 occupational therapists, and 12 speech therapists) from 3 hospitals belonging to a medical association in Southern Taiwan participated in the study. A test of competency using the ＂Nine Competencies Star＂ system developed by 1111 Job Bank was administered to the participants. The …

Medical Utilization Among Patients With Cerebral Palsy, Ching-Yi Chen, Ching-Chun Lin, Jiunn-Horng Kang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

This study aimed to investigate the differences of medical utilization between patients with cerebral palsy (CP) and patients without using a population-based database in Taiwan. Data on the sampled subjects and their medical utilization were retrieved from the ＂Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID2000)＂. This study comprised of 2317 patients with CP and 6961 comparison subjects. Medical utilization was evaluated in the one-year follow-up period as follows: number of outpatient visits and inpatient days, and the mean costs of outpatient and inpatient treatment. A multivariate regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between CP and total costs of health care …

The Relationship Between Heart Rate Turning Point And Anaerobic Threshold In Patients With Cardiopulmonary Diseases, Yi-Tien Su, Su-Ying Hung, Chen-Liang Chou

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background: Exercise training is an efficient way to improve physical performance. Training at an intensity of a certain level of the anaerobic threshold (AT) is a successful and frequently adopted method to increase both maximal and submaximal exercise capacity. Several methods are currently used to detect the AT. Analysis of the respiratory gas exchange allows identification of the AT and is currently advocated as the ＂gold standard＂. The heart rate turning point (HRTP) is a downward or upward change from the linear HR work relationship evidenced during incremental exercise testing and has been reported to coincide with AT. Purpose: The …

Early Physical Therapy Intervention For A Child With Williams-Beuren's Syndrome And Presenting With Icf Model For Individual Activity And Participation: A Casereport, Shin-Mei Liu, Feng-Yin Lien, Shin-Tsu Chang, Heng-Yi Chu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Williams-Beuren's syndrome (W-B syndrome) is one of the genetic diseases, often comes with cardiovascular disease, abnormality of facial and teeth structure, poor motor control, delayed development of cognition and spatial sense. Here we present one child with W-B syndrome who underwent early intervention since she was 7 months old. After 20-month training, the child has made impressive progress in motor function and abilities of carrying ADL. Furthermore, by giving the parents instructions and guidelines for home programs, the relationship between the child and her parents also improved a lot. As the matter of fact, this casereport showed that the early …

Producing Space: Block-By-Block Change In A Gentrifying Neighborhood, Jen Douglas

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

Gentrification of urban neighborhoods is part of an ongoing restructuring of the city, linked to the emerging occupational structure of the service economy and the remaking of built environments that were created for a production economy. It is the name given to processes in which commodification and reinvestment accompany the in-migration of professional and managerial workers, often displacing prior residents and giving altered spatial form to inequality.

This dissertation is a case study of gentrification in Hyde and Jackson Squares, part of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The emergence of gentrification pressures and their uneven distribution within the area is documented …

Studying Soil Moisture And Land-To-Water Carbon Export In Urbanized Coastal Areas Using Remotely Sensed Data And A Regional Hydro-Ecological Model, Yun Yang

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

The main objective of this research was to study the flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from a terrestrial urbanized watershed to an estuarine system using a process-based regional hydro-ecological model and remotely sensed data.

While DOC is an important component of the global carbon cycle, the link of the variations in terrestrial carbon storage is still poorly understood. Soil moisture is a key factor that influences the amount of available water for vegetation growth and the decomposition rate of organic matter in the soil and thus contributes to the amount of DOC in the soil at the land-water boundary. …

Adrenal Myelolipoma: Operative Indications And Outcomes, Victoria M. Gershuni, James G. Bittner Iv, Jeffrey F. Moley, L. Michael Brunt

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

Influence Of Boulders On Netleaf Hackberry (Celtis Reticulata) Growth And Distribution In The Wasatch Foothills, Alex Argyle, Michael T. Stevens

Western North American Naturalist

In a landscape, abiotic features, such as boulders, influence microhabitats and consequently affect patterns of vegetation. We hypothesized that boulders in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains east of Provo, Utah, affected the growth patterns of netleaf hackberry (Celtis reticulata) by providing shade on their north faces. To test this hypothesis, we set up 3 transects 6 m wide and up to 50 m long. Along these transects, we measured all hackberries taller than 30 cm (n = 249). We recorded whether the hackberries grew within 0.5 m of a boulder that was at least 0.5 m …

Innovation Dynamics, Best Practices, And Trends In The Off-Grid Clean Energy Market, James L. Koch, Al Hammond

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

n 2008, the authors of this article developed a “sector strategy” for the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University with the purpose of facilitating collaborative learning between BoP ventures, technology and business model innovation, and positive ecologies for cluster development. This article summarizes insights from the GSBI’s involvement with 60 ventures in the BoP clean energy sector.

