An incomplete stop consonant is characterized either by an indistinguishable closure or a missing burst. If an incomplete stop happens due to a stop following another stop [stop-stop interaction (SSI)], its acoustics typically resemble that of a complete stop-one closure followed by a single burst. As a consequence, stop detectors would fail to distinguish an SSI from a complete stop. Analysis ...

We surveyed patients to determine awareness and knowledge regarding risks and consequences of and prevention of surgical site infection (SSI), and we found that 26% of respondents thought that education for SSI prevention could be improved and that 16% could not recall discussing SSI risks and prevention with a health care worker at all. Only 60% of patients recalled receiving an informational ...

The Static Single Information (SSI) form is a compiler intermediate representation that allows efficient sparse implementations of predicated analysis and backward dataflow algorithms. It possesses several attractive graph-theoretic properties which aid in program analysis. An extension to SSI form, SSI+, is also presented, along with a complete executable abstract semantics for the representat...

The causal relationship between SSI benefits and employment status is examined, to determine if SSI reduces disabled employment. An econometric approach not previously used to study this question employs bivariate probit models and captures the marginal effects on work status and SSI enrollment. Additionally, state-level explanatory variables are used to capture the inherent differences between...

We prospectively evaluated 46 possible risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surgical site infection (SSI) among patients with MRSA carriage in a large intervention study. Of 6,130 study patients, 68 (1.1%) developed MRSA SSI, which occurred a median of 14 days after surgery. Risk factors associated with MRSA SSI were receipt of emergency surgery, presence of comor...

Immigrants residing among many co-ethnics are especially likely to receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for a disability when they belong to high SSI take-up immigrant groups. After showing that this relationship cannot be fully explained by differences in health, we consider the likely sources of these network effects by separately examining their role in the decision to apply for SSI an...

1.0 I 1.7 2.4 5.8 I.8 j 9.8 Alcoholics and Drug Addicts Receiving SSI Payments, August 1977” The supplemental security income program (SSI), which began operation January 1974, replaced the Federal grants to States for aid to the aged, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled in the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Alcoholics and drug addicts may receive SSI payments as disabl...

Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is a national priority in healthcare research. Much research attention has been attracted to develop better SSI risk prediction models. However, most of the existing SSI risk prediction models are built on static risk factors such as comorbidities and operative factors. In this paper, we investigate the use of the dynamic wound data for SSI risk prediction. There h...

BACKGROUND The incidence of wound infections associated with instrumented spine surgery ranges from 2 to 20%. These complications may lead to poor outcomes. Knowing the risk factors associated with surgical site infections (SSI) after utilizing spinal implants is essential to avoid these complications, including hardware removal. METHODS We reviewed retrospectively 550 patients who underwent ...

OBJECTIVE The Stigmatizing Situations Inventory (SSI) is one of the most commonly used measures of weight stigma experiences but may be impractical for some researchers because of its length (50 items). The present report describes the development and validation of a brief version of the SSI that could be used as a more efficient tool for assessing experiences with weight stigma. METHODS In s...