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A work‐oriented occupational therapy programme for individuals with physical disabilities
Authors: Jang Yuh , Hwang Mann‐Tsong , Li Wenshu 
Published: April 2006

AbstractA Work‐Oriented Occupational Therapy Programme (WOOTP) for individuals with physical disabilities at the Department of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University Hospital, is described. The primary goal of the programme is to return the individuals with physical disabilities to work settings and community re‐entry. The programme includes prevocational evaluation and training, functional capacity evaluation, physical capacity evaluation, job site evaluation, and work‐related behaviours and skills training. One hundred and twelve participants completed the therapeutic work programme between November 1995 and May 1997. On outcome, 90 days after discharge, 54 (48.2%) of the clients returned to competitive work, attended school, returned to homemaker activities, or participated in vocational training. The identified strengths of the programme are: it was an integral part of the rehabilitation process; the programme helped clients to confront their disability and psychosocial dysfunction directly through the individual or group discussion and therapy. Copyright © 1997 Whurr Publishers Ltd.
Simultaneous Modeling of the Kovats Retention Indices on Phenyl OV Stationary Phases with Different Polarity using MLR and ANN
Authors: Ebrahimi P. , Hadjmohammadi M. R. 
Published: April 2006

AbstractA QSRR study was performed to develop a predictive model correlating the observed kovats retention indices of three congeneric aromatic series with their molecular structures in gas chromatography. The congeneric aromatic series included the substituted benzene, benzaldehyde and acethophenone compounds, which had been studied, previously, on six OV stationary phases with different phenyl percentages. At first, a model was generated for six columns separately, using only calculated descriptors and MLR technique. Then a combined model, added a polarity term of stationary phase (M), was also developed for all these columns, and the result was apparently satisfactory (R2=0.991, F=1009.828, SE=23.98). Since the intercept had a high value in this model, the neural network back propagation algorithm was applied for comparison, and it was found that the neural network could exceed the level of the multiple regression method. The stability and validity of both models were tested by cross‐validation technique and by predicted response values for the prediction set and test set. The results of the study indicated that a seven parameter equation can be utilized for prediction of retention indices of compounds on different OV stationary phases simultaneously using ANN technique, for which there are no empirical RI values.
Prognostic Significance of Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Connective Tissue of Patients with Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
Authors: Gimm Oliver , Heyn Viola , Krause Ulf , Sekulla Carsten , Ukkat Jörg , Dralle Henning 
Published: April 2006

AbstractIntroductionDisseminated tumor cells in the connective tissue (CT‐DTCs) do not have any connection to a primary tumor or the lymph nodes. They are identified quite often in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), but nothing is known regarding their prognostic significance.MethodsAmong 450 patients with MTC, 69 (15%) were identified as having CT‐DTCs. A case‐control group of patients without CT‐DTCs was selected. The two groups were matched concerning TNM classification, age, heredity, and sex. Because many patients with CT‐DTCs had extrathyroidal tumor extension (pT4 category), distant metastases (M1 category), or both, only 35 matched pairs could be identified. The TNM classification in both groups was as follows: pT1, n = 8; pT2, n = 15; pT3, n = 4; pT4, n = 8; pN0, n = 4; pN1, n = 31; M0, n = 30; M1, n = 5. The mean age was 46.8 ± 17.0 years in the CT‐DTC group and 44.4 ± 15.0 years in the case‐control group (NS).ResultsIn both groups, 23 patients had sporadic MTC, and 12 patients had hereditary MTC. Neither mean basal preoperative nor postoperative calcitonin levels differed significantly between the two groups. In contrast, none of the patients with CT‐DTCs was biochemically cured (normal calcitonin level after pentagastrin stimulation) compared to eight patients without CT‐DTCs (P < 0.005). The two groups did not differ concerning other parameters (basal calcitonin level >3000 pg/ml, more than 10 lymph node metastases, more than two involved locoregional lymph node compartments, mediastinal lymph node metastases) that have been reported to correlate with the lack of or almost (<10%) lack of biochemical cure.ConclusionsIn patients with MTC, disseminated tumor cells in the connective tissue correlate with advanced tumor stages and appear to be of prognostic significance.
Differential RNA Expression Profile by cDNA Microarray in Sporadic Primary Hyperparathyroidism (pHPT): Primary Parathyroid Hyperplasia versus Adenoma
Authors: Velázquez‐Fernández David , Laurell Cecilia , Saqui‐Salces Milena , Pantoja Juan Pablo , Candanedo‐Gonzalez Fernando , Reza‐Albarrán Alfredo , Gamboa‐Dominguez Armando , Herrera Miguel F. 
Published: April 2006

