PURPOSE To compare effects of kinesio taping with sham taping at the end of 3 consecutive taping periods in knee osteoarthritis. METHODS 41 patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis according to American College of Rheumatology were randomized to receive either KT or sham taping. Baseline evaluations included a visual analog scale (VAS) for activity and nocturnal pain, Lequesne index for fu...

But at other moments, the classroom is so lifeless or painful or confused—and I am so powerless to do anything about it—that my claim to be a teacher seems a transparent sham. Then the enemy is everywhere: in those students from some alien planet, in that subject I thought I knew, and in the personal pathology that keeps me earning my living this way. What a fool I was to imagine that I had mas...

SECTION 1001 of the Criminal Code provides criminal sanctions against persons who deal fraudulently with government agencies.1 Although the origin of the statute dates from 1863,2 only recently have Government attorneys made frequent use of its provisions. In United States v. Diogo, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit supplemented the increasing body of judicial interpretation of sectio...

We study the symmetry property of extremal functions to a family of weighted Sobolev inequalities due to Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg. By using the moving plane method, we prove that all non-radial extremal functions are axially symmetric with respect to a line passing through the origin.