We treated the liquid refusal of a 15-month-old girl using 2 antecedent manipulations: flipped spoon and chin prompt. Use of the chin prompt in the absence of the flipped spoon failed to produce increases in mouth clean (a product measure of swallowing). By contrast, modest increases in mouth clean resulted from the implementation of the flipped spoon alone. The greatest increases in mouth clea...

TTC’2015 is the 8th Transformation Tool Contest for users and developers of transformation tools. In this paper, we present the use of Spoon, an open-source library to transform and analyze Java source code for the code refactoring track of TTC’2015. We use Spoon to implement pull-up-method and create super-class refactorings. The implementation uses an unmodified revision of Spoon and is done ...

Voxel-based analysis (VBA) is commonly used for statistical analysis of image data, including the detection of significant signal differences between groups. Typically, images are co-registered and then smoothed with an isotropic Gaussian kernel to compensate for image misregistration, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), to reduce the number of multiple comparisons, and to apply random ...

background: nail disorders comprise approximately 10% of all dermatological conditions. abnormalities in the color of nails are called ungal dyschromia or chromonychia. ungual dyschromia may be endogenous or exogenous. yellow discoloration of the nails has been reported during the last years as separate observation related to drug administration, during hemodialysis and associated with pulmonar...

mon clinical problem facing gastroenterologists and surgeons. Most foreign bodies pass spontaneously but long objects in the range of 6–10 cm in length are less likely to pass the duodenal curve and often require removal from the stomach [1]. Endoscopic retrieval is challenging due to difficulties in orienting the object parallel to the esophagus in a secure fashion in order to facilitate remov...

To the Editor—It is common but erroneous practice among the general public to insert an object into the patient’s mouth during a convulsion to prevent him or her from biting the tongue or lips. This can actually cause more harm than good. Using a metal object, such as a spoon, may cause injury to the mouth or result in broken teeth, while objects like pencils or sticks may be bitten into pieces...