The scoring system included: (I) compliance of the patient to BRAT, (II) functional outcome measures (FOM), (III) effect of BRAT on biomechanical measures (BMM) of swallowing (based on video fluoroscopic assessment) and (VI) quality of life evaluation (QOL).
By now we had a passable working knowledge of brat and bun.
Along with five or six other reporters in the bureau, Arthur and Rattner formed a kind of brat pack.
The Francis Ford Coppola film adaptation, starring a who's who of Brat Pack actors, has certainly aided the book's longevity.
Part of my avoidance of "brat" status, I believe, comes from having attended public schools, where I learned alongside a socially and economically diverse group of students.
Mr. Kazan, 48, is a certified public accountant in Philadelphia, where he is on the board of Brat Productions, an experimental theater company.
But it wasn't easy to get them to accept it, they complained that it reaffirmed the perception of Roma as beggars," said Salvatore Tramacere, the director of "Brat" and founder of Cantieri Koreja, explaining why he chose "The Beggar's Opera".
"My sister believed that theater could redeem those who live in solitude and are ostracized," Ms. Pomodoro said after watching a condensed performance of "Brat" before the awards ceremony.
The first and most successful of the adaptations, despite, or maybe because of, its infidelity to the source material, "Less Than Zero" is a kind of Brat Pack movie with cocaine and prostitution.
As in earlier cabaret shows, her blend of mystery and allure, of brat and sophisticate, evokes a film noir femme fatale of the junior variety: the wild, runaway teenager with a secret night life.
All patients received certain items of BRAT (posture techniques, swallowing manoeuvres, etc).
