The purpose of this case study was to determine the therapeutic effect ofShort Wave Diathermy (SWD) in the symptomatic management of chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) pain. Three cases ofchronic PID were referred from the Obstetric and Gynaecology department of Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital (MMSH) and a Private Gynaecology Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, for Physiotherapy. SWD was adm...

Reading comprehension growth trajectories from third to seventh grade were estimated for 99,919 students on a state reading comprehension assessment. We examined whether differences between students in general education (GE) and groups of students identified as exceptional learners were best characterized as stable, widening, or narrowing. The groups included students with disabilities (SWD) fr...

Sneddon-Wilkinson disease (SWD), also known as subcorneal pustular dermatosis, is a rare, chronic eruption that is often difficult to treat, particularly in patients who do not respond to or cannot tolerate dapsone. Few case reports exist of patients with SWD treated with antitumour necrosis factor-alpha therapy. We report two patients with SWD refractory to numerous treatments, who responded t...

Sleep deprivation can acutely reverse depressive symptoms in some patients with major depression. Because abnormalities in slow wave sleep are one of the most consistent biological markers of depression, it is plausible that the antidepressant effects of sleep deprivation are due to the effects on slow wave homeostasis. This study tested the prediction that selectively reducing slow waves durin...

In WAG/Rij rats the pair linear correlation r was calculated for bipolar recordings in fronto-temporal, fronto-occipital and occipito-temporal zones of both hemispheres as well as in paleocerebellar cortex (culmen). It was shown that development of SWD bursts resulted in interhemispheric decreases of correlation between the right occipito-temporal cortical region on one side, and left fronto-te...

The cluster randomised trial (CRT) design is widely used to evaluate interventions targeted at the cluster level and helps alleviate contamination within clusters. CRTs usually require large sample sizes, although matched pair CRTs can limit this problem. The stepped wedge design (SWD) extends CRTs, in cases where it is expected that the intervention will do more good than harm and/or, for logi...

Network mechanisms relevant for the generation, maintenance and termination of spike-wave discharges (SWD), the neurophysiological hallmark of absence epilepsy, are still enigmatic and widely discussed. Within the last years, however, improvements in signal analytical techniques, applied to both animal and human fMRI, EEG, MEG, and ECoG data, greatly increased our understanding and challenged s...

Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) is a promising technique for increasing hard disk drive (HDD) capacity by overlapping adjacent tracks, which enforces writes to be performed in a sequential manner in order not to destroy the valid data in the following neighboring tracks. In this paper we introduce T-STL, a Track-based Shingled Translation Layer for autonomous Shingled Write Disks (SWDs). T-ST...

Deconvolution interferometry successfully recovers the impulse response between two receivers without the need for an independent estimate of the source function. Here we extend the method of interferometry by deconvolution to multicomponent data in elastic media.As in the acoustic case, elastic deconvolution interferometry retrieves only causal scattered waves that propagate between two receiv...

A new salient semantics-less blob detector named the Stable Wave Detector (SWD) is suggested. The detector proved to be particularly very useful in tracking a target in a videosequence. SWD is a multiscale blob detector in the intensity image. The targets are blobs in 2D which correspond to local maxima/minima of the image intensities or positive and negative peaks in 1D. SWD belongs to a group...