background: laparoscopic gastric plication (lgp) is a technique in the restrictive category of bariatric procedures that reduces the gastric volume. nausea and vomiting are the most common complications after this procedure. the goal of this research is to determine the preventive effective dose of promethazine on postoperative nausea and vomiting after laparascopic gastric placation methods: a...

Purpose Intraocular medulloepithelioma (IM), the second most common primary neuroepithelial tumor of the eye, can lead to blindness in the affected eye and in rare cases, is deadly. Intraocular medulloepithelioma lacks targetable biomarkers for potential pharmacologic therapy. The purpose of this study was to identify actionable, tumor-specific proteins for potential diagnostic or therapeutic s...

I develop a new method to estimate intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment on U.S. census data spanning 19402000. I measure IM directly for children still living with parents at ages 26-29, and indirectly for other children using an imputation procedure that I validate in multiple datasets spanning the full sample period. Educational IM increased significantly 1940-1970 and de...

Selecting an appropriate ground motion intensity measure (IM) to estimate the aleatory uncertainty produced by variability is first and crucial step in fragility analysis. The choice of IM influenced not only structural system type itself but also limit state damage. In this study, investigation selection analysis with respect different states developed for a 48-story mega-scale steel frame str...

C often decry an earnings-focused short-term orientation of management that eschews spending on risky, long-term projects such as innovation to boost a firm’s stock price. Such critics assume that stock markets react positively to announcements of immediate earnings but negatively to announcements of investments in innovation that have an uncertain long-term pay off. Contrary to this position, ...

Current studies lack probabilistic evaluations on the performance of fault-crossing bridges. This paper conducts seismic fragility analyses to evaluate cable-stayed bridges with effects fault ruptures. Synthetic across-fault ground motions are generated using existing simulation methods for low-frequency pulses and high-frequency residuals. Incremental dynamic analysis is utilized generate resp...

The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of the Interactive Metronome (IM) in improving cognitive and motor performance in healthy older adults. As the aging adult population continues to rise, it is important to explore tools which can support this population to live as independently as possible for as long as possible. Literature indicates there is a natural decline in cogni...