The construct validity and construct responsiveness of the performance scale of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) was measured in 87 newly admitted patients with chronic pain attending an outpatient rehabilitation clinic. At admission and after 12 wk, patients completed a COPM interview, the Pain Disability Index (PDI), and the RAND 36-Item Health Survey (RAND-36). We determi...

The three motivations behind the Rand index [4], a general clustering evaluation metric, can be rephrased in coreference terms: (i) every mention is unequivocably assigned to a specific entity; (ii) entities are defined just as much by those mentions which they do not contain as by those mentions which they do contain; and (iii) all mentions are of equal importance in the determination of the e...

BACKGROUND In a previous study of robot-assisted neck dissection (RAND), we limited the indication for neck dissection in clinical N0 head and neck cancer. The purpose of this study was for us to present the comparison of the results of therapeutic RAND via a retroauricular or modified facelift approach with outcomes from conventional neck dissection in clinical node-positive head and neck canc...

In Feder v. Martin Marietta Corp.' the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found Martin Marietta Corporation liable under Section 16(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 19342 for shortswing profits realized on the sale of stock of Sperry Rand Corporation, purchased while Martin Marietta's president was on the Sperry board of directors and sold after he resigned that directorship. Marti...

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