background: to evaluate the patients with stroke by functional independence measure (fim) scale, at the times of admission to hospital, discharge, and six-month poststroke, and to determine the level of improvement in patients after rehabilitative procedures. methods: a total number of 108 patients with stroke entered the study who were admitted to neurology ward. they all received rehabilitati...

To assess the interrelation of clinical and procedural factors responsible for restenosis, 119 patients undergoing coronary arteriography were studied a mean of 5.8 +/- 3 months after successful multiple percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. In all clinical, angiographic and procedural variables, the 119 patients undergoing repeat catheterization were similar to the 87 patients that d...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of feeding legume hay (alfalfa; Medicago sativa L.) or mixed-grass hay on ADG and carcass characteristics of growing goats. In Experiment 1, 24 Spanish kids, equally representing female, intact male and wether goats, were pen-fed ad libitum either chopped alfalfa (16.8 percent CP) or mixed grass hay (9.4 percent CP) (3 pens/diet) and a corn/...

BACKGROUND: Outpatient craniotomy, biopsy, and spinal decompression have been performed at our center for more than a decade. Early feasibility studies suggest that they are safe, successful, cost-effective, and well-tolerated by patients. However, a largescale study of this magnitude has not been performed. OBJECTIVE: To characterize postoperative complications and the rate of successful disch...

In London on September 11-12, 2000, the Royal Society—the independent scientifi c academy in Britain, the counterpart to the U.S. National Academy of Science—hosted a discussion meeting on the “Origins of HIV and the AIDS epidemic.” The brochure about the meeting gave this synopsis: “HIV-1 and HIV-2 causing AIDS are new human viruses of animal origin. When, how and why these cross-species infec...

Introduction Neurodisability is probably the most significant contributor to chronic surgical disability in African children. It involves primarily hydrocephalus (HC) and spina bifida (SB), which can occur in isolation or together. Other causes of neurodisability include encephaloceles, which are part of the spectrum of neural tube defects (NTDs). True cerebral palsy is primarily nonsurgical, a...

Three new Block Code Diversity combing schemes for digital transmission over a Rayleigh fading channel have been proposed. It has been shown that improved performance in term of probability of error versus signal to noise ratio has been obtained using soft-decision Viterbi decoding together with diversity techniques. Simulation results have been included to verify the performance of the propose...