BACKGROUND Several authors have postulated that cervical instability is a major cause of traumatic spinal pain. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this prospective case series study (n = 6) was to determine if proliferant injections have an effect on cervical translation as measured by a blinded reader. DESIGN This study was a prospective case series. Study participants were selected from patients se...

Case-control association studies are a widely used study design in genetic epidemiology. Under this method allele and/or genotype frequencies at a genetic marker are compared between cases and controls. Association studies are thought to be well suited for identifying genetic variation underlying complex traits, such as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. However, this study design is ...

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In order to examine the frames of reference used for the planning of inter- and intra-word saccades, subjects were required to execute a two-saccade sequence toward one or two words. The first saccade was visually guided while the second saccade was visually or memory-guided. Results demonstrate that readers hold an internal representation of the target word in at least two different reference ...

With the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy, England’s primary school teachers were asked to replace ‘‘listening to children read’’–a practice deeply embedded in UK pedagogy–with guided reading, a practice focused on interpretive and critical comprehension rather than accuracy and fluency. This smallscale research project addresses the perceptions of the author’s Primary B.Ed. stude...