BACKGROUND Valid and reliable questionnaires to assess hip and groin pain are lacking. The Hip and Groin Outcome Score (HAGOS) is a valid and reliable self-reported measure to assess symptoms, activity limitations, participation restrictions and quality of life of persons with hip and/or groin complaints. The purpose of this study was to translate and cross-culturally adapt the HAGOS into Dutch...

The auditory nuclei of the chick brain stem have distinct morphologies and highly specific synaptic connectivity. Nucleus magnocellularis (NM) and nucleus angularis receive tonotopically ordered cochlear input. NM in turn projects tonotopically to nucleus laminaris (NL), maintaining binaural specificity with projections to either dorsal or ventral NL dendrites. NM and NL arise from a common anl...

We do not know how humans reason, whether they reason using natural language (NL) or not and we are not interested in proving or disproving such a proposition. Nonetheless, it seems that a very expressive transparent medium humans communicate with, state their problems in and justify how they solve these problems is NL. Hence, we wished to use NL as a Knowledge Representation(KR) in NL knowledg...

Lameness in sows has an economic impact on pig production and is a major welfare concern. The aim of the present project was to develop methods to evaluate and quantify lameness in breeding sows. Five methods to study lameness were compared between themselves and with visual gait scoring used as a reference: footprint analysis, kinematics, accelerometers, lying-to-standing transition and foot l...

Lamin family proteins are structural components of a filamentous framework, the nuclear lamina (NL), underlying the inner membrane of nuclear envelope. The NL not only plays a role in nucleus mechanical support and nuclear shaping, but is also involved in many cellular processes including DNA replication, gene expression and chromatin positioning. Spermatogenesis is a very complex differentiati...

The neurophonic potential is a synchronized frequency-following extracellular field potential that can be recorded in the nucleus laminaris (NL) in the brainstem of the barn owl. Putative generators of the neurophonic are the afferent axons from the nucleus magnocellularis, synapses onto NL neurons, and spikes of NL neurons. The outputs of NL, i.e., action potentials of NL neurons, are only wea...

The total and sialidase-releasable sialic acid contents of murine colon adenocarcinoma 26 sublines of high (NL-17) and low (NL-44) metastatic potential were found to be positively correlated with their ability to undergo metastasis. Furthermore, sialyltransferase activity of intact NL-17 cells was higher than that of NL-44 cells. These findings suggest that sialic acid on the cell surface may p...

BACKGROUND Nephrolithiasis (NL) is known to be associated with gout, although there are few comparative studies on risk and risk factors for NL in gout compared to population cohorts. In this cohort study we investigated: (1) overall incidence of NL in gout (cases) and general population controls; (2) risk and risk factors (common comorbidities and medications) for first-time NL in cases and co...

In modern software engineering practice, the ability to specify ambiguity less software requirements in a natural language (NL) in a seamless way is highly valuable and desirable. Though, the software requirements are typically captured in natural languages (NL) such as English, there is a very high probability that more than half NL requirements can be ambiguous. For example, Mich identified t...