BACKGROUND Awake flexible fiberoptic intubation (FFI) is the gold standard for management of anticipated difficult tracheal intubation. The purpose of this study was to compare awake FFI to awake McGrath® video laryngoscope, (MVL), (Aircraft Medical, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) intubation in patients with an anticipated difficult intubation. The authors examined the hypothesis that MVL...

Recent findings have provided growing evidence in support of process-genre-oriented writing pedagogy. However, these types approaches tended to place form-focused instruction (FFI) the background, particularly explicit teaching grammar (i.e., isolated FFI). As such, limited improvement accuracy was reported by recent studies. It is, therefore, important look into how FFI might further improve t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of foot orthoses using the foot function index (FFI) in a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) during a period of 6 months. METHODS Thirty-six rheumatoid subjects with foot pain were examined and appropriate foot orthoses were prescribed according to each patient's needs. All the patients were evaluated 30, 90 and 180 days after the baseline...

Using relativizations of results of Goncharov and Peretyat'kin on decidable homogeneous models, we prove that if M is S-saturated for some Scott set S, and F is an enumeration of S, then M has a presentation recursive in F. Applying this result we are able to classify degrees coding (i) the reducts of models of PA to addition or multiplication, (ii) internally finite initial segments and (iii) ...

We read with interest that Wanschitz and colleagues found a substantial increase in tryptophan hydroxylase-immunoreactive neurons in the pons (superior central nucleus) and medulla (raphe obscurus nucleus) of fatal familial insomnia (FFI) patients, suggesting that a serotoninergic system impairment represents the functional substrate of some typical FFI symptoms. We report the lumbar cerebrospi...

Timing of blunt force trauma in human bone is a critical forensic issue, but there is limited knowledge on how different environmental conditions, the duration of postmortem interval (PMI), different bone types and different animal models influence fracture morphology. This study aims at evaluating the influence of the type of postmortem environment and the duration of the postmortem period on ...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine whether foot function is associated with balance, falls, fear falls in community-dwelling older adults. Materials and Methods: A total 47 adults (13 women, 34 men) residing Denizli were included.Foot functions, falling dynamic balance fall risk evaluated by the Foot Function Index (FFI), Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I), Timed Up Go test...

This study investigates how different form-focused instruction (FFI) timing impacts English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ grammar development. A total of 169 Chinese middle school learners were assigned to four conditions randomly: control, before-isolated FFI, integrated and after-isolated FFI. The three experimental groups received treatments which combined form meaning with the passi...

PURPOSE To evaluate the validity and reliability of the Foot Function Index (FFI) in its Brazilian Portuguese version. METHODS The validity and reliability of the FFI were tested in 50 volunteers, with plantar fasciitis, metatarsalgia and chronic ankle sprain. The FFI validity process used the Short Form-36 (SF-36) and Foot and Ankle Outcome Score (FAOS) questionnaires. The correlation betwee...

BACKGROUND There is limited data examining the association of combined fitness and central obesity with health related quality of life (HRQoL) in adults. We examined the association of combined cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in the form of a fit-fat index (FFI) with the Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) HRQoL scores in United S...