Sílvia Barros, Eduardo Gallego, Alfredo Lorente, Isabel F. Gonçalves, Pedro Vaz, Héctor René Vega-Carrillo and Maria Zankl IST/CTN, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Estrada Nacional 10, ao km 139,7 2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal; Departamento de Ingeniería Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, E-28006, Madrid, España; Unidad Académica de Estudios Nucleares de la Universidad Autónoma de Za...

This paper presents and discusses data on vowel devoicing in English from Ph.D. research being carried out under Sarah Hawkins at Cambridge, and more recently with Klaus Kohler at the Institut für Phonetik und digitale Sprachverarbeitung in Kiel; and data on vowel deletion in German from the Kiel Corpus of Spontaneous Speech (IPDS 1995, 1996) reported most recently by Pétur Helgason and Klaus K...

Larsen syndrome is characterized by multiple joint dislocations, associated with a typical facial appearance and frequently other abnormalities. Both dominant and recessive patterns of inheritance have been reported. A lethal form of Larsen syndrome (Larsen-like syndrome) has been described as a combination of the Larsen phenotype and pulmonary hypoplasia. In this report, we present a 24-week-o...

The collapses of the Larsen A and B ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1995 and 2002 confirm the impact of southward-propagating climate warming in this region. Recent mass and dynamic changes of Larsen B's southern neighbour Larsen C, the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, may herald a similar instability. Here, using a validated ice-shelf model run in diagnostic mode, constrained ...

Understanding how users think of personal information, and how they mentally categorise or classify the objects they work with, should inform the design of personal information management (PIM) or personal retrieval systems. However, most investigations of this topic predate widespread multimedia, websites, and social media—objects that a contemporary PIM or retrieval system should work with. W...

History and clinical findings A 12-year-old boy presented to a paediatric rheumatology clinic with a 2-month history of painful knees. He had been referred from the paediatric oncology department with a previous diagnosis of acute lymphocytic leukaemia, in remission for 5 years. The pain was felt just below the patella, especially after a game of soccer, climbing stairs or walking for long dist...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate radiographically the glenohumeral (GH) joint space in patients with long-term rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS A cohort of 74 patients with RA were followed prospectively for 15 yr. At the end point, 148 shoulders were radiographed using a standard method. The GH joint space was examined from the radiographs using a method developed previously for population studies; t...

objective (s):rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder, primarily targeting the synovium and articular cartilage that leads to joint damage. recent reports have suggested the role of adipocytokines in mediating joint damage; however it still is a matter of debate. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between serum values of adiopocytokines (lept...