• Increased consumer focus on sleep by education, regulation and patient selfawareness.7 Sleep medicine is a relatively new field that was officially recognized in the 1960s. Today, an estimated 50 million to 70 million Americans suffer from sleep-related problems.1 The first sleep disorder clinic was opened in 19702 at Stanford University by William Dement, MD. Today more than 2,000 sleep cent...

The widely used above-the-knee prosthesis is composed of a quadri­ lateral muscle-contour, wooden thigh socket, a knee mechanism, a wooden shank, a SACH foot, and a suitable pelvic suspension. This type of pros­ thesis has met with considerable success in most patients, but it is expensive and not all geriatric patients can wear it. A so-called temporary limb—a modified long brace with a leathe...

Meningitis is rarely seen following oral injury. We describe a 3-year-old boy developing meningitis and brain abscess following a penetrating oral wooden stick injury. There was no cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea noted. A cerebrospinal fluid culture yielded viridans streptococcus. Brain magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography revealed a multiloculated ring-enhancing mass. This patient...

Laser scanning methodology allows to reconstruct the metric characteristics of objects at different LOD (Level Of Detail) providing spatially dense points clouds. In particular, the terrestrial application carried out in the last years have demonstrated the potentialities of the methodology useful in many different sectors. This tecnique has been used also for the “Cavallo ligneo” of the “Palaz...

A disentanglement puzzle consists of mechanically interlinked pieces, and the puzzle is solved by disentangling one piece from another set of pieces. A string puzzle consists of strings entangled with one or more wooden pieces. We consider the generalized string puzzle problem whose input is the layout of strings and a wooden board with holes embedded in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space. We pr...

This research was designed to assess the effects of contemporary political humor on information processing and persuasion, focusing specifically on two competing processes: processing motivation/counterargument distraction and message discounting. In Study 1, 212 undergraduates read one of four monologues by political comedian Bill Maher. Correlations and path modeling suggested that, in genera...