This retrospective study investigated the incidence, characteristics, and
risk factors of bone fracture among a group of 518 adults with severe mental
retardation between 25 and 75 years old. Data were collected from a large state
developmental center in the Western United States between April 1, 1991 and
March 31,...
One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the potential erosion
impacts associated with ship movements in confined waters. The flow
associated with a ship passage can be separated accordingly: (1) the
propeller wake, (2) flow about the hull, and (3) associated waves.
Each of these areas has been analyzed...
The present study was conducted to examine the effects of early orientation of counseling related students to the two most prevalent paradigms of psychodiagnostic decision-making on first, the integration of the model, and second, on the ability to make proficient diagnostic decisions while in training.
Using an experimental, pretest posttest...
The navicular drop test (NDT), Feiss' line (FL) and standing foot angle (SFA)
are clinical tests used to estimate the amount of pronation via inferior displacement of
the tarsal navicular. Thirty-two patients (female and male, ages 18-65) who sought
medical treatment for lower extremity pathologies participated in the study that...