Criminological theorists and criminal justice policy makers place a great deal of importance on the idea of desistance. in general terms, criminal desistance refers to a cessation of offending activity among those who have offended in the past. Some significant challenges await those who would estimate the relative size of the desisting population or attempt to identify factors that predict mem...

Results: 1-st case: A 6 year-old boy was admitted to the hospital with complaints of weakness and limping during the last 1.5 years. He had also selflimited episodes of knee and foot pain. The physical examination revealed pain on flexion of the left knee, painful palpation of both sacroiliac joints, but no visible or palpable changes of the joints. Initial laboratory examination showed elevati...

BACKGROUND Attenuation correction (AC) improves the diagnostic outcome of stress-only myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using conventional SPECT. Our aim was to determine the value of AC using a cadmium zinc telluride-based (CZT)-SPECT camera. METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively included 107 consecutive patients who underwent stress-optional rest MPI CZT-SPECT/CT. Next, we created three t...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study (level of evidence: level 3). PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and radiological results of the posterior-only approach with pedicle screws for the treatment of Scheuermann's kyphosis (SK). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The correction of SK with instrumentation can be performed using posterior-only or combined anterior-posterior procedu...

You have an application that reads in configuration data at start-up. Your program consists of multiple threads with similar functionality. Some of the configuration data applies to all threads; the other part of the data applies to individual threads only. The configuration data should be read-only after it has been provided at start-up. This paper introduces the pattern Configuration Provider...

Social psychological research often relies on measures of group identification in assessing levels o f group consciousness. However, for women, the relationship between gender identification and group consciousness may not be a straightforward one. Questionnaire data were used to examine the relationships between measures of group identity and group evaluations with other attitudinal, phenomeno...