Methods In a large midwestern hospital, group physical therapy is provided to joint replacement patients. Orthopedic surgeons added acupuncture to the standard post-operative care for total knee and hip replacements provided through the Joint Replacement Center (JRC). Acupuncture is introduced in the pre-hospital class for surgery preparation and provided immediately after physical therapy on p...

The objective of this research is to investigate whether there a significant effect using Google Classroom as blended learning media integrated with inference strategy toward students’ reading ability. design was quasi experiment. In design, two classes were used, experimental class and control class. instrument on test which aims measure comprehension. data in analyzed by SPSS v.20. It calcula...

We present a new weak law of large numbers for dependent heterogeneous triangular arrays fyn;tg with applications to tail trimming. The law follows from a new partial sum moment bound Ej Pn t=1 yn;tj p K Pn t=1 Ejyn;tj p for zero mean Lp-mixingale arrays fyn;t;=tg, p 2 [1; 2], where =t is a -…eld. We do not require uniform integrability, nor restrict mixingale dependence or heterogeneity. The w...

in the present study, the effect of tail fat on recovery times in intact sheep and sheep with a ligated median sacral artery following similar anesthetic exposure with isoflurane was investigated. this study was performed using seven healthy fat-tailed iranian lori-bakhtiyari ewe lambs. the lambs were anesthetized twice at two week intervals (the experiment was performed in two stages). after m...

In this paper, two Shewhart-type nonparametric control charts based on runs rules are developed for monitoring the changes in the process variability. The charts are based on two nonparametric tests for equality of variances. The performance of the proposed control charts is evaluated for the normal, light tailed and heavy tailed distributions through average run length using simulations.

Avian trichomonosis, caused by the flagellated protozoan parasite Trichomonas gallinae, has variable pathogenicity among bird species ranging from asymptomatic infections to severe disease periodically manifesting in epidemic mortality. Traditionally, columbids are identified as highly susceptible to infection with occasional spillover into raptors that prey on infected birds. We identified avi...

Behavioural ecologists have interpreted avian leks as products of sexual selection, in which males display socially to increase their opportunities to mate. However, without invoking reproductive queuing or kin selection, this paradigm does not necessarily explain why many males that fail to mate participate in leks. An alternative solution, that males also aggregate to reduce predation, has pr...

The Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) and Boat-tailed Grackle (Q. major) are sister species that have expanded their ranges during historical times. This expansion has created an area of sympatry between these species in Texas and Louisiana, and between distinctive Great-tailed Grackle subspecies in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. We investigated the evolutionary hi...

Cattle persistently infected (PI) with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a pestivirus in the family Flaviviridae, are an important source of viral transmission to susceptible hosts. Persistent BVDV infections have been identified in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the most abundant free-ranging ruminant in North America. As PI deer shed BVDV similarly to PI cattle, maintenance of ...