AbstractBackgroundDifferential diagnosis between adenoma and hyperplasia in primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) remains a dilemma. The aim of this study was to assess differences in transcriptional genomic expression profiles between sporadic (nonfamilial) parathyroid hyperplasia (SPH), adenoma, and normal tissue.MethodsParathyroid tissue from 12 patients with parathyroid adenoma, 3 with SPH, and 2 with normal glands was selected for analysis. Histopathology was reviewed in all cases, and all patients with adenomas presented normocalcemia for a minimum of 6 months after one gland resection. Hybridizations were performed in a microarray containing 19,968 human cDNA clones including contiguous replicates. Direct comparisons were performed with reverse labeling for every different pooled sample entity. Expression levels were analyzed using the SAM, SMA, LIMMA, Cluster, and PAM packages in the R environment for statistical computing.ResultsThere were significant statistical differences between SPH and adenomas. In the direct comparison, a total of 200 genes showed differential expression (P < 0.03): 61 genes were upregulated (> 1.65‐fold increase) and 139 were downregulated (> 1.58‐fold decrease) with a B value > 4.68 (99.08% probability of real differential expression). When SPH was compared to normal parathyroid tissue, 50 genes were differentially expressed: 42 were upregulated (> 1.89) and 8 were downregulated (> 1.7) with a B > 4.26 (98.6% probability of real differential expression). At least 17 genes were differentially expressed and able to discriminate SPH from adenoma or normal tissue. Upregulated genes were related to apoptosis inhibition, cell proliferation, transcriptional activity and cell adhesion, among other activities. Downregulated genes were mainly related to ion channel activity, lipopolysaccharides, prostaglandin‐d synthase, and integral membrane proteins.ConclusionsOur data suggest that SPH and adenoma have a singular molecular signature that, theoretically, could be used for the differential diagnosis of these entities and normal parathyroid tissue.
Trophic ecology of the Patagonian skate, Bathyraja macloviana, on the Argentine continental shelf
Authors: Scenna L.B. , García de la Rosa S.B. , Díaz de Astarloa J.M. 
Published: April 2006

Abstract
The diet, feeding strategy, and dentition of the Patagonian skate, Bathyraja macloviana, on the northern continental shelf of Argentina were studied from specimens collected during research cruises in September and October 2001. Of a total of 81 stomachs examined, only 3.7% were empty. Cumulative prey curves showed that sample sizes were adequate to describe the main prey items of the diet. Quantitative analysis, a graphical method, and trophic niche breadth indicated the species to be a specialized feeder. The most important prey items were polychaetes, followed by gammarid amphipods, isopods, and crabs. Cumaceans, ophiuroids, and hydrozoans were likely incidentally consumed by mature females. Sexual dimorphism in dentition was observed; mature males had longer and sharper tooth cusps than females or immature males. However, there was a high degree of dietary overlap between mature males and mature females, indicating that dental sexual dimorphism in the species is more important in reproductive behaviour than in differential prey consumption.
Supplier development: Improving supplier performance through knowledge transfer
Authors: Modi Sachin B. , Mabert Vincent A. 
Published: April 2006

