Europe after Maastricht— Have the monetary questions been settled?

Questioning the questions that have been asked about the infant brain using near-infrared spectroscopy.

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive diffuse optical-imaging technique that can measure local metabolic demand in the surface of the cortex due to differential absorption of light by oxygenated and deoxygenated blood. Over the past decade, NIRS has become increasingly used as a complement to other neuroimaging techniques, such as electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalograph...

Testosterone supplementation in the aging male: which questions have been answered?

PURPOSE There is no consensus on possible benefits and risks of testosterone supplementation. Here we review various controlled studies of testosterone supplementation in aging males. METHODS We performed a PubMed search using the terms "testosterone/therapeutic use" with the limits " > 65 years of age", "randomized controlled clinical trials", and "male gender", starting in 1999. RESULTS F...

EMU after two years : Have critics been confirmed ?

have the infected total hip arthroplasty been still catastrophic?

background: the infection after total hip arthroplasty is one of the major and catastrophic complications and often cause multiple procedures, heavy cost and life threatens and disability for the patient. in this study, we report our experience about infected total hip arthroplasty. methods: in this study, among patients referred to kashani hospital in isfahan, iran from 2001 to 2007, 659 patie...

Where Have You Been? Using Location-Based Security Questions for Fallback Authentication

In this paper, we propose and evaluate the combination of location-based authentication with security questions as a more usable and secure fallback authentication scheme. A four weeks user study with an additional evaluation after six months was conducted to test the feasibility of the concept in the context of long-term fallback authentication. The results show that most users are able to rec...