1. We developed an innovative Integrated Supported Employment (ISE) service protocol, which amplifies the effect of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model by the addition of workrelated social skills training. 2. Participants in the ISE outperformed those in the IPS and traditional vocational rehabilitation (TVR) with respect to employment rate, job tenure, and some psychological outc...

abstract fixed dental prosthesis success requires appropriate impression taking of the prepared finish line. this is critical in either tooth supported fixed prosthesis (crown and bridge) or implant supported fixed prosthesis (solid abutment). if the prepared finish line is adjacent to the gingival sulcus, gingival retraction techniques should be used to decrease the marginal discrepancy among ...

This is part of a program devoted to the study of wavelets by making use of their Fourier transforms. We shall rst give a constructive characterization of all minimally-supported-frequencies(m.s.f.) wavelets. Then we use this to construct new m.s.f. wavelets, including ones that are not band-limited. We shall also provide a simple necessary and suucient condition for an m.s.f. wavelet to be ass...

Cochlear implant (CI) users are unable to receive masking release and the reasons are unclear. The present study examines the hypothesis that when listening to speech in fluctuating maskers, CI users cannot fuse the pieces of the message over temporal gaps because they are not able to perceive reliably the information carried by obstruent consonants (e.g., stops). To test this hypothesis, CI us...

OBJECTIVES The main aim of this review article is to discuss implant-supported overdentures (ISOs) as treatment in edentulous patients. Besides, we will try to discuss among the different treatment options in such patients and to analyze their validity when ISOs are compared with other clinical modalities. At the same time, we will try to suggest clinical guidelines supported by current clinica...

The movement to establish uniform standards for the identification of empirically supported treatments (EST) has contributed to an impressive growth in the number of treatments deemed to have strong evidence of their efficacy. Those treatments meeting the most rigorous standards are often granted the label well-established and have been identified in a variety of online and print formats. An im...

We have designed a new polycentric knee adopting a hydraulic unit and an intelligent mechanism. The biomechanical parameters of this prototype, such as the stance duration, peak knee flexion angle in stance and swing, peak hip flexion angle, and peak hip extension moments were analyzed at three different cadences (88, 96, 104 steps/min) in three amputees, and then compared to those of polycentr...

Since the first cochlear implants (CI) were fitted in children with congenital and acquired deafness at the ENT Department of the Medical University of Hannover, with follow-up rehabilitation at the Cochlear Implant Centre Hannover (CIC), we have gained over ten years of experience in this field. Today the operation is a standard procedure. To date CI surgery has been performed in Hannover on s...

The rehabilitation of patients with dental implant-supported restorations is an ideal treatment option in contemporary dentistry. aim this review was to compile and demonstrate the mechanical response during loading condition, on stress distributions prostheses. findings show that majority stresses were concentrated cervical region implant/abutment interface may can be affected by several clini...