AbstractThe dynamic business environment today requires organizations to effectively use all available resources to remain competitive. The quality and cost of a product or service offered in the market is a function, not only of the capabilities of the firm, but also the supplier network providing inputs to the enterprise. To remain competitive, organizations are increasingly implementing supplier development programs to maintain capable and high performance supply bases. This paper presents a conceptual model of an organization's efforts to improve supplier performance. Then latent variable structural equation modeling (LVSEM) is used to test the model with data for 215 supplier development experiences from US manufacturing firms. The results suggest that evaluation and certification efforts are the most important supplier development prerequisites before undertaking operational knowledge transfer activities such as site visits and supplier training. Furthermore, collaborative inter‐organizational communication is identified as important supporting factor in transforming an organization's efforts to develop suppliers into supplier performance improvements.
Carrying the Burden of Representation: Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions
Authors: PEACOCK JIM 
Published: April 2006

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a “box” around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?If John Cage, for instance, says, “I'm putting a contact microphone on my throat, and I'm going to drink carrot juice, and that's my composition,” then his gurgling qualifies as his composition because he put a frame around it and said so. “Take it or leave it, I nowwillthis to bemusic.” After that it's a matter of taste. Without the frame-as-announced, it's a guy swallowing carrot juice.
On a Tollmien-Schlichting wave packet produced by a turbulent spot
Authors: Wygnanski I. , Haritonidis J. H. , Kaplan R. E. 
Published: April 2006

Experimental investigations in the region following the passage of an isolated turbulent spot in a laminar boundary layer reveal the existence of a pair of oblique wave packets. These packets are swept at an angle of approximately 40°, and exhibit frequency and wave speed characteristics in agreement with predictions made for oblique Tollmien-Schlichting waves. No waves exist near the centreline of the spot.Several observations of the breakdown of this ordered motion into a new turbulent spot are shown. This breakdown is accompanied by the appearance of an intense shear layer inclined to the wall.
On the evolution of packets of water waves
Authors: Ablowitz Mark J. , Segur Harvey 
Published: April 2006

We consider the evolution of packets of water waves that travel predominantly in one direction, but in which the wave amplitudes are modulated slowly in both horizontal directions. Two separate models are discussed, depending on whether or not the waves are long in comparison with the fluid depth. These models are two-dimensional generalizations of the Korteweg-de Vries equation (for long waves) and the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (for short waves). In either case, we find that the two-dimensional evolution of the wave packets depends fundamentally on the dimensionless surface tension and fluid depth. In particular, for the long waves, one-dimensional (KdV) solitons become unstable with respect to even longer transverse perturbations when the surface-tension parameter becomes large enough, i.e. in very thin sheets of water. Two-dimensional long waves (‘lumps’) that decay algebraically in all horizontal directions and interact like solitons exist only when the one-dimensional solitons are found to be unstable.The most dramatic consequence of surface tension and depth, however, occurs for capillary-type waves in sufficiently deep water. Here a packet of waves that are everywhere small (but not infinitesimal) and modulated in both horizontal dimensions can ‘focus’ in a finite time, producing a region in which the wave amplitudes are finite. This nonlinear instability should be stronger and more apparent than the linear instabilities examined to date; it should be readily observable.Another feature of the evolution of short wave packets in two dimensions is that all one-dimensional solitons are unstable with respect to long transverse perturbations. Finally, we identify some exact similarity solutions to the evolution equations.
A visual investigation of turbulence in stagnation flow about a circular cylinder
Authors: Sadeh Willy Z. , Brauer Herbert J. 
Published: April 2006

