BACKGROUND Delayed recovery in persons after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is poorly understood. Community integration (CI) is endorsed by persons with neurological disorders as an important outcome. We aimed to describe CI and its associated factors in insured Ontario workers with delayed recovery following mTBI. METHODS A cross-sectional study of insured workers in the chronic phase fo...

A large number of studies have identified trajectories of adjustment following acute and aversive life events. In these studies, a stable trajectory of positive health or resilience is almost always the modal outcome (Bonanno, 2004; Bonanno et al., 2011). Infurna and Luthar (2016, this issue) reported that they replicated findings from two early studies in which trajectories of subjective well-...

Medical malpractice may be defined as damage suffered by a patient resulting from professional negligence on the part of the carer.2 Modern medicine is an art of healing and caring backed by scientific evidence. Doctors can promise in good faith to do their best for patients but they cannot warrant cure or desirable outcomes. It is clear therefore that mere damage is not a sufficient condition ...

The fixation properties of a simple prisoner's dilemma game in the presence of "cooperation facilitators" have recently been investigated in finite and well-mixed populations for various dynamics [Mobilia, Phys. Rev. E 86, 011134 (2012)]. In a Comment, Miękisz claims that, for cooperation to be favored by selection in the standard prisoner's dilemma games with facilitators, it suffices that f(C...

In a recent issue of TREE, Coleman and Gross’ claim that if life history theory is incorporated, it appears that the Concorde fallacy, originally proposed by Dawkin+, is itself a fallacy. They conclude that ‘There is no role for the Concorde fallacy in understanding parental-investment theory’. In this last comment they may be right. However, the idea is not new. Dawkins, in The Exrended fhenor...

1 From the Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 2 Department of Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 3 National Trauma Research Institute and The Alfred, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 5 Melbourne Law School, University of Me...

abstract traumatic rupture of the distal biceps tendon is rare. conservative treatment can result in reduced flexion and supination power with reduced function. this case report emphasizes the need for prompt surgical treatment and describes the possible complications of delayed surgical intervention.

purpose: to report the clinical, paraclinical and histopathologic features of eyelid mass lesions in a patient with tuberous sclerosis. case report: a 14 year old boy with a slowly progressive right upper lid mass and history of seizures, mental retardation and multiple skin lesions on the face and body was referred to labbafinejad medical center. cortical tubers and subepandimal nodules were r...

This paper’s approach to semantic integrity management is that in order to maintain an integrity constraint, some variables of the constraint may be operated on while others may not This defines integrity dependencies between vsiables. Various examples of integrity dependencies and their meanings are discussed. In addition to corresponding to real world practice, integrity dependencies can be u...