New policies have been implemented at radio station WSND in response to the controversy arising from last September’s broadcast of the “ Radio Free Notre Dame ” program. WSND’s general manager Jim O’Brien worked with the ad m in is tra tio n to insure that a repeat of this incident could not occur. “ Things are working out well now and relations with the administration couldn’t be too much bett...

Objective To assess how well the LACE index and its constituent elements predict 30-day hospital readmission, and to determine whether other combinations of clinical or sociodemographic variables may enhance prognostic capability. Design Retrospective cohort study with split sample design for model validation. Setting One large hospital Trust in the West Midlands. Participants All alive-dischar...

BACKGROUND The use of external ankle support is widespread throughout sports medicine. However, the application of ankle bracing to a healthy ankle over a long period has been scrutinised because of possible neuromuscular adaptations resulting in diminished dynamic support offered by the peroneus longus. OBJECTIVE To investigate the immediate and chronic effects of ankle brace application on ...

BACKGROUND Hospital readmissions are serious and costly events, and readmission rates are considered to be an indicator of quality in health care management. Several models to identify patients at risk of unplanned readmissions have been developed in Western countries, but little is known about their performance in other countries. This paper reports the possible utility of one such model devel...

PURPOSE To evaluate in a pilot study the safety and efficacy of liposomal doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and etoposide (LACE) when combined with antiretroviral therapy (ART) in patients with AIDS-related lymphoma (ARL). The impact of HIV viral control on therapy and survival was also assessed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Between 1994 and 2005, 40 patients at Virginia Mason Medical Center were diagno...

objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the dental movements of the labial segment and the canines during leveling and alignment using pre-adjusted appliances and light forces with the mbt technique. the effect of lacebacks on the horizontal movement of the first molars was also assessed. materials and methods: fourteen patients with a mean age of 14.08 years were selected for this...

The lace-bug genus Pseudophatnoma was described for P. corniculata from the Riau Archipelago in Indonesia, and because of its morphological characteristics the genus was placed in the subfamily Cantacaderinae of the family Tingidae (Blöte 1945).

A powerful tool for the study of self-avoiding walks is the lace expansion of Brydges and Spencer [BS]. It is applicable above four dimensions and shows the mean-field behavior of self-avoiding walks, that is, critical exponents are those of the simple random walk. An extensive survey of random walks can be found in [MS]. The lace expansion was originally introduced for weakly self-avoiding wal...