introduction: reconstruction of intraoral soft tissue defects is important in restoring function and esthetic. in large defects, there will be demand for regional pedicle flaps or free flaps. hard palate separates nasal and oral cavities. due to the small surface area between flap and remaining palate after surgical resections, optimal blood supply of the flaps for hard palate reconstructions a...

An editorial by Churchill-Davidson in 1965 expressed the clinical problem succinctly: ‘To reverse, or not to reverse’: that is the question! Since the introduction of d-tubocurarine into clinical anaesthesia this question has received opposing answers’. Now, more than six decades later this issue has yet to be resolved. The introduction of neuromuscular blocking drugs (NMBD) into anaesthetic pr...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is increasingly used to modify brain activity noninvasively and to study brain-behavior relations. However, results can be variable and the conditions that affect the functional efficacy of TMS remain unclear. Here we show that on-line TMS can either facilitate or suppress perceptual functions depending on the baseline level of activity of the targeted br...

OBJECTIVE To verify if post-ureteroscopy (URS) stenting is still necessary as a routine strategy, or if some cases can be treated without. METHODS Between August 2004 and April 2005, 85 patients were admitted to the Urology Department at the Nephrology and Urology Center, Al-Thawra Hospital, Yemen with ureteric stones of different size and site. All were scheduled and treated by the ureterosc...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(3) Introduction Without assurances about confidentiality, clients (confiders) may be reluctant to give health professionals (confidants) the information they need in order to provide good care. In a European Court of Human Rights case, a woman’s doctor had been compelled to reveal her HIV positivity in court in connection with the investigation of s...

      In order to ensure the safety of parenterals, international pharmacopoeias and national standards have set up stringent guidelines and standards. Particulate con- tamination is a potential health risk caused by intravenous injection of particles large enough to potentially clog the small arteries. Particles could be produced through manufacturing and packaging or even dispensing of the ph...

The paper examines the logic and semantics of knowledge attributions of the form “s knows whether A or B”. We analyze these constructions in an epistemic logic with alternative questions, and propose an account of the context-sensitivity of the corresponding sentences and of their presuppositions.

A terrorist defends an asset which grows from the first to the second period and is attacked. With large asset growth, the terrorist’s first period outcome is low caused by a large attack. With no expenditure constraint, the terrorist’s total outcome is positive. With equal attack and defense inefficiencies, when the terrorist as defender requires his first period outcome to be positive, the at...

this paper examines some of the results of the archaeological survey conducted in ardabil province in summer 2001. ardabil province is situated in northwest iran and in the neighborhood of of azerbaijan republic. the survey of the surrounding area gives an account of the different graves. the greaves are characterized by simple grave; megalithic graves with and without stele and kurgan mound. t...