This retrospective case control study compared lengthening, mean distraction index (DI), mean external fixation index (EFI), mean consolidation index (CI) and complications between 17 tibiae treated with an external fixation device (control group) and 13 tibiae treated with an external fixation device over a nail (experimental group).
Patients with SLE had long-standing disease with a mean 16.3-year duration and historically fulfilled a median of five ACR classification criteria, 45% had anti-dsDNA antibodies, and on average patients had some damage (SLICC/ACR-DI mean of 2.15 ± 1.81).
They can only be singular, even when, instinctively, you think they should be plural: ho visto alcuni film di Bertolucci means literally: "I've seen some of Bertolucci's film [no "s"]".
(For example: What motivates you to visit Syria at a time when even many residents are leaving? What does di Giovanni mean when she says, 'In war, truth dies first'?) Then ask for student volunteers to sit in the "hot seat" and play the role of surgeon or journalist, fielding questions from classmates in a mock news conference.
Mr. Mugabe declared the brigade would be named "Gukurahundi" (pronounced guh-kura-HUN-di), which means "the rain that washes away the chaff before the spring rains".
Depression index (DI) The mean of the numeric values (scored 0 to 4) to RDC/TMD Axis II Q20 (items: b, e, h, i, k, l, m, n, v, y, cc, dd, ee, f, g, q, z, aa, bb, ff) showed the degree of psychological pain.
The remission rate in our study furthermore corresponds to the rates observed for anti-TNF-alpha and MTX monotherapy: In the PREMIER study with early RA patients who, however, presented with a more severe disease (higher values for SJC, TJC, HAQ-DI, and mean DAS28) DAS28 remission rates at year 1 were 23.0% for adalimumab and 21.0% for MTX [ 17].
The gondola is called La Fia di Venezia, which means the Daughter of Venice.
The results, reported in Table 7, highlight how as governors are constrained, either through economic conditions or political institutions, they are more likely to use DI as a means of public welfare.
While a good deal of the political economy literature focuses on unemployment and political outcomes, it is equally plausible that governors who are constrained from social welfare spending through political institutions may use DI as a means to improve the well-being of individuals in their state.
