BACKGROUND Limited information is available on the variation in injury rates over multiple seasons of professional football. AIM To analyse time-trends in injury characteristics of male professional football players over 11 consecutive seasons. METHODS A total of 1743 players comprising 27 teams from 10 countries were followed prospectively between 2001 and 2012. Team medical staff recorded...

INTRODUCTION Cholecystocolic fistula is a rare complication of gallbladder disease. Its clinical presentation is variable and nonspecific, and the diagnosis is made, mostly, incidentally during intraoperative maneuver. Cholecystectomy with closure of the fistula is considered the treatment of choice for the condition, with an increasingly reproducible tendency to the use of laparoscopy. AIM T...

HSU, CHIH-CHIEH. Efficient Evaluation of Highly Available Services: Fast Simulation and Testing. (Under the direction of Professor Michael Devetsikiotis). Modern technologies have provided us with highly available services. Systems such as optical backbone networks, robust web servers, and reliable software can provide a service with unavailability probability lower than 10−6. Although rare, se...

In summary, emotion dysregulation can develop from brief or more prolonged separations from the mother as well as from the more disturbing effects of her emotional unavailability, such as occurs when she is depressed. Harmonious interaction with the mother or the primary caregiver (attunement) of the mother's physical unavailability were seen in studies of separations from the mother due to her...

The SRISL performed the dependability analysis of a very large volume neutrino telescope in the KM3NeT project (EU FP6 KM3NeT Design Study, Contract no. 011937), as part of the work group on «Risk assessment and quality assurance». The KM3NeT is an over M€300 European project involving 40 institutes or university groups from 10 countries, to design, install and operate a deep‐sea research infra...

Compulsive forms of eating displayed by some obese individuals share similarities with compulsive drug-taking behaviour, a hallmark feature substance use disorder. This raises the possibility that drug addiction treatments may show utility in treatment overeating. N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) is cysteine pro-drug which has experienced success clinical trials, reducing cocaine, marijuana and cigarette...