An emerging trend is what has become commonly known as 'Medical Tourism' where patients travel to overseas destinations for specialised surgical treatments and other forms of medical care. With the rise of more affordable cross-border travel and rapid technological developments these movements are becoming more commonplace. A key driver is the platform provided by the internet for gaining acces...

PURPOSE To describe the technique of limbal stem cell-sparing corneoscleroplasty for the management of advanced keratoglobus. METHODS A patient with bilateral advanced keratoglobus, with best-corrected visual acuity of 20/400 in the right eye and 20/200 in the left eye, underwent limbal stem cell-sparing corneoscleroplasty of the right eye. Initially, a 360-degree limbal incision with 200-μm ...

2013;26(1) S Afr J Clin Nutr Wiles NL, PhD, RD(SA) Lecturer, Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of KwaZulu-Natal Green JM, PhD Senior Research Associate, Rural Resource Management, University of KwaZulu-Natal Veldman FJ, PhD Associate Professor, Dietetics and Human Nutrition, University of KwaZulu-Natal Correspondence to: Nicky Wiles, e-mail: [email protected]

Objective. The Tuck Jump Assessment (TJA), a clinical plyometric assessment, identifies 10 jumping and landing technique flaws. The study objective was to investigate TJA interrater and intrarater reliability with raters of different educational and clinical backgrounds. Methods. 40 participants were video recorded performing the TJA using published protocol and instructions. Five raters of var...

* NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. Ivan Png thanks the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, for warmly hosting a visit during which this study began. We thank Jim Pooley, Lu Yi Davin Chor, Lee Fleming, Paul Wolfson as well as other NUS and Dartmouth colleagues, and audiences at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, the NBER Productivity Lunch, DR...

A n otherwise healthy 47-year-old man reported a history of right shoulder pain subsequent to an injury he sustained several months earlier while boating. The patient recalled trying to lift a heavy object out of the water when his right arm was forcibly externally rotated. The patient related that his arm was sore for several days after the injury, but his pain receded and became manageable. H...

In this paper, the initial value problem for a structure floating on the surface of the sea is investigated under the assumptions of linear theory. Fourier transforms are used to connect the timeand frequency-domain representations of the coupled motion of the fluid and body. This allows the large-time asymptotics of the motion to be obtained from the singularity structure of the frequency-doma...

This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world’s population? We consider the role of population and economic resources in determining medal totals from 1960-1996. We also provide out of sample predictions for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. ∗100 Tuc...

Research Fellow, School of Management, Boston University (e-mail: [email protected]). Marc Vanhuele is Associate Professor of Marketing, HEC Paris (e-mail: [email protected]). Koen Pauwels is Associate Professor of Marketing, Özyeğin University, Istanbul (e-mail: koen.pauwels@ozyegin. edu.tr). The authors thank Kantar Worldpanel France for providing the data used in this article and the Marketing Sci...

Rejuvenation procedures, especially facelift are nowadays common type of cosmetic surgery. According to the statistical data, facelifts were the seventh most popular aesthetic surgery performed after liposuction, breast augmentation, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), breast reduction and rhinoplasty. The most common complication after surgery is bleeding. Less common...