Introduction Within many diagnosis related group (DRG) systems, there is recognition that a single cost weight per DRG is not suitable, and that cost weights should take into account extremely lengthy hospital stays. Long lengths of stay are considered to be due to factors largely beyond the control of the hospital, and a single weight per DRG would potentially place hospitals under financial r...

This study investigates brain potentials to derived word forms in Spanish. Two experiments were performed on derived nominals that differ in terms of their productivity and semantic properties but are otherwise similar, an acceptability judgment task and a reading experiment using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) in which correctly and incorrectly formed derived words were presented in sen...

TRM Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland and Medtronic Europe, Tolochenaz, Switzerland; Centre de Recherche, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, 5400 boul. Gouin Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada H4J 1C5; Département de Physiologie Moléculaire et Intégrative, Institut de Génie Biomédical, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada H3T 1J4; TRM Foundation, Lausanne, Switzerland; Division of Cardiology,...

We have studied the clarifying activity of a purified peptide fraction of gametic origin in senile cataract of the dog. The active substance, administered intramuscularly, had significant and durable clarifying effects on the cortical area of the lens.