A simple unconstrained shoulder prosthesis has been used in 22 patients (25 shoulders) with incapacitating pain and severely damaged joints who, because of age or generalised rheumatoid disease, have limited functional requirements. All reported good and lasting pain relief. Improvement in range of movement was modest, but there was marked improvement in function. In this group of patients, rot...

Despite being the largest Indigenous Australian language, Kriol—an English-lexified creole spoken across the northern part of Australia—is still largely unexamined from an instrumental or phonological point of view. This hampers efforts to predict crosslinguistic difficulties experienced by Kriol speakers in English-language settings and crucially in predicting the difficulties that Kriol-speak...

During the first half of the 20th century there was a strong controversy over the route for removal of an intraocular foreign body (IOFB) lying in the posterior segment of the eye. In the early years the anterior route was substantially the method of choice (Barkan and Barkan, 1927; Verhoeff, 1932; Duggan, I933; Trevor-Roper, i944; and others). The posterior route had been advocated by Stieren ...

Massive degradation of natural resources, including forests, pastureland, and cropland, has been taking place in agriculturally unfavorable or marginal land areas of Asia and other parts of the Third World (Bhattari and Hamming 2001; Cropper and Griffiths 1994; Koop and Tole 1999; Rudel and Roper 1997). The growing rural population has increased demand for land, trees, and other natural resourc...

We propose to study the structure of the Roper resonance by a measurement of recoil proton polarization components in the p(~e, e′~ p)π0 reaction in Hall A. The components exhibit strong sensitivities to the pertinent resonant Roper multipoles M1− and S1−, and will be measured in a broad range of Q2 and W . The large kinematic coverage will allow us to attain a better overall understanding of t...

We investigate the structure of the nucleon resonance N∗(1440) (Roper) within a coupled-channel meson exchange model for pion-nucleon scattering. The coupling to ππN states is realized effectively by the coupling to the σN , π∆ and ρN channels. The interaction within and between these channels is derived from an effective Lagrangian based on a chirally symmetric Lagrangian, which is supplemente...