Marginal urban areas already subject to unequal distribution of welfare facilities and socioeconomic opportunities were badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Taking from a spatial justice perspective, this paper looks at Milan Rio de Janeiro, two very differentand yet similar cities concerning their disadvantaged communities, focusing on impacts virus, consequent bottom-up mobilizations collectiv...

Materials and Methods: fifteen patients (10 men and 5 women with 42.53 years) on their dominant arm participated in this study. Outcome measures were wrist extension and grip strength and pain taken before and immediately after application of tape. The unaffected arm served as a control. Used of hand-held dynamometer and jammar dynamometer for evaluated of wrist extension and grip strength. Als...

This study reports the first experimental exploration of possible contagious yawning in monkeys. Twenty-two stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides) were presented with video clips of either yawns or control mouth movements by conspecifics. At a group level, monkeys yawned significantly more often during and just after the yawn tape than the control tape. Supplementary analysis revealed that the y...

The Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital-Civic Campus, Ottawa, Ontario Correspondence and reprints: Dr Michael SG Bell, 402-1919 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 1A2. Telephone 613-739-5424, fax 613-739-7168, e-mail [email protected] When suturing thin skin under significant tension one runs a high risk of somewhat delayed wound healing and increased scar...

A multi-channel Optical Head has been developed to be incorporated with an Optical Tape Drive that enables greater than 1TB capacity and greater than 25 MB/s data transfer rate on a 0.5 mil thick, 0.5 inch wide optical tape that fits in a 3480 style cartridge. The optical design has been optimized to perform at 532 nm with maximum through put in the write path. With use of a 0.6 NA objective le...

The Tension-free Vaginal Tape (TVT) procedure is a wellestablished surgical procedure for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. The operation, described by Ulmsten in 1996, which is based on a mid-urethral Prolene tape support, is accepted worldwide as an easy-to-learn, effective and safe surgical technique.1-5 Some typical TVT operative complications of concern to the operating ...

living in satisfying urban environments is important for an individual’s well-being. in order to create such environments, planners, designers, and policy makers need to understand the structures that cause residents to feel satisfied with their environments. this paper focuses on the perceived quality of urban residential environments: dwellings and neighborhoods. first, literature review was ...

hydatidosis is a parasitic disease in all over the world which is caused by a cestode (tape worm). liver, lung, and brain are the most common involved organs and involvement of muscles and bones is unusual. we report a 32years old man who had low back and radicular leg pain. he had a paravertebral mass with involvement of spinal column. this patient was operated with differential diagnosis of t...