BACKGROUND Medically unexplained physical symptoms present one of the most common problems in modern medical practice but often prove difficult to manage. The central position of the GP in the care of patients with medically unexplained symptoms has been emphasized repeatedly, but little is known about the attitudes of GPs to this role. Understanding how GPs view these patients may inform the d...

The relationships between the stimulation frequency and the force developed by motor units (MUs) of the medial gastrocnemius muscle were compared between intact rats and animals after total transection or hemisection of the spinal cord at the low thoracic level. The experiments on functionally isolated MUs were carried out 14, 30, 90, and 180 days after the spinal cord injury. Axons of investig...

Parallelization is a natural direction towards the improvements in the scalability of algorithms for the computation of Minimally Unsatisfiable Subformulas (MUSes), and group-MUSes, of CNF formulas. In this paper we propose and analyze a number of approaches to parallel MUS computation. Just as it is the case with the parallel CDCL-based SAT solving, the communication, i.e. the exchange of lear...

The goal of this study was to assess the effect of the different habitats on rodent diversity, and to estimate the effect of changes in land use on the rodent abundance through different possible scenarios. We sampled poultry farms, human houses, riparian habitats, railway embankments, woodlots, pasture, crop fields and their borders. The habitats with highest frequency of captures were poultry...

BACKGROUND Much of a General Practitioner's (GP) workload consists of managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). GP trainees are often taking responsibility for looking after people with MUS for the first time and so are well placed to reflect on this and the preparation they have had for it; their views have not been documented in detail in the literature. This study aimed to...

PURPOSE Despite reports of persistent stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in patients after the midurethral sling (MUS) procedure, there is no widely accepted definition or cause of the condition. In many cases, the mesh implanted in the previous MUS procedure has been found to have migrated proximally. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the modified distal urethral polypropyle...

25 The underlying neurophysiology of postural control of the lower back in humans is 26 poorly understood. We have characterized motor unit (MU) discharge activity in the 27 deep lumbar multifidus (LM) muscle in 9 healthy subjects (20–40 years, 3 females). 28 Bilateral fine wire electrodes were implanted at L4 spinal level using ultrasound 29 guidance. EMG was recorded during spontaneous sittin...

Muscle ultrasound (MUS) is increasingly used by neurologists, neuropediatricians, neurosurgeons, specialized radiologists and anaesthesiologists for the imaging-supported diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders. Especially, MUS highly sensitive in detecting fasciculations motor neuron diseases, revealing intensive care unit acquired weakness. Hereditary inflammatory myopathies are associated with ...

Minimal explanations of infeasibility are of great interest in many domains. In propositional logic, these are referred to as Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets (MUSes). An unsatisfiable formula can have multiple MUSes, some of which provide more insights than others. Different criteria can be considered in order to identify a good minimal explanation. Among these, the size of an MUS is arguably one...

13 Available online xxxx 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 PR OO In the practice of auditing, for cost concerns, auditors verify only a sample of accounts to estimate the error of the total population of accounts. The most common statistical method to select an audit sample is by monetary unit sampling (MUS). However, common MUS estimation practice does not explicitly recognize the multiple distrib...