The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) in patients suffering from dysphagia following treatment for head and neck cancer. In a prospective, double blinded, randomized case control study between January 2006 and December 2007, 14 patients were randomized to 30min of NMES and 30min of traditional swallowing training for 5 days per week ...

Offending pathways of sexual homicide perpetrators were explored with a focus on whether the pathways for those with a previous conviction for rape or attempted rape differed from those who had no such convictions. The criteria for sexual homicide was taken from the UK National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Offender Assessment System (OASys) research database, and included murders where a ...

Bank of Canada working papers are theoretical or empirical works-in-progress on subjects in economics and finance. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors. No responsibility for them should be attributed to the Bank of Canada. ii Acknowledgements We are grateful to participants of the workshop at the Bank of Canada for helpful comments. We thank Benjamin Evens for excellent r...

Résumé Cet article propose une méthode de classification sémantique des noms qui repose sur l’application tests distributionnels. Sont présentées 14 classes sémantiquement simples regroupées en trois pôles : (i) les dénotant entités (comme cerf, pont, table) , (ii) situations promenade, intelligence, délabrement ) et (iii) relevant marge deux précédentes minute, hypothèse, euro ). S’y ajoutent ...

Introduction: Natural organic matters (NOMs) existing in water resources led to various problems such as formation of disinfectant by-products (DBPs). Humic matters like humic acid (HA) are component of NOMs that should be removed from water. Advanced oxidation process (AOPs) is one of the NOMs removal methods. The aim of this study was to survey the degradation of humic acid by electron beam i...

Les principaux outils de visualisation de données multidimensionnelles sont d’une part les analyses en axes principaux, qui portent des noms divers mais qui sont presque toutes fondées sur la décomposition aux valeurs singulières, et d’autre part les méthodes de classification, incluant les cartes auto-organisées de Kohonen. Ces deux familles d’outils sont d’ailleurs complémentaires, et leur us...