Stress fractures are caused by repetitive microtraumas that occur during unusual or increased activities. Clinical suspicion is essential for the diagnosis. A twenty-years old soldier was presented with bilateral knee pain and restriction of knee movements after a period of training for ceremonial march. Although plain X-rays were normal, scintigraphy and MRI revealed stress fractures at metaph...

tral synapses. Prog Neurobiol 62:159–196 Treves A, Rolls ET (1994) A computational analysis of the role of the hippocampus in memory. Hippocampus 4:373–391 Tsodyks M, Markram H (1997) The neural code between neocortical pyramidal neurons depends on the transmitter release probability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:719–723 Tsodyks M, Uziel A, Markram H (2000) Synchrony generation in recurrent netw...

Abstract Chinese Communist Party ideologues and a number of prominent legal scholars have become outspoken about the global significance thought. The question is, however, whether ambitious statements importance thought are supported by theoretical arguments, which could be influential abroad. This article examines interaction between domestic stages speech through tools rhetorical theory. Argu...

Jade culture in ancient China is a significant branch of traditional Chinese culture. With a long history and abundant contents, the profound jade culture occupies an important position in world civilization history. The essay illustrates Chinese jade culture as an independent and complete system through the textual research and analysis of cultural relics and historical data. Under the constan...

We examine the antecedents and consequences of creating a national stock exchange among developing countries, a core technology of financial globalization. We study local conditions and global institutional pressures in the rapid spread of exchanges since the 1980s, and examine how conditions at the point of adoption affected their subsequent vibrancy. Little prior research connects the process...

The idea of inhaling smoke from cigarettes is historically new, actually less than a century old. Consumption of tobacco has changed from chewing tobacco and pipe smoking to smoking cigarettes; smokeless tobaccos are growing tremendously in popularity. The modern smoker is confronted with a highly engineered, complex composite of specially designed paper, tobacco, tobacco additives, and a panop...

The Society of Apothecaries is both a City livery company and an examining authority for the medical profession. Founded in 1617 by the royal apothecary Gideon de Laune leading a breakaway group from the Grocers' Company, the Society was instrumental in raising the status of apothecaries as general practitioners. Under the Apothecaries' Act (1815) the Society examined for the LSA and it now awa...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the flow through the Jonangu channel which is used for ceremonial game called as ‘Kyokusui-no-En’ in Japanese. The geometry of the channel is measured, a visualization technique is used to measure the actual flow characteristics, and then a numerical flow model is used to represent the flow including unsteady flow characteristic...

bronze handle, believed at 3astet holding that time to be the handle of ,t of Mrs. Mary a menyet, another ceremonial Draper, I9I5 object, but it is obvious now that it belonged to an aegis instead, and undoubtedly to an aegis of Isis, since it is she who is represented in the decoration on its upper part. The counterpoise is almost identical in shape and decoration with the one at the back of t...

The Thirteen Towers of Chankillo run north to south along a low ridge within a fourth-century B.C.E. ceremonial complex in north coastal Peru. From evident observing points within the adjacent buildings to the west and east, they formed an artificial toothed horizon that spanned-almost exactly-the annual rising and setting arcs of the Sun. The Chankillo towers thus provide evidence of early sol...