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Cognitive and Affective Changes After Myelography: A Comparison of Metrizamide and lohexol
No full textA baHery of brief cognitive tests and a mood scale were administered to 42 patients before and after cervical myelography with either metrizamide (20 patients) or iohexol (22 patients). The patients receiving metrizamide experienced a deterioration in mood after myelography and a relatively greater decline in cognitive test performance than did those receiving iohexol. These two side effects tended to occur together in the metrizamide group, suggesting a common underlying cause; but there was no correlation between changes in mood and cognitive function after myelography with iohexol. These results suggest that metrizamide has a greater neurotoxic effect than iohexol. It has been known for several years that the use of metrizamide (Amipaque) for myelography can be associated with undesirable side effects, including nausea, headache, back and leg pain , and florid neuropsychiatric symptoms Subjects and Methods Subjects were 42 patients in the Presbyterian University Hospital in Pittsburgh who had agreed to participate in another, larger, randomized double-blind trial of the two contrast media for cervical myelography, the resu lts of which have been reported elsewhere Myelograms were accomplished via C1-C2 puncture using 300 mg Ilml concentration for both contrast agents, and all patients were premedicated with 10 mg of Valium. All patients were encouraged to drink liberally before myelography and to consume at least 2 liters of fluid over 8 hr after myelography. Patients were maintained in a head-up position for at least 3 min following myelography , and all received post myelographic CT scans . Each evaluation took about 1 hr and involved administration of a standard questionnaire about the patient's mood followed by a series of brief cognitive tests. The test battery was designed to be brief yet reasonably comprehensive in terms of the cognitive functions sampled so as to minimize the burden to the patient while maximizing the probability of detecting an
Sherman's Fourth Side of a Triangle
No full textAbstract. We give two simple ruler-and-compass constructions of the line which, like the sidelines of the triangle, is tangent to the incircle and cuts the circumcircle in a chord with midpoint on the nine-point circle
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Development Goals: an analysis of the shaping and negotiation process Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Development Goals: an analysis of the shaping and
No full textThis article analyses the emerging scope of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the successor development instrument to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which are scheduled to end on 31 December 2015. The top priorities of the stakeholders involved in the shaping and negotiation process include poverty eradication, water sanitation, energy, economic growth, green growth, governance and employment. Current trends appear to favour a progression of the shaping and negotiation process which goes beyond the established MDG goals
SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: A CASE STUDY ABOUT APPLICABILITY OF SCOR MODEL IN A MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY FIRM
No full text─Abstract ─ The Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) is the product of the Supply Chain Council. The supply chain operations reference model (SCOR) is a management tool used to address, improve, and communicate supply chain management decisions within a company and with suppliers and customers of a company. The model describes the business processes required to satisfy a customer's demands. It also helps to explain the processes along the entire supply chain and provides a basis for how to improve those processes. The model integrates business concepts of process reengineering, benchmarking, and measurement into its framework. This framework focuses on five areas of the supply chain: plan, source, make, deliver, and return. These areas repeat again and again along the supply chain in order to satisfy continuous improvement. This study is about determining the limitations of SCOR model in a manufacturing industry firm in Turkey. All the steps of SCOR model considered and adaptability, compatibility and sustainability of the model analyzed among all of its steps as and plan, source, make, deliver, and return
No full textAbstract Submitted for the MAR16 Meeting of The American Physical Society Extremely Large Magnetoresistance in Bi 0.96 Sb 0.04 1 SUDESH SUDESH, PAWAN KUMAR, SATYABRATA PATNAIK, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India -Recent experimental evidence for Weyl fermions in topological semimetals has attracted considerable attention. These materials are three-dimensional analogue of graphene. The present work is motivated by the recent prediction of Weyl semi-metallic phase in Bi 1−x Sb x alloys. In this paper we present the electronic transport properties studied under high applied magnetic fields in Bi 0.96 Sb 0.04 alloys. The sample exhibits extremely high magneto-resistance; MR(5 K, 8 T) = 9.810 4 %. This value is comparable to the MR observed in recently discovered other members of these emergent materials. Most importantly, this composition shows large MR at room temperature, MR (300 K, 8 T) = 435%, which is almost twice to that observed in Dirac semimetal Cd 3 As 2 (= 200 % at 14.5 T) and Weyl semimetal NbP (= 250% at 9 T). We also discuss single crystal growth techniques as well as Hall and Shubnikov de Haas (SdH) oscillation data
THE OCCURRENCE of STRABISMUS & OCULAR PATHOLOGY in an Institutionalized Sample of Mentally Retarded Individuals
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OWNERSHIP AND USE OF NEW MEDIA BY TEACHERS IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS OF CROATIA
No full textAbstract The development and use of new media in the class emphasizes independent learning based on the activitiesofthestudents, constructivistlearningand student-centredlessonsin general. Using new media in the class does not prompt more efficient learning and teaching in itself, but can initiate the learning processes by didactically shaping the class with regards to student and teacher motivation, previous knowledge, aims, methods and content. Thus,the media changes the role of the teacher, who becomes the organizer of students' independent learning activities. On the other hand, differences have traditionally been seen between teachers from rural (village) and urban (towns/cities) areas. This research was carried out to investigate how often new media are used by elementary school teachers in rural and urban areas (N=158), and what the differences are between those two subgroups of teachers in terms of ownership of new media. The research was conducted in February 2012by using a questionnaire.The studydemonstrates that there is no difference in terms of ownership of any of the new media items relating to the area in which the school is situated (rural or urban). The results show that computers, mobile phones and the internet are owned and used toa greater degree than social media, smartphones and tablet computers. Teachers who work in rural and urban areas use personal computers, the internet and multimedia software in their classes most often, while they do not use tablet computers, smartphones, social networking or mobile phones as frequently. The results show that using new media decreases the traditional differences between teachers from rural and urban areas, which implies that students can learn in classes organized with the help of new media, regardless of where their school is situated
Dyadic Behavior Analysis in Depression Severity Assessment Interviews General Terms
No full textABSTRACT Previous literature suggests that depression impacts vocal timing of both participants and clinical interviewers but is mixed with respect to acoustic features. To investigate further, 57 middle-aged adults (men and women) with Major Depression Disorder and their clinical interviewers (all women) were studied. Participants were interviewed for depression severity on up to four occasions over a 21 week period using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD), which is a criterion measure for depression severity in clinical trials. Acoustic features were extracted for both participants and interviewers using COVAREP Toolbox. Missing data occurred due to missed appointments, technical problems, or insufficient vocal samples. Data from 36 participants and their interviewers met criteria and were included for analysis to compare between high and low depression severity. Acoustic features for participants varied between men and women as expected, and failed to vary with depression severity for participants. For interviewers, acoustic characteristics strongly varied with severity of the interviewee's depression. Accommodation -the tendency of interactants to adapt their communicative behavior to each other -between interviewers and interviewees was inversely related to depression severity. These findings suggest that interviewers modify their acoustic features in response to depression severity, and depression severity strongly impacts interpersonal accommodation