BACKGROUND Evidence-based guidelines are not currently available for the treatment of positional plagiocephaly and, in particular, for the use of physical therapy for treatment. OBJECTIVE To answer the question: "does physical therapy provide effective treatment for positional plagiocephaly?" Treatment recommendations are created based on the available evidence. METHODS The PubMed and the C...

In his book, Before Writing, Gunter Kress (1997) discusses the many modes in which children represent meaning before they master the system of writing. His illustrations include: drawings, some of them coloured in, or cut out and adorned with further material; three-dimensional figures; and my favorite a photograph of a ‘pillow car’, made from two wire-mesh drawers, a pillow, a red toolbox and ...

Purpose: to study anatomical and physiological features of the soft palate in patients with rhonchopathy obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome so as minimize damage tissue structures during laser uvulopalatoplasty. Material methods. Five hundred twenty-three OSA were examined using index technique for determining neck circumference-height ratio (NHR), pharyngoscopy endoscopy oral pharyngeal ca...

The laryngeal tube has a potential role in airway management during anaesthesia or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In patients with unstable necks, the head and neck may need to be stabilised manually (manual in-line stabilisation), but it is not known whether this procedure affects the ease of insertion of the laryngeal tube. We studied, in a cross-over study, 21 adult patients to compare the s...

Snow measurements at the Kühtai station in Tirol, Austria, (1920 m.a.s.l.) are described. The data set includes snow water equivalent from a 10 m2 snow pillow, snow melt outflow from a 10 m2 snow lysimeter placed at the same location as the pillow, meteorological data (precipitation, incoming shortwave radiation, reflected shortwave radiation, air temperature, relative air humidity, and wind sp...

CASE REPORT A 9-month-old, full-term, healthy female infant presented with a 1-month history of skin eruptions on her left auricle. There was no other specific medical history. On examination, there were two erythematous shiny nodules on her left ear (Fig. 1). One on the antihelix was 7 mm in size with an ulceration in the center. The other was on the helix and was 2 mm, with a smooth surface. ...

[1] We used daily remotely sensed fractional snow-covered area (SCA) at 500 m resolution to estimate snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Upper Merced and Tuolumne River basins of the Sierra Nevada of California for 2004 (dry and warm) and 2005 (wet and cool). From 1800 to 3900 m, each successively higher 300 m elevation band consistently melts out 2–3 weeks later than the one below it. We co...

[1] These first measurements of specific surface area (SSA) of bulk samples of subsurfacemarine basalts were undertaken to determine the potential area available for microbial colonization. SSA ranged from 0.3 to 52 m/g of basalt with the lowest value coming from pillow basalt and the highest value from breccia. The average for massive and pillow basalts combined was 2.3 m/g. The total specific...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the etiology, main clinical manifestations and other concurrent findings in mouth-breathing children aged 3 to 9 years and resident in the urban area of Abaeté (MG), Brazil. METHODS This study was based on a representative random sample of the town population, of 23,596 inhabitants. Clinical diagnosis of mouth-breathing was defined as a combination of snoring, sleepin...

Many types of fully implantable hearing aids have been developed. Most of these devices are implanted behind the ear. To maintain the implanted device for a long period of time, a rechargeable battery and wireless power transmission are used. Because inductive coupling is the most renowned method for wireless power transmission, many types of fully implantable hearing aids are transcutaneously ...