How Ending Gender Violence In India Improves The Nation's International Reputation And Tourism Industry: A Case For Nationalism, Sharon Nambudripad Schiffer

Graduate Masters Theses

As nations have become far more interconnected by means of globalization in the 21st century, the issues that affect one nation often have affects upon others. As India is a nation with a population of more than 1.2 billion, the issues that affect the nation also affect others. As an assault in Delhi, India made international news on December 16, 2012, the international community has become more aware of the incidents of gender-based violence that exist within the country. The ramifications of the international community's knowledge of the assault included a drastic decrease in both its international reputation and its …

Impacts Of U.S. Biofuels Mandates On Environmental And Energy Security, Mohammad Alshawaf

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 to reduce dependency on foreign oil by increasing the use of biofuels. EISA mandates 36 billion gallons of biofuel production in 2022, representing an increase of 118% in eight years. Existing and new farmland are expected to be employed to produce corn and other feedstock necessary to fulfill the biofuel mandate. There is little research on the potential environmental impact on water resources of meeting the ESIA biofuel mandates.

The objectives of this EISA study were twofold. First, the study measured the …

Minimal Detectable Change And Responsiveness Of The 5-Item Barthel Index In Patients With Stroke, Wen-Shian Lu, Ya-Chen Lee, Fuh-Chour Twu, Ching-Lin Hsieh

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Background and Purpose: A concise measurement tool can be easily accepted by clinicians. The 5-item Barthel Index (BI-5) has only 5 items and thus the potential to be used routinely in clinical settings. However, the minimal detectable change (MDC) and responsiveness of the BI-5 have not been verified sufficiently, limiting the interpretability of the change scores of the BI-5. The purposes of this study were to investigate the MDC and responsiveness of the BI-5 in patients with stroke and to compare the MDC and responsiveness of the BI-5 to those of the original BI.Methods: This study used secondary data analysis. …

Abnormal Heart Rate Recovery After 6-Minute Walk Test Is Associated With Diabetic Retinopathy In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Preliminary Study, Yu-Shiang Huang, Shu-Chen Chang, Shu-Fang Lee, Meng-Shuo Shen, Huey-Jen Chen, Miao-Ming Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Diabetic retinopathy is associated with cardiac autonomic dysfunction in patients with diabetes mellitus. Abnormal heart rate recovery (HRR) after exercise can be used as a marker of reduced cardiac autonomic function in submaximal and symptom-limited exercise stress testing. The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is considered as a submaximal test that is more appropriate to assess the capacity of performing activities of daily living, and can be applied to a variety of patients in clinical settings without the need of sophisticated equipment. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of diabetic retinopathy with HRR after 6MWT in …

Early Rehabilitation Intervention Can Reduce The Admission Duration Of Rotator Cuff Repair-Introducing The Rehabilitation Protocol, Kun Hung, Bu-Yu Han, Jian-Huang Guo, Tai-Yi Wu, Shu-Hua Lin, Chung-Sheng Ho, Yu-Ting Hsieh

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Currently, there is no standardized rehabilitation protocol for postoperative rotator cuff repair, particularly at acute stage. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the efficiency of preoperative patient education and acute stage rehabilitation, which may contribute in constructing a suitable rehabilitation protocol. The prospective observational study was conducted in a local teaching hospital over a period of 3 months. Twenty patients including 11 men and 9 women with a history of supraspinatus tear were enrolled in this study. The rehabilitation protocol involved preoperative patient education, postoperative proper positioning, passive range of motion exercises, and the usage of continuous passive …

Compressive Femoral Neuropathy Caused By Iliopsoas Muscle Hematoma: A Casereport, Szu-Hung Tsao, Yu-Ting Hsieh, Tai-Yi Wu, Shu-Hua Lin

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Femoral neuropathy is uncommon compared with other mononeuropathies. We report a case of femoral neuropathy in a 53-year-old man who has cardiovascular disease and took Coumadin for 8 years. He has left lower extremity pain and weakness because of femoral nerve and lumbar plexus compression caused by an iliopsoas hematoma, which resulted from a period of prolonged bleeding. The patient’s condition improved after surgery and rehabilitation. We also reviewarticle the anatomy and pathophysiology of the femoral nerve, the clinical presentation of femoral neuropathy, the diagnostic tools used, the treatment method, and the prognosis.