Background:   Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is defined as pain surrounding the patella when sitting with bent knees for prolonged periods of time or when performing activities like ascending or descending stairs, squatting or   athletic activities. Patella dislocation is not included in PFPS.     Purpose:   This review analyzes the evidence based conservative management of PFPS.   Methods...

Focused crawling is an efficient mechanism for discovering resources of interest on the web. Link structure is an important property of the web that defines its content. In this thesis, FOCUS a novel focused crawler is described, which primarily uses the link structure of the web in its crawling strategy. It uses currently available search engine APIs, provided by Google, to construct a layered...

The feasibility of the use of short pulses or amplitude modulation of focused ultrasound for noninvasive local stimulation of superficial and deep-seated neural structures of humans to induce different somatic (tactile, warmth, cold, pain, etc.), and hearing sensations is discussed. Such possibilities are of interest for the application of this method in the diagnosis of neurological, dermatolo...

Usually writing teachers feel commitment to provide their learners with corrective feedback (CF) to their linguistic errors. The study investigated whether two types of written corrective feedback, indirect focused corrective feedback and indirect unfocused corrective feedback, produced differential effects on the accurate use of grammatical forms by high intermediate EFL learners. In this stud...