Background: Degenerative spine disease is a common cause of low back pain in people
age 65 years or older. Nonsurgical treatment is tried first, but if it is unsuccessful, surgery is …

Background Retrospective observational study of prospectively collected outcomes. Objective
The use of transpedicular screws augmented with polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is an …

Background Surgical treatment of degenerative lumbar disease in the elderly is
controversial. Elderly patients have an increased risk for medical and surgical complications …

Women Telling Nations highlights how, from the 16th to the 19th centuries, European women,
as readers and writers, contributed to the construction of national identities. The book, …

… Recently, we lost two dear colleagues, Vivyan Alers here in South Africa, and Sylvia
Sanz Victoria, from Spain. I ask that we take a moment of silence now, to honour their lives. …

Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health,
and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and …

The regeneration of wastewater has been recognized as an effective strategy to counter water
scarcity. Nonetheless, Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) effluents still contain a wide …

We study the skew-product semiflow induced by a family of convex and cooperative delay
differential systems. Under some monotonicity assumptions, we obtain an ergodic …

The exponential ordering is exploited in the context of nonautonomous delay systems,
inducing monotone skew-product semiflows under less restrictive conditions than usual. Some …

… of such kind of damage controls the aging rate (reviewed in Sanz et al., 2006b). For this reason,
… Alberto Sanz received a predoctoral fellowship from UCM and Asimina Hiona received a …