BACKGROUND Nonoperative treatment avoids the complications after extensive surgery for idiopathic clubfeet. The purpose of this study was to compare retrospectively French physiotherapy and Ponseti method used to treat idiopathic clubfoot in 2 institutions. METHODS Two hundred nineteen idiopathic clubfeet (146 patients) managed during a 3-year period (2000 to 2003) were included in this study...

235 April 2010, Vol. 100, No. 4 SAMJ 236 Rugby is increasingly popular in South Africa, with World Cup success following resumption of the country’s international participation. New role models are continuously presented in the media, as a result of the numerous national and international tournaments. However, the risk of spinal column injury in rugby is perceived to be higher than in other spo...

The coelomocytes of Caenorhabditis elegans are scavenger cells that continuously and nonspecifically endocytose fluid from the pseudocoelom (body cavity). Green fluorescent protein (GFP) secreted into the pseudocoelom from body wall muscle cells is endocytosed and degraded by coelomocytes. We show that toxin-mediated ablation of coelomocytes results in viable animals that fail to endocytose pse...

Meta-analyses of randomized evidence may include published, unpublished, and updated data in an ongoing estimation process that continuously accommodates more data. Synthesis may be performed either with group data or with meta-analysis of individual patient data (MIPD). Although MIPD with updated data is considered the gold standard of evidence, there is a need for a careful study of the impac...

Systems that warrant a sustained collection, analysis and retrieval of building information are essential to maintain a smooth and steady flow of information across the diversity of actors throughout building lifecycle phases. Benefits of using Building Information Management (BIM) tools for this purpose will not be fully realized unless the facility management and operation (FM&O) activities a...

This study examines the labor market effects of influx Syrian refugees in Turkey. Engle-Granger and Johansen co-integration tests, followed by autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) bounds tests reveal that Turkish unemployment refugee series are co-integrated; pointing out to a long-run relationship. Short-run dynamics have been analyzed from fitted ARDL model error-correction parameter is use...

Most research about compartmental models of infection disease often consider the transmission rate as a constant, which is not ideal for dynamic surveillance infectious diseases. This study fully utilized continuously updated real-time epidemiological data and proposed SEAIUHR model incorporating asymptomatic symptomatic infectiousness, reported unreported cases, inpatient non-inpatient vaccine...

Poly (propylene fumarate) (PPF), a linear unsaturated polyester consisting of alternating propylene glycol and fumaric acid units, can be cured in vivo to fill the skeletal defects with minimal surgical intervention. Many different methods have been reported for synthesizing PPF, but none of them gives a clear method. The present paper introduces two new methods in PPF synthesis: Modified reflu...

Mutations in MCOLN1, which encodes the cation channel protein TRPML1, result in the neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder Mucolipidosis type IV. Mucolipidosis type IV patients show lysosomal dysfunction in many tissues and neuronal cell death. The ortholog of TRPML1 in Caenorhabditis elegans is CUP-5; loss of CUP-5 results in lysosomal dysfunction in many tissues and death of developing ...

In this paper, we investigate the structural and electronic properties of zigzag silicene nanoribbons (ZSiNRs) with edge-chemistry modified by H, F, OH, and O, using the ab initio density functional theory method and local spin-density approximation. Three kinds of spin polarized configurations are considered: nonspin polarization (NM), ferromagnetic spin coupling for all electrons (FM), ferrom...