Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) were introduced in the 1980s as legal instruments for psychiatric patients to retain some choice over their own mental health treatment during periods of decisional incapacity. However, PADs are nested in larger structures of mental health law and policy that protect the interests of parties other than the patient, and which, in situations of conflict invol...

As noted by Della Sala and Grafman in their Editorial, the traditional peerreview process has many drawbacks. In this comment, we would like to emphasize one particular problem of peer review, namely how reviewers handle findings that are incompatible with their own viewpoints. Speculating as to why it took several years before his ideas on the architecture of human memory were accepted by cogn...

in this paper effects of fractured sleepers on rail track vibration under moving wheelset have been investigated. two parallel rails of the track have been modeled as euler-bernoulli beams on elastic points as rail pads. also sleepers have been modeled as visco-elastic euler-bernoulli beams. it is assumed that, some sleepers under the rail track have been fractured and modeled by two beams. the...

Steven A. Webber, MBChB; Steven E. Lipshultz, MD; Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD; Minmin Lu, MS; James D. Wilkinson, MD; Linda J. Addonizio, MD; Charles E. Canter, MD; Steven D. Colan, MD; Melanie D. Everitt, MD; John Lynn Jefferies, MD; Paul F. Kantor, MD; Jacqueline M. Lamour, MD; Renee Margossian, MD; Elfriede Pahl, MD; Paolo G. Rusconi, MD; Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD; on behalf of the Pediatric Cardiomyop...

S. C. Forbes, L. T. Bish, M. M. Sleeper, W. Mai, H. Sweeney, and G. A. Walter Department of Physical Therapy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Department of clinical studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Philadelphia, PA, Department...

BACKGROUND Foam pads are increasingly used on force platforms during balance assessments in order to produce increased instability thereby permitting the measurement of enhanced posturographic parameters. A variety of foam pads providing different material properties have thus been used, although it is still unclear which characteristics produce the most effective and reliable tests. Furthermor...