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This introduction to the Special Section of History of Psychology argues for greater attention to psychological research on sex in the decades before the publication of the Kinsey volumes. Drawing on scholarship by Adele Clarke, Donna Haraway and Wade Pickren, this introduction argues for the centrality of the psychological research projects funded by the Committee for Research on Problems of S...

Background Research has investigated the motivators and deterrents which influence medical practitioners and nurses to consider rural placements within Australia; there is a scarcity in podiatry. The authors received funding from the North Queensland Regional Training Network (NQRTN) to investigate the views of podiatrists working in northern Australia, podiatry students and placement co-ordina...

an affected limb, we propose that it would be wiser to define the condition strictly in terms of the symptoms that are evident. For example, in the case referred to by Chahine et al., the diagnosis would be ‘‘painful lower limb edema with evidence of hyperalgesia, cause unknown, CRPS-like.’’ At this stage, and in cases such as that referred to here, more cases should be accumulated and thorough...

In modern anaesthesia practice, regional techniques are preferred to general anaesthesia for many types of surgery, particularly in obstetric care. Improved outcomes have been recorded in UK practice, but the techniques remain underutilised in many parts of the world. With encouragement, training and a regular supply of appropriate needles and local anaesthetic agents, the advantages of regiona...

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronically painful and disabling disorder. However, no data are available even on the epidemiology of CRPS in Korea. This study was undertaken to retrospectively assess the epidemiologic characteristics of CRPS in 150 consecutive patients at a tertiary chronic pain center from March 2002 to February 2006. Information was obtained regarding patients' d...

– Objective: To “track” the return of the best possible constant percentage allocation of wealth (a.k.a. constant rebalanced portfolio (CRP)) chosen with knowledge of future asset returns – Algorithm: Return-weighted average of all CRPs – Main Assumptions: No statistical assumptions are made on asset returns; asymptotic analysis, however, requires several sequence-based assumptions on asset ret...

BACKGROUND More than 50% of multiple sclerosis patients experience chronic pain syndrome. We set out to determine the specific type of chronic pain that was seen in our multiple sclerosis patients. METHODS Patients with multiple sclerosis were catalogued between January 2002 and April 2006 and identified by a search of the database. Only MS patients that met the 2005 revised McDonald criteria...