Background Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is the most common degenerative
dysfunction of the spinal cord in the cervical spine in patients older than 55 years. The Japanese …

Background. Few reports have compared reconstructive outcomes of primary versus secondary
mandibular reconstruction. Methods. A retrospective chart review was performed on 149 …

Introduction Lumbar pain of facet origin is a common problem worldwide. For those patients
not responding to traditional treatment, one approach may be intra-articular infiltration of …

Despite decades of climate science research, existing climate actions have had limited impacts
on mitigating climate change. Efforts to reduce emissions, for example, have yet to spur …

In several recent articles, 2 the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce has issued
preliminary estimates of various components of the gross national product which were thought to …

Background and purpose There is conflicting evidence with respect to the correlation between
neoadjuvant chemoradiation and anastomotic complications following trimodality therapy …

Past etiology of adolescent substance use research concentrated on the main effects of
various risk factors. The purpose of this study was to also longitudinally predict interactions on …

The challenge of mandibular reconstruction is potentially increased in secondary reconstructive
procedures as a result of scarring, wound bed contamination, and the greater likelihood …

In this note we consider the control of a pseudo-parabolic or parabolic problem at a point a
in subject to constraints. We obtain a bang-bang property for an optimal control that depends …

Only a few studies have found competence skills to be a protective factor against adolescent
alcohol use; others did not find a direct effect on alcohol. A possible reason for this is that …