S U M M A R Y — Th i s s tudy quantif ies the m a i o r e lect ron m i c r o s c o p i c changes in l imb muscle b iops ies f r o m 31 out of 34 pat ients wi th the s y n d r o m e of ch ron ic p rogress ive external oph tha lmopleg ia . Pat ients w e r e d iv ided into three cl inical g r o u p s — A ) 10 sporad ic cases wi th musc l e weakness o n l y ; B ) 9 familial cases w i t h musc le we...

Ocular myasthenia in Graves’ disease is very rare with less than 10 cases reported. We present a clinically euthyroid lady with features of thyroid associated opthalmopathy (TAO) who had mild ptosis, external opthalmoplegia, firm goiter and subclinical hyperthyroidism. Hertel exopthalmometry confirmed exopthalmos. CT orbit revealed thickening of bilateral inferior, medial and superior recti. An...

Data distributions can be represented using different external representations, such as histograms and boxplots. Although the role of external representations has been extensively studied in mathematics, this is less the case in statistics. This study helps to fill this gap by systematically varying the representation that accompanies a task between participants, and assessing how university st...

It is well known that resonance can be induced by external noise or diversity. Here we show that resonance can be induced even by a phase disorder in coupled excitable neurons with subthreshold activity. In contrast to the case of identical phase, we find that phase disorder plays an active role in enhancing neuronal activity. We also uncover that the presence of phase disorder can induce a dou...

Abstract The notion of strong external difference family (SEDF) in a finite abelian group (G,+) is raised by M. B. Paterson and D. R. Stinson [5] in 2016 and motivated by its application in communication theory to construct R-optimal regular algebraic manipulation detection code. A series of (n,m, k, λ)-SEDF’s have been constructed in [5, 4, 2, 1] with m = 2. In this note we present an example ...

This paper investigates the implications of external indebtedness and international …nancial integration on the e¤ects of foreign interest rate shocks in a small-open economy. The theoretical component of the analysis develops a business cycle model that can successfully match the impulse responses of the Turkish economy to U.S. interest rate shocks. It is found in the context of this model tha...

Many obstetricians in this country are still not in favour of external cephalic version (ECy). This is despite the various studies in recent years that have shown its effectiveness in reducing the incidence of vaginal breech delivery and Caesarean section for breech presentation1,2,3,4,5. This study is a prospective observational study on the outcome of 80 cases of external cephalic version at ...

INTRODUCTION The quality of first-responder performance at the end of automated external defibrillator (AED) training may not predict the performance adequately during a real resuscitation attempt. METHODS Between January and December 2000, we evaluated 67 resuscitation attempts in Amsterdam and surroundings, where police officers used an AED. We compared their performance with their assessme...