Striking Finding on Colonoscopy: Is This a Watermelon Colon?

Thirty-six patients with hemiplegic cerebral palsy had surgical treatment for the upper limb and were followed up for 18 months postoperatively. Various operations were done. A striking finding was a significant improvement of stereognosis (ability to describe and recognize objects without vision). Most patients had improvement in different functional grasps following surgical reconstruction. Range of movement in the forearm and wrist also increased in most patients. The thumb-in-palm deformity was completely corrected in 31 of the patients and improved in the other five. Most patients had some or all of their expectations of the procedure fulfilled.

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Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele

Studies in African Linguistics ◽

10.32473/sal.v30i1.107360 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 34-58

Author(s):

Laura J. Downing

Keyword(s):

Minimality Condition ◽

Phonological Processes ◽

Stress Assignment ◽

Prosodic Morphology ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Maximal Size ◽

Verb Forms ◽

Size Constraints ◽

Morphological Processes

A body of work in Prosodic Morphology clearly establishes the importance of prosodic constituents like the foot as templates conditioning morpheme size. A striking finding of this research is that morphological footing is independent of metrical footing in many languages, as the footing required for particular morphological processes is often not identical to that required for phonological processes like stress assignment. However, recent OT research on Prosodic Morphology has made the opposite claim. Within this theory, the Generalized Template Hypothesis (GTH) proposes that no morpheme-particular templates defining minimal and maximal size are necessary. Instead, templates are always derivable from general principles of the grammar, like independently motivated metrical footing. This paper presents evidence from Ndebele showing that the GTH is too strong. In Ndebele, several different verb forms are subject to a minimality condition. In some cases, the minimality condition can be derived through independent metrical footing, as the GTH predicts. However, in several cases it cannot, showing that morpheme-particular size constraints are still a necessary part of the grammar.

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Beyond single words: the most frequent collocations in spoken English

10.26686/wgtn.12552155.v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Nation ◽

D Shin

Keyword(s):

Spoken Word ◽

Spoken English ◽

Oxford University ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Data Source ◽

Oxford University Press

This study presents a list of the highest frequency collocations of spoken English based on carefully applied criteria. In the literature, more than forty terms have been used for designating multi-word units, which are generally not well defined. To avoid this confusion, six criteria are strictly applied. The ten million word BNC spoken section was used as the data source, and the 1,000 most frequent spoken word types from that corpus were all investigated as pivot words. The most striking finding was that there is a large number of collocations meeting the six criteria and a large number of these would qualify for inclusion in the most frequent 2,000 words of English, if no distinction was made between single words and collocations. Many of these collocations could be usefully taught in an elementary speaking course. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved.

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Beyond single words: the most frequent collocations in spoken English

10.26686/wgtn.12552155 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

D Shin ◽

Paul Nation

Keyword(s):

Spoken Word ◽

Spoken English ◽

Oxford University ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Data Source ◽

Oxford University Press

This study presents a list of the highest frequency collocations of spoken English based on carefully applied criteria. In the literature, more than forty terms have been used for designating multi-word units, which are generally not well defined. To avoid this confusion, six criteria are strictly applied. The ten million word BNC spoken section was used as the data source, and the 1,000 most frequent spoken word types from that corpus were all investigated as pivot words. The most striking finding was that there is a large number of collocations meeting the six criteria and a large number of these would qualify for inclusion in the most frequent 2,000 words of English, if no distinction was made between single words and collocations. Many of these collocations could be usefully taught in an elementary speaking course. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press; all rights reserved.

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The Partisan Affinities of Independent ‘Leaners’

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123400003872 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 155-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Bruce E. Keith ◽

David B. Magleby ◽

Candice J. Nelson ◽

Elizabeth Orr ◽

Mark C. Westlye ◽

...

Keyword(s):

American Politics ◽

Adult Population ◽

The Other ◽

Third Place ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Democrats And Republicans ◽

Prevailing View ◽

Independent Voters

For almost a decade we have taken issue with the prevailing view of independent voters. We showed that Independents, as they were usually defined, had nothing in common, and in fact were more diverse than either Democrats or Republicans. Virtually no generalizations about Independents were correct, except by accident, because they comprise three very different kinds of people. Most Independents acknowledge that they are closer to one or the other party. The crux of our argument was that this ‘leaning’ should outweigh an initial claim of independence when deciding how to classify respondents. Our most striking finding was that leaners vote like outright partisans. We interpreted this as evidence that most professed Independents are not neutral between the parties, but are nearly as partisan as avowed Democrats and Republicans. This conclusion had major implications for both mainstream and revisionist views of American politics, all the more so because of the growing numbers of Independents, who accounted for 38 per cent of the adult population by 1978, thus matching the Democrats and leaving Republicans in a distant third place.

