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objectives: knee osteoarthritis (oa) is a leading cause of disability in older adults. in current study, the effects of three types of orthoses on pain reduction were evaluated in oa patients in iran. methods & materials: in this prospective clinical trial, thirty six patients consisting of 11 men and 25 women with age (mean±sd) of 54.56±2.82 years and diagnosis of mild to moderate knee oa incl...

PURPOSE Infantile esotropia is associated with abnormal visual development and thus may delay the achievement of developmental milestones. Although early surgery can improve visual function, less is known about its effect on motor development. Here we address whether early surgery can improve motor development. METHODS Recently, our lab devised the Infant Developmental Skills Survey, a 25-ite...

This study addressed the problems of our previous study [5] and investigated the perceptual effect of F0 peak-delay on L1 / L2 perception of English lexical stress. A trisyllabic English nonsense word ‘ninini’ /nInInI/ whose F0 was set to reach its peak around the second syllable was embedded in a frame sentence and used as the stimulus of the perceptual experiment. Native English and Japanese ...

Delayed ovulation and delayed fertilization can lead to reduced developmental competence of the oocyte. In contrast to the consequences of postovulatory aging of the oocyte, hardly anything is known about the molecular processes occurring during oocyte maturation if ovulation is delayed (preovulatory aging). We investigated several aspects of oocyte maturation in two models of preovulatory agin...

A laser pulse propagating through the atmosphere self-focuses due to the nonlinear index of refraction modifications from the instantaneous electronic and delayed rotational responses of the air molecules. If the pulse power is sufficient, the focused pulse intensity can surpass the ionization threshold, resulting in a plasma filament. The balance between defocusing due to plasma refraction and...

•Osteobiologics are a group of synthetic and naturally derived substances used to support the bone repair. While most bones heal uneventfully with suitable operative or non-operative treatment, healing may be complicated by loss alignment, delayed union, nonunion. The appropriate use osteobiologics stimulate mitigate these complications. In this review, we evaluate when osteobiologics, what cur...