Transient quadriplegia is a rare injury that can change the course of an athlete's career if misdiagnosed or managed inappropriately. The clinician should be well versed in the return-to-play criteria for this type of injury. Unfortunately, when an unknown preexisting syrinx is present in the athlete, there is less guidance on their ability to return to play. This case report and review of the ...

This paper analyzes job mismatches in Switzerland based on a subjective measure of overqualification. According to job search and job matching theories, overqualification is a transitory problem for the individual worker that results from informational deficits. This problem ceases to exist once access to better information about the labor market allows the worker to move to a job with a better...

article looks at definitions of peace from a cultural studies perspective, suggesting that binary oppositions governing such fields as peace and war, individual and society, tradition and modernity offer few grounds for progress towards peace. The article suggests instead that the utopian principle of hope can be recruited for a culture of peace based on the surrender to difference, at a subjec...

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We introduce a framework and develop a theory of ‘transitory’ queueing models. These are models that are not only non-stationary and time-varying but also have other features such as the queueing system operates over finite time, or only a finite population arrives. Such models are relevant in many real-world settings, from queues at post-offices, DMV, concert halls and stadia to out-patient de...