Which Utterance Types Are Most Suitable to Detect Hypernasality Automatically?

Which presidents are most memorable?

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE Episodic memory loss is a hall-mark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with recall of recent events becoming progressively difficult. A commonly used tool, the recollection of US presidents, was assessed in evaluating episodic versus semantic memory loss among AD patients compared with spouse controls. METHODS A total of 36 patients (12 men, 24 women) with possible or probable ...

Which postures are most suitable in assessing spinal fusion using radiostereometric analysis?

BACKGROUND Up to now, plain radiographs are not well suited to assess spinal fusion. Radiostereometric analysis performed for two postures may deliver more reliable results. However, it is unknown, which postures are most suitable for this procedure. METHODS In a finite element study, spinal fusion at the level L4-5 was simulated assuming a posterior approach and the implantation of two cages...

Which Manufacturing Sectors Are Most Vulnerable to Brexit?

Which molecular targets are most relevant to general anaesthesia?

1. In view of the large number of possible molecular targets of general anaesthetics, it is necessary to have some criteria for judging which targets are important for producing general anaesthesia and which are probably not. 2. We consider in detail two criteria: sensitivity to clinically relevant concentrations of anaesthetics and stereoselectivity to anaesthetic optical isomers. 3. The targe...

Which types of alcohol-use disorder will asialotransferrin detect?

To the Editor: Approximately 20% of patients seen in clinical practice have an underlying alcohol-use disorder (1 ). In the last 20 years, specialist work on alcohol misuse has focused mainly on diagnosis at the dependence stage. However, there is also a need to direct attention to alcohol abuse, the long, little-studied, and insufficiently treated disease during which processes damaging to hea...