OBJECTIVES To determine patterns on pain diagrams and corresponding diagnoses in patients referred to a rheumatology clinic and their sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values (PPV and NPV, respectively). METHODS All new adult patient referrals from two rheumatologists over 6 years were reviewed and eligible if a pain diagram had been completed and they were not pr...

A new double-seeded insert (DSI) technique is described for culture of branchial epithelial preparations from freshwater rainbow trout on filter supports. DSI epithelia contain both pavement cells and mitochondria-rich (MR) cells (15.7+/-2.5 % of total cell numbers). MR cells occur singly or in clusters, are voluminous, open apically to the 'external environment' and exhibit ultrastructural cha...

We undertake a study of the performance difference of different transform coding techniques i.e. block truncation coding (BTC), wavelet, embedded zerotree transform and fractal image compression. This paper focuses important features of transform coding in compression of still images, including the extent to which the quality of image is degraded by the process of compression and decompression....

The aim of this article was to study sound source localization by cochlear implant (CI) listeners with low-frequency (LF) acoustic hearing in both the operated ear and in the contralateral ear. Eight CI listeners had symmetrical LF acoustic hearing and 4 had asymmetrical LF acoustic hearing. The effects of two variables were assessed: (i) the symmetry of the LF thresholds in the two ears and (i...

This study examined the role of facial symmetry in the judgment of physical attractiveness. Four experiments investigated people's preference for either somewhat asymmetrical portraits or their symmetrical chimeric composites when presented simultaneously. Experiment 1 found a higher selection rate for symmetrical faces with neutral expression for portraits of old people, and Experiment 2 indic...

Monolingual text-to-text generation is an emerging research area in Natural Language Processing. One reason for the interest in such generation systems is the possibility to automatically learn text-to-text generation strategies from aligned monolingual corpora. In this context, paraphrase detection can be seen as the task of aligning sentences that convey the same information but yet are writt...

Low concentrations of methanol, 2-propanol and ethylene glycol increase the asymmetry of the flagellar waveforms ad the turning rate of both live sperm and potentially symmetrical sperm reactivated with 1 mM-MgATP2-, while at the same time causing a decrease in the heat frequency. Similar effects are observed if the solvents are added to preparations of potentially symmetrical sperm reactivated...

To reach and fertilize the egg, mammalian spermatozoa change their flagellar movement in the female reproductive tract, named hyperactivation. The biochemical analyses of the hyperactivated movement using demembranated spermatozoa defined the factors inducing this peculiar movement; namely, large asymmetrical flagellar movement observed in the early stage of the hyperactivation was induced with...