To study the effects of clinicians' slow rate on the speech of children who stutter with and without a concomitant phonological disorder, an A-B-A-B single case design was used with six clinician-child dyads, where B = Clinician's slow speech rate model. Two boys and one girl, aged 49-54 months, stuttering with disordered phonology (S + DP), were compared to three boys aged 42-50 months, stutte...

Procrastination is a common problem, but defining and measuring it has been subject to some debate. This paper summarizes results from students and employees (N = 2893) in Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Poland, and Sweden using the Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) and the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS; Steel, 2010), both assumed to measure unidimensional and closely related constructs...

OBJECTIVE It was to evaluate the degree of fatigue in patients with paralytic poliomyelitis (PP) and with post-polio syndrome (PPS), and correlate it with parameters of sleep and the circadian cycle. METHODS Thirty patients, 17 female (56.7%), participated in the study: they answered the Revised Piper Fatigue Scale and performed a nocturnal polysomnographic study. Eleven had PP (mean age±stan...

This paper discusses the behaviour of German particle verbs formed by two-way prepositions in combination with pleonastic PPs including the verb particle as a preposition. These particle verbs have a characteristic feature: some of them license directional prepositional phrases in the accusative, some only allow for locative PPs in the dative, and some particle verbs can occur with PPs in the a...

INTRODUCTION Postpoliomyelitis syndrome (PPS) refers to the new neuromuscular symptoms that occur in patients years after their acute poliomyelitis has stabilised. PPS cases seen now are probably related to the poliomyelitis epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s. CLINICAL PICTURE AND INVESTIGATION A 57-year-old Chinese man with a history of poliomyelitis affecting both lower limbs presented with l...

Tumor angiogenesis is critically important to tumor growth and metastasis. We have shown that pentosan polysulfate (PPS) is an effective inhibitor of heparin-binding growth factors in vitro and can effectively inhibit the establishment and growth of tumors in nude mice. Following completion of our Phase I trial of s.c. administered PPS, we performed a Phase I trial of p.o. administered PPS in p...

A scientific article usually is divided into parts; an abstract, which gives a brief overview of the article; the introduction, where related findings are discussed; the methods, which tell how the work was done; the results, which tell what was found in the study and the discussion in which the results are put into context with previous findings. In this final section the authors can speculate...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to (1) establish current sedation practice in UK critical care to inform evidence synthesis and potential future primary research and (2) to compare practice reported via a survey with actual practice assessed in a point prevalence study (PPS). METHODS UK adult general critical care units were invited to participate in a survey of current sedation pra...

Ethical controversies regarding the control of science and technology, especially emerging biotechnologies, are among the most contentious of current issues under public debate. Cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer (even the terminology is controversial) and stem cell research are hotbutton political issues, with presidential ethics advisors, presidents and exfi rst ladies weighing in, thre...

In the six counties served by the Alliance For Better Health Care PPS (Alliance), there are approximately 519 primary care providers (PCPs) that have attributed Medicaid beneficiaries. Over 92% of these practitioners are open to new Medicaid beneficiaries. Of these 519 PCPs, 254 also participate in other PPSs in our region. In addition, the network has 573 specialists and 257 hospital based spe...