PURPOSE To compare outcomes of different conservative treatments for flatfoot using the foot print index and valgus index. METHODS 150 symptomatic flatfoot patients and 50 controls (without any flatfoot or lower limb deformity) aged older than 8 years were evaluated. The diagnosis was based on pain during walking a distance, the great toe extension test, the valgus index, the foot print index...

Variable-duration oscillations and repetitive, high-voltage spikes have been recorded in the electrocorticogram (ECoG) of rats weeks and months after fluid percussion injury (FPI), a model of traumatic brain injury. These ECoG events, which have many similarities to spike-wave-discharges (SWDs) and absence seizures, have been proposed to represent nonconvulsive seizures characteristic of posttr...

Despite the rise of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) as a dominant international capital flow, existing international tax policy norms are largely focused on the taxation of FDI. This paper proposes a new principle global portfolio neutrality (GPN) for assessing the efficiency of tax policy towards FPI. With respect to outbound FPI, GPN entails imposing the same tax rate on domestic and forei...

Sports participation may lead to musculoskeletal adaptation and alter foot posture; however, the effect of high impact sports on foot posture has not fully been understood yet. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in foot posture between elite collegiate athletes participating in high impact sports and sedentary college students using the Foot Posture Index (FPI). Foot po...

Active Queue Management (AQM) policies are those policies of router queue management that allow the detection of network congestion, the notification of such occurrences to the hosts on the network borders, and the adoption of a suitable control policy. This paper proposes the adoption of a Fuzzy Proportional Integral (FPI) controller as an active queue manager for Internet routers. The analyti...