background: chronic non-specific low back pain is a common disorder that often has no clear mechanism. exercise therapy is an effective and safe method for treatment of chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as back pain. pilate’s and williams’ exercises are two types of distinct exercises used for the treatment of back pain, but there is no evidence for the advantage of these two exercises in ...

About 10 years ago the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) recognized the need for an applied informatics journal for the health sciences. In response to this need, the journal Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) was launched in 2009 as a companion journal to Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM), both published by Schattauer (since January 1, 2017 part of Thieme), with the i...

Each year I take great pleasure in reporting on the accomplishments of our P&T committee at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. I am especially proud of the activities of the medication quality subcommittee, which I have chaired for more than a decade. I’d like to summarize our progress in fiscal year 2010, specifically in regard to adverse drug event prevention and surveillance, medication u...

spring back is responsible for inaccuracy of press formed sheet product. therefore, prediction of spring back is important for precise forming of stampings. to predict the amount of spring back many successful attempts have been made for simple cases such as single curved and u or v shape sheet metals. however, for more complex shapes containing double curves or double variable curved surfaces ...