BACKGROUND Total knee replacement is an effective treatment for knee arthritis. While the majority of TKAs have demonstrated promising long-term results, up to 20 % of patients remain dissatisfied with the outcome of surgery at 1 year. Implant malalignment has been implicated as a contributing factor to less successful outcomes. Recent evidence has challenged the relationship between alignment ...

INTRODUCTION This study investigates the use of a commitment to change (CTC) instrument as an integral approach to continuing medical education (CME) planning, implementation, and evaluation and as a means of facilitating physician behavior change. METHODS Descriptive statistics and grounded theory methods were employed. Data were collected from 20 consecutive CME programs. Physicians were as...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE With the advent of laparoscopy into pediatric surgical filed and with experience gaining, as well as, improvement in instrumentation, it has been used in management of different conditions, including intussusception. However, there is no universal acceptance regarding its role in reduction of intussusception. This is due to the early reports of high conversion rate and ...

Research in automatic analysis of sign language has largely focused on recognizing the lexical (or citation) form of sign gestures as they appear in continuous signing, and developing algorithms that scale well to large vocabularies. However, successful recognition of lexical signs is not sufficient for a full understanding of sign language communication. Nonmanual signals and grammatical proce...

We investigate the changes in self-citation behavior of Italian professors following introduction a citation-based incentive scheme, for national accreditation to academic appointments. Previous contributions on have either focused small samples or relied simple models, not controlling enough confounding factors. The present work adopts complex statistics model implemented bibliometric individu...

librarians are frequently consulted about proper citation formats and support the use of pc-based personal bibliographic citation management programs, such as endnote, often used by faculty and graduate students. recently, free or inexpensive web-based tools have been developed that create citations and format bibliographies. an analysis of citations generated by these programs shows that they ...