The pain associated with OCL’s has been noted to be generalised and non-specific8, similar to the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Localised tenderness is frequently lacking3,5,15, although localised tenderness has been described, usually postero-medially or antero-laterally in accordance with the site of the lesions3,5,8. Nevertheless, these studies are of poor scientific quality with anecdotal rep...

INTRODUCTION Acute surgical abdomen is one of the most common emergency surgical causes all over the world and also one of the most important abdominal pain causes which is sometimes intolerable for the patients referring to the emergency departments. Diagnosis and planning for operation in these cases is based on time-demanding serial examinations and results of paraclinical data. In this wait...

N one of the historic creeds and confessions and none of today’s theologies stress adequately five critical points concerning the Spirit of God: the Spirit who was “not yet” before the Lord Jesus was glorified (John 7:39); the last Adam (the incarnate Christ) becoming a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b); the compound Spirit typified by the anointing ointment (Exo. 30:23-25); the Spirit of life...

Team spirit is often suggested as a counter-balancing power to free-riding. Testing for team spirit with field data is difficult, however, due to an inherent identification problem. In this paper we use experimental methods to identify team spirit against potential confounding factors. In a team work task we vary subjects’ information about relative team performance while we leave unchanged the...

Definitions that relate to each other are derived for Information and spirit. An experiment that seeks to stimulate the phonological store is described and the responses obtained analyzed, using a unique monitoring method based on variations in electrical permittivity when neurons fire. The importance of the non-sensory inputs to the sub-vocal rehearsal system in the phonological lop is mention...