Psychological factors may be a hindrance for returning to sport after an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The ACL-Return to Sport after Injury scale (ACL-RSI) measures athletes' emotions, confidence in performance, and risk appraisal in relation to return to sport. The aim of this study was to translate the ACL-RSI scale from English to Swedish and to examine some of the measure...

PURPOSE We assessed the utility of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with relative signal intensity (rSI) statistical thresholding for delineating prostate cancer tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen patients with prostate cancer underwent DWI before total prostatectomy. We measured standard deviation (SD) of the signal intensity (SI) of the lesser pelvic space at DWI, created rSI maps, dis...

In the literature on implicit learning, controversy exists regarding whether the knowledge obtained from implicit sequence learning consists of context-bound superficial features or context-free structural rules. To explore the nature of implicit knowledge, event related potentials (ERP) recordings of participants' performances in a non-local dependent transfer task under two response-stimulus-...

OBJECTIVES This article describes the characteristics of people who report a repetitive strain injury (RSI) and examines the association of an RSI with chronic pain and with psychological distress. DATA SOURCES The data are from Statistics Canada's 2000/01 Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and the 1994/95 to 2000/01 National Population Health Survey (NPHS). ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES Cross...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) symptoms in health checkup examinees and in patients with otitis media with effusion (OME) of undetermined etiology and the significance of age, body mass index (BMI), and pepsinogen (PG) concentration in middle ear effusions (MEEs). STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Health checkup and private clinics. SUB...

In patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC), postoperative upstaging including perinephric fat invasion (PNI) and renal sinus invasion (RSI) leads to unfavorable oncological outcomes. Determining the preoperative risk factors for postoperative upstaging could be beneficial for treatment planning. In this study, 267 RCC patients who underwent radical nephrectomy were studied retrospectively. The...

In this paper, we propose a novel Rhetorical Structure Index (RSI) to measure the structural importance of a word or a phrase. Unlike TF-IDF and other content-driven measurements, RSI identifies words or phrases that are structural cues in an unstructured document. We show structurally motivated features with high RSI values are more useful than content-driven features for applications such as ...

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The present study explores the nature of attentional selection in younger and older adults. Following R. De Jong, E. Berendsen, and R. Cools (1999, Acta Psychologica, Vol. 101, pp. 379-394), we manipulated the response to stimulus interval (RSI) in two attentional selection paradigms to examine if there are age-related differences in the quality of task set and/or the maintenance of task set ac...

INTRODUCTION Rapid sequence induction (RSI) of critically ill patients outside of theatres is associated with a higher risk of hypoxia, cardiovascular collapse and death. In the prehospital and military environments, there is an increasing awareness of the benefits of standardised practice and checklists. METHODS We conducted a non-systematic review of literature pertaining to key components ...