THE SPINAL INSTITUTION.

Spinal cord glioblastoma: 25years of experience from a single institution.

Accounting for less than 0.2% of all glioblastomas, high grade gliomas of the spinal cord are very rare. Here, we discuss our approach to managing patients with high grade spinal cord glioma and review the literature on the subject. Six patients with high grade spinal cord gliomas who presented to our institution between 1990 and 2015 were reviewed. Each patient underwent subtotal surgical rese...

Monitoring evoked potentials during spinal surgery in one institution.

PURPOSE To review the experience of one tertiary care institution with somatosensory evoked potential (SSEP) monitoring during spinal surgery in order to assess the ability to monitor and predict neurological outcome effectively. METHODS Records of all patients undergoing spinal surgery during 18 mo were retrospectively reviewed. Information from the patient chart included preoperative neurol...

An Account of the Epidemic of Cerebro-Spinal Fever in the Borstal Institution

New Global Governance and the Future of the State Institution in the Middle East

Changes in the international system, along with crises in the Middle East and the emergence of inefficient states coexisting with religious and racial groups in the region, make one wonder about the nature of the state in today’s systematic world, in general, and the nature of the state in the Middle East, in particular. The present study provides a theoretical framework based on quantum mechan...

The Brookings Institution

Economists have long believed that investments in education, or “human capital,” are an important source of economic growth. Over the last 40 years output has grown about 3.5 percent a year and the productivity of labor has grown about 2.4 percent per year. The contribution of education to labor productivity growth is estimated to be between 13 and 30 percent of the total. Further, many people ...