OBJECTIVES To investigate: (i) the intra-rater, inter-rater and test-retest reliabilities of completion times and step counts on the Standardized Walking Obstacle Course test (SWOC); (ii) correlations between SWOC scores and stroke-specific impairments; (iii) the cut-off SWOC completion times and step counts for distinguishing differences in obstacle negotiation ability in people with chronic s...

Background Smoking and smoke from biomass burning (BB) are the main environmental risk factors for COPD. Clinical differences have been described between COPD related to smoking and related to wood smoke, but no studies have shown genetic differences between patients exposed to these two risk factors. Methods To investigate a possible association of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) promoter polymo...

In the abstracts that follow the author who presented the paper is marked with an *. The last two abstracts were poster demonstrations and the remainder were clinical papers. The X-ray quiz was won by Mr. D. Halpin of Torbay and the SWOC Prize certificate was won by Miss D. Eastwood of Bristol. The Pridie Memorial lecture entitled "South West Orthopaedics 1948-91" was given by Mr. A. H. C. Ratliff

Strategies for diversification of economic activities in villages Saqez city using SWOC method and QSPM matrix

Purpose: Hospitality is an amazing concept followed throughout the world. It method in which we welcome guests and visitors, whether domestic or foreign, through generosity entertainment. The hospitality Industry India growing at exponential rate. a major source of nationwide income generation has incredible overwhelming scope for growth future. Undoubtedly this industry one huge profit-making ...

Previous work identified swoC1 as a single-gene mutant with defects in polarity establishment. In this study swoC1 was shown to have defects in endocytosis, compartmentation, nuclear distribution, and conidiation. Temperature-shift experiments showed that the swoC1 mutant establishes multiple random sites of germ tube emergence. Surprisingly, these experiments also showed that even a slight del...

Inspired by the Google Wonder Wheel, in this paper we present Semantic Wonder Cloud (SWOC): a tool that helps users in knowledge exploration within the DBpedia dataset by adopting a hybrid approach. We describe both the architecture and the user interface. The system exploits not only pure semantic connections in the underlying RDF graph but it mixes the meaning of such information with externa...