A diagnostic visualization study of turbulence in stagnation flow around a circular cylinder was carried out to gain physical insight into the coherent structure of turbulence in flow around a bluff body advanced by the vorticity-amplification theory. The visualization was conducted at a cylinder-diameter Reynolds number of 8 × 103 utilizing titanium dioxide white smoke for an approaching flow containing turbulence at scales larger than the neutral wavelength of the stagnation flow. Analyses of the flow events focused on tracing out the temporal and spatial evolution of a cross-vortex tube outlined by the entrained smoke filaments from its emergence near the stagnation zone through its penetration into the cylinder boundary layer.The selective stretching of cross-vortex tubes, their streamwise tilting, the emergence of an organized turbulent flow pattern near the stagnation zone, the interaction of the amplified vorticity with the body laminar boundary layer and the growth of a turbulent boundary layer were revealed by the visualization. In particular, the visualization indicated that the cross-vortex tubes conveyed by the diverging stagnation flow constitute a coherent substructure within the overall turbulent flow that is triggered to its fullest manifestation by the stretching mechanism.
MIGRATION AND MELANCHOLIA: FROM KRISTEVA'S ‘DÉPRESSION NATIONALE’ TO PINEAU'S ‘MALADIE DE L'EXIL’
Authors: Haigh Sam 
Published: April 2006

Abstract

In her recent
Contre la dépression nationale
, Kristeva argues that France is currently suffering from a ‘national depression’ that is similar in character to the individual depression of the patient seeking psychoanalysis. Having never recovered its national self-esteem after the Second World War, France has, according to Kristeva, become isolated and inward-looking and, like the depressed analysand, is in need of a restored self-image. Openness to the other, the foreigner, the immigrant is one way in which France can rescue itself from depression and, building on its post-revolutionary, Enlightenment tradition of hospitality, begin to thrive and evolve once more. What is striking, of course, is that the immigrant him- or herself disappears as subject, and instead remains simply a means through which the French subject may be healed. Through an analysis of the dynamics of melancholia, this essay examines both Kristeva's notion of ‘national depression’ and what Chinese-American theorist Anne Anlin Cheng has recently termed the ‘racial melancholia’ of the migrant subject elided by Kristeva. More specifically, and taking Gisèle Pineau's
L'Exil selon Julia
as an example, it examines the ‘maladie de l'exil’ of the French Caribbean migrant subject who has been left out by almost all studies of immigration in France but who can be seen to have functioned as France's primary ‘melancholic object’.
Traumatic Peripheral Nerve Injuries: Demographic and Electrophysiologic Findings of 802 Patients from a Developing Country
Authors: Uzun Nurten , Tanriverdi Taner , Savrun Feray Karaali , Kiziltan Meral Erdemir , Sahin Rahsan , Hanimoglu Hakan , Hanci Murat 
Published: April 2006

Objective
To study a series of patients with traumatic peripheral nerve injury during the past 10 years in Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty/Istanbul/Turkey.

Methods
The chart review of 802 patients was evaluated and we explored the type(s) and cause(s) of injury, and electromyographic findings. The study included 171 children and 631 adults and we excluded the patients who suffered from injuries due to the Marmara earthquakes that occurred in 1999.

Results
Injury was most common in the upper extremities in both children (78.36%) and adults (63.54%). The common causes of nerve injury in children were as follows: obstetric lesions (46.78%), iatrogenic lesions (16.95%), traffic accidents (15.7%), and sharp lacerations (12.8%), whereas the commonest cause of nerve injury in adults was due to sharp lacerations (27.57%), followed by iatrogenic lesions (25.67%), and traffic accidents (23.77%). The most commonly injured nerves were the brachial plexus and ulnar nerve in children and adults, respectively. Electromyography demonstrated that complete nerve injury predominated in both groups.

Conclusions
If preventive measures are taken into consideration satisfactorily, the incidence of disabling peripheral nerve injury may decrease, as such injuries are often treatable.
Evaluation of Some Coagulation Parameters in Hepatic Coccidiosis Experimentally Induced with Eimeria stiedai in Rabbits
Authors: ÇAm Y. , ÇEtİn E. , İça A. , Atalay Ö. , ÇEtİn N. 
Published: April 2006

