Objective To conduct a trial of the effectiveness of magnetic bracelets as used in the consumer market for pain control in osteoarthritis of hip and knee. Design Randomised, placebo-controlled trial with three parallel groups. Setting Primary care study set in five rural general practices in Mid Devon, UK. Subjects 194 men and women aged 45 to 80 years with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. In...

Individuals in the Global North wishing to support people South can purchase a fundraising bracelet order ‘change lives’. This article examines use of bracelets for International Development (FBID) as form ‘New Responsibility’. We illustrate through database and critical discourse analysis that FBID campaigns are distinctly feminized version ID aid where women engaged consumers, campaign founde...

Recognition of activities of daily living plays an important role in monitoring elderly people and helping caregivers in controlling and detecting changes in daily behaviors. Thanks to the miniaturization and low cost of Microelectromechanical systems (MEMs), in particular of Inertial Measurement Units, in recent years body-worn activity recognition has gained popularity. In this context, the p...

This contribution deals with the bronze bracelets found in Netherlands that are datable between Late Neolithic and Middle Iron Age (n=176). We study their context (hoards, funerary contexts, settlements stray finds), we relate specifics of form decoration to regional supraregional traditions. First, role as social signifiers (in reconstructions) prehistoric identities across those scales, discu...

Angioedema (AE) is a problem that all doctors inclusive of emergency room physicians and the otolaryngologists are often asked to treat. We present a six-year experience with this disorder. In this series, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) were related to 60% of admissions for angioedema. Lip and tongue swelling was the most common manifestation. The discontinuation of ACEI thera...

We study the previously introduced bracketed tiling construction and obtain direct proofs of some identities for the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. By adding a new type of tile we call a superdomino to this construction, we obtain combinatorial proofs of some formulas for the Fibonacci and Lucas polynomials, which we were unable to find in the literature. Special cases of these formulas occur in ...

In this article, we present a selection of previously unpublished metal jewellery (decorative pins, fibulae, bracelets, neck rings, and earrings) housed at Diyarbakır Museum, where they were acquired by requisition or purchase. The objective study is to evaluate these items with common characteristics as group provide chronological assessment based on comparative typological analysis in referen...