Media reports suggest that the number of assaults due to penetrating injuries (e.g.: knife attacks, glass assaults) have increased in Queensland in recent years. However, this remains conjecture, since there have been no attempts to evaluate trends in relation to penetrating injuries. The purpose of this report is to describe recent trends in penetrating injuries which resulted in a hospital in...

RATIONALE Penetrating astigmatic keratotomy (penetrating AK) is a well-known method to correct corneal astigmatism but rarely be performed nowadays. This article reevaluated the clinical effectiveness and confounding factors of penetrating AK. PATIENT CONCERNS Penetrating AK has been introduced to serve as one alternative operation for astigmatism correction, and is thought to have the potent...

Gestures are usually looked at in isolation or from an intra-propositional perspective essentially tied to one speaker. The Bielefeld multi-modal Speech-AndGesture-Alignment (SAGA) corpus has many interactive gestures relevant for the structure of dialogue (Rieser 2008, 2009). To describe them, a dialogue theory is needed which can serve as a speechgesture interface. PTT (Poesio and Traum 1997,...