Repair of the rotator cuff requires secure reattachment, but large chronic defects cause osteoporosis of the greater tuberosity which may then have insufficient strength to allow proper fixation of the tendon. Recently, suture anchors have been introduced, but have not been fully evaluated. We have investigated the strength of suture-to-anchor attachment, and the use of suture anchors in repair...

We present an analysis of speech error repairs aimed at establishing whether prosodic differences between ‘interrupted’ and ‘completed’ error repairs found in elicited data [8] are observed in a corpus of Dutch spontaneous speech. It has been assumed that the interrupted–completed distinction is associated with the coordination of preand postarticulatory self-monitoring processes; we explore th...

This paper compares, using our Japanese data, word repetitions with error repairs in terms of their temporal structures in order to examine whether or not the prolongation of first tokens in word repetitions, observed by Den and Clark (2000), is really an effect of the speaker’s strategy. Analyses of 10 task-oriented Japanese dialogues reveal a difference between word repetitions and error repa...

The paper presents a declarative semantics for the maintenance of integrity constraints expressed by means of production rules. A production rule is a special form of active rule, called active integrity constraint, whose body contains an integrity constraint (conjunction of literals which must be false) and whose head contains a disjunction of update atoms, i.e. actions to be performed if the ...

BACKGROUND Direct muscle belly trauma is common. Selecting optimal methods for surgical repair of muscle disruption is difficult because reliable methods have not been established. Suturing tendon offers strong repairs, but epimysium and perimysium, the connective tissues that coalesce to form tendons, offer unknown repair strength. The purpose of this study was to compare biomechanical propert...

When otologic procedures that involve tympanic membrane repairs are performed, biomaterials or biological tissues as normal as grafts are used. At the moment, biological material from the own patient is used with varying success rates. The procedure used and the patient's tissue repair capabilities tend to determine the outcome. We present a preliminary study on tympanic membrane perforation re...

OBJECTIVE The need for stapling is a relative drawback of laparoscopic hernia repairs because it adds to the complications and costs. The safety of unstapled repairs as a viable alternative lacks validation, due to the dearth of analogous comparative trials. METHODS Patients were randomized to undergo either stapled or unstapled total extraperitoneal hernia repairs. The groups were matched fo...