A male glassworker, aged 19, who had previously been in good health developed severe occipital headache, made worse by movements of the head and by stooping. A fortnight later the headache had become bitemporal and gradually less severe so that he was able to return to work. During this initial period no abnormal signs appeared in the nervous system or elsewhere although the blood pressure was ...

The digitization of scanned forms and documents is changing the data sources that enterprises manage. To integrate these new data sources with enterprise data, the current state-of-the-art approach is to convert the images to ASCII text using optical character recognition (OCR) software and then to store the resulting ASCII text in a relational database. The OCR problem is challenging, and so t...

BACKGROUND As the voiding habits of Iranian children differs from other children because of some cultural and religious considerations, we aimed to establish normal reference values of urinary flow rates in Iranian children between 7 to 14 years of age. METHODS Eight hundred and two uroflowmetry studies were performed on children with no history of a renal, urological, psychological or neurol...

Music alignment is the association of events in a musical score with points in the time frames of an audio signal. So it is also called audio-score alignment. Until now, most polyphonic audio-score alignment methods are offline algorithms, and alignment accuracy drops significantly when using online algorithms. But most applications based on alignment need real-time results, such as Automatical...

Bu çal??mada Frans?z piyanist ve besteci Henri Jerome Bertini’nin, piyano e?itiminde kullan?lan, “25 Etudes Elementaires Op.137” adl? etüt kitab? incelenmi?tir. Nitel bir çal??ma olan bu ara?t?rmada betimsel ara?t?rma modeli kullan?lm?? literatür, döküman inceleme yoluyla taranm??t?r. Yap?lan incelemede, mesleki müzik e?itimi kurumlar?n?n müfredatlar?nda da yer verilen Bertini’nin etütlerine il...

nd yet I still had so much music in my head, " lamented Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) near the end of his life (1). The French composer was frustrated by symptoms of an undiagnosed neurologic disorder that interfered with his ability to move, speak, or express creative ideas. Now labeled primary progressive aphasia-related illness, the disorder also marked the life and art of Anne Adams. A native o...

Freedom Penultimate draft. Please cite only final version in The Routledge Companion to Phenomenology. Human freedom was Jean-Paul Sartre's central philosophical preoccupation throughout his career. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the cornerstone of his moral and political thought, Being and Nothingness, contains an extensive and subtle account of the metaphysical freedom that he consi...

The article by Hoos et al. (1) in this issue of the Journal makes three recommendations about endpoints in immunotherapy trials: 1) cellular immune response assays are highly variable and require standardization; 2) immunotherapies may evince unusual patterns of antitumor response and therefore require different endpoints; and 3) immunotherapy may have a delayed benefit on survival, which requi...

The need for an effective transition to practice program in nursing has been documented for more than 80 years (e.g., Townsend, 1931). Yet, comprehensive study of transition to practice in nursing did not begin until the 1970s. Marlene Kramer published her seminal work, Reality Shock, in which she proposed and assessed strategies to ameliorate that shock (Kramer, 1974). Patricia Benner also beg...