BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated factors associated with discontinuation of employment in patients with CFS/ME or quantified its impact on productivity. METHODS We used patient-level data from five NHS CFS/ME services during the period 01/04/2006-31/03/2010 collated in the UK CFS/ME National Outcomes Database. We used logistic regression to identify factors associated with discontinua...

This study investigated the effect of five speech processing parameters, currently employed in cochlear implant processors, on speech understanding. Experiment 1 examined speech recognition as a function of stimulation rate in six Med-E1/CIS-Link cochlear implant listeners. Results showed that higher stimulation rates (2100 pulses/s) produced a significantly higher performance on word and conso...

Control and analysis of protein aggregation is an increasing challenge to pharmaceutical research and development. Due to the nature of protein interactions, protein aggregation may occur at various points throughout the lifetime of a protein and may be of different quantity and quality such as size, shape, morphology. It is therefore important to understand the interactions, causes and analyse...

Richard Lennon recently returned from studies in Toronto at York University, from which he will soon receive his M.A. in Political Science. His research interests have focused on urban and regional planning, economics from a public policy perspective, and federal and provincial politics. He is currently employed as a data analyst/research associate for a Win-nipeg market research firm. Council ...

In the wheelchair propulsion literature, it is common to report upper-limb (UL) joint kinetics to express shoulder, elbow, and wrist loads. Choosing the appropriate kinetic resolution coordinate system (CS) for UL joint forces and moments has become a laboratory-specific process. The differences that arise during interpretation may hinder a clear and broad understanding of UL joint kinetics dur...

High income concentration and poverty in Brazil have been intensively studied by many researchers, suggesting that an obvious factor influencing unequal earnings in the country is the heterogeneous level of education in the labor force; for education can be understood as a mean to attain improvements in labor productivity and consequently in family income. The present study aims to construct a ...

Herbaceous weed control (HWC) is prescribed for growing season control of vegetative competition in hardwood afforestation attempts on former agricultural areas. Without HWC, planted seedlings often exhibit poor growth and survival. While currently employed HWC methods are proven, there is a substantial void in research comparing HWC treatments spanning multiple years. A total of 4,320 bare-roo...