SummaryThe objective of this study was to evaluate some coagulation parameters in hepatic coccidiosis experimentally induced with Eimeria stiedai in rabbits. Fourteen healthy New Zealand rabbits were equally divided into two groups. One group received no treatment, the other group was orally inoculated with 40 000 sporulated oocysts of E. stiedai in a 1 ml inoculum using a catheter. At day 24 after inoculation, blood samples were collected into sodium citrate‐containing tubes to evaluate some coagulation parameters. Although statistically not significant, infected rabbits had prolonged prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time compared with rabbits in the control group. A significant reduction (P < 0.05) was observed in the level of fibrinogen of infected rabbits compared with that of the controls. A slight decrease in thrombocyte counts of infected rabbits was not statistically significant.
Clinicopathological features of severe corneal blood staining associated with proliferative diabetic retinopathy
Authors: Patel Hussain , Patel Dipika V , Brookes Nigel H , McGhee Charles NJ 
Published: April 2006

AbstractA 54‐year‐old man with a history of severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy in both eyes and profound visual impairment presented with severe corneal blood staining in the left eye secondary to a ‘spontaneous’ total hyphaema and raised intraocular pressure in an eye with iris neovascularization. Despite anterior chamber washout, the cornea remained virtually opaque and thickened. The subject subsequently underwent pars plana vitrectomy with endolaser using a temporary keratoprosthesis, insertion of a Morcher iris‐surround intraocular lens and penetrating keratoplasty. Histopathology of the excised corneal button revealed fine eosinophilic granules composed of aggregations of haemoglobin and its breakdown products dispersed throughout the stroma, with occasional foci of weakly positive Perl staining for intracellular haemosiderin. Fluorescence confocal microscopy revealed a marked increase in fluorescence throughout the corneal stroma and the basal epithelial layer. This case highlights the microstructural features and aspects of the surgical management of severe corneal blood staining.
Clinical Case Notes
Authors: Chang John H , O'Donnell Brett A 
Published: April 2006

AbstractCenturion syndrome is an uncommon, idiopathic medial canthal anomaly that causes epiphora due to the forward displacement of the lacrimal punctum out of the tear lake associated with the abnormal anterior insertion of the medial canthal tendon and enophthalmos. A case of Centurion syndrome is presented together with the description of a previously unreported surgical treatment: the combined surgical techniques of medial canthal tendon release and lower eyelid retractor plication.
Effects of a mixed‐isolate mycorrhizal inoculum on the potato – potato cyst nematode interaction
Authors: RYAN N A , DELIOPOULOS T , JONES P , HAYDOCK P P J 
Published: April 2006

SummaryInoculation of microplants of potato cv. Golden Wonder with Vaminoc, a mycorrhizal inoculum of three arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomus spp.), resulted in an increase in in‐sand hatch of Globodera pallida, but not G. rostochiensis, within 2 weeks. By this time, mycorrhized plants also supported a larger number of feeding nematodes of both PCN species (50% higher for G. rostochiensis) than did non‐mycorrhized plants, with a higher proportion of the G. pallida population being fertilised females than for G. rostochiensis. After 12 weeks, the multiplication rate of G. rostochiensis on mycorrhized plants was significantly greater than on non‐mycorrhized plants, whereas no such difference was observed for G. pallida.The principal component of PCN multiplication affected by mycorrhization was increased cyst number per plant from 6 to 12 weeks. Over this period, there was no increase in cyst number per plant for either PCN species on non‐mycorrhized plants, whereas the value increased on mycorrhized plants for both G. rostochiensis (by almost 200%) and G. pallida (57%). Mycorrhization resulted in significant increases in the root and shoot dry weights of plants grown in the absence of PCN. Although mycorrhized plants carried a larger PCN burden than non‐mycorrhized plants when grown on PCN‐infested medium, as a result of the increased PCN multiplication rate, they produced larger root systems than did nonmycorrhized plants, suggesting increased tolerance to PCN of the mycorrhized plants, particularly to G. rostochiensis. Of morphological characters investigated in the absence of PCN, only stem height (increased) was significantly affected by mycorrhization. Colonisation by mycorrhizal fungi resulted in increased tuber yield both in the absence (significant increase) and presence (non significant) of PCN, as a result of increased tuber number per plant. These results are discussed in the light of the possible use of AMF as part of an integrated PCN management plan.