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Effect of cold stress on lipogenesis by adipose tissue

American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content ◽

10.1152/ajplegacy.1960.198.5.1123 ◽

1960 ◽

Vol 198 (5) ◽

pp. 1123-1125 ◽

Cited By ~ 71

Author(s):

E. J. Masoro ◽

Edith Porter ◽

Judith Patkin

Keyword(s):

Fatty Acids ◽

Adipose Tissue ◽

Cold Stress ◽

Incubation Medium ◽

Acetate Metabolism ◽

Hepatic Lipogenesis ◽

Acetate Oxidation ◽

Fat Pad ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Epididymal Fat

The effect of cold stress on acetate metabolism by adipose tissue was investigated. Cold stress did not affect the ability of the epididymal fat pad to oxidize acetate-1-C14 to C14O2. The addition of unlabeled glucose to the incubation medium did not influence the rate of acetate oxidation in the case of adipose tissue obtained from either control or cold-stressed rats. In the absence of unlabeled glucose, more fatty acids from acetate-1-C14 were synthesized by the adipose tissue from control rats than by that from cold-stressed rats, although very little was synthesized by either. The addition of unlabeled glucose to the incubation medium at the physiologic concentration of 100 mg % caused the adipose tissue from both normal and cold-stressed rats to form fatty acids at high rates. It is a striking finding that cold stress, which almost abolishes hepatic lipogenesis, does not appreciably alter adipose tissue lipogenesis.

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Questionnaire Study of the Teeth on Edge Phenomenon

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1977.41.3.823 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 823-827 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

P. S. Delin ◽

A. H. Winefield

Keyword(s):

Questionnaire Study ◽

Striking Finding

This study followed up a previous one which showed that subjects interpret the phrase “having the teeth set on edge” either as a sensation-based or as an emotion-based experience. The present study showed that most (372 students) have had both kinds of experience, can distinguish between them, and can recognize and comprehend the phrase “having the teeth set on edge.” However, the most striking finding was that, despite this general comprehension of the phrase, only 5% could produce it in response to descriptions of the experience and of the stimuli that most frequently cause it.

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Incidental verbatim memory for language

Language and Cognition ◽

10.1515/langcog.2010.003 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 45-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Olga Gurevich ◽

Matthew A. Johnson ◽

Adele E. Goldberg

Keyword(s):

Memory Test ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Lexical Content ◽

To Receive ◽

Verbatim Memory

AbstractIt is widely believed that explicit verbatim memory for language is virtually nonexistent except in certain circumstances, for example if participants are warned they are to receive a memory test, if the language is ‘interactive’ (emotion-laden), or if the texts are exceedingly short and memory is tested immediately. The present experiments revisit the question of verbatim memory for language and demonstrate that participants do reliably recognize and recall full sentences that they are exposed to only once at above chance rates (Experiments 1 and 3). The texts are 300 words long, non-interactive, and no advanced warning of a memory test is given. Verbatim memory is demonstrated even when lexical content and memory for gist are controlled for (Experiments 2 and 4). The most striking finding is one of incidental recall: even after a six-day delay, participants reliably reproduce sentences they have heard before when asked to describe scenes, even though they are not asked to recall what they had heard (Experiment 5).

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The Distribution of Fibrous Flexor Sheath Ganglions

Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume) ◽

10.1016/s0266-7681(97)80068-x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 226-227 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

H. AL-KHAWASHKI ◽

G. HOOPER

Keyword(s):

Middle Finger ◽

Clear Relationship ◽

Male Predominance ◽

The Third ◽

Striking Finding

The distribution of fibrous flexor sheath ganglions was studied in 57 patients. They were found to be more common in the third decade and in the middle finger. Both hands were equally affected. There was no clear relationship to occupation or repeated trauma. The striking finding in our study was the male predominance.

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Unusual Group II Introns in Bacteria of the Bacillus cereus Group

Journal of Bacteriology ◽

10.1128/jb.187.15.5437-5451.2005 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 187 (15) ◽

pp. 5437-5451 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Nicolas J. Tourasse ◽

Fredrik B. Stabell ◽

Lillian Reiter ◽

Anne-Brit Kolstø

Keyword(s):

Bacillus Cereus ◽

Surface Protein ◽

Group Ii Introns ◽

Gene Encoding ◽

Α Subunit ◽

Striking Finding ◽

Reverse Strand ◽

