Commonly encountered feline behavior problems

Better discrimination of small changes in commonly encountered than in less commonly encountered auditory stimuli.

Results from 3 auditory tasks revealed that small changes made in stimuli commonly encountered in everyday life are more easily discriminated than are the same changes made in stimuli not as commonly encountered. The tasks required discrimination of a frequency difference in 1 tone of 6-tone chords or nonchords, discrimination of a duration difference in 1 note of common tunes or nontunes, and ...

Commonly encountered difficulties in pathologic staging of lung cancer.

CONTEXT Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Despite technological, therapeutic, and scientific advances, most patients present with incurable disease and a poor chance of long-term survival. For those with potentially curable disease, lung cancer staging greatly influences therapeutic decisions. Therefore, surgical pathologists determine many facets of lung cancer pa...

Problems encountered in leg shortening.

We reviewed 46 leg-shortening operations (37 femoral and nine tibial), performed by different methods, to assess the incidence of complications and permanent disability. Shortening of as much as 7.5 cm in the femur and 5 cm in the tibia was achieved in men of normal height without any loss of function. Complications were seen with all surgical techniques despite the use of modern implants. Most...

Inappropriate Feline Elimination Behavior

AIDS: problems encountered in anthropological research.

Medical science has up to now not discovered a means to fight HTV and it is obvious that the ep idem ic can only be con tro lled by prevention. Those disciplines from the hum anities that could make the most meaningful contribution in this regard would be those that study, or ought to study sexuality, nam ely , p sycho logy , socio logy and anthropology. The communication sciences and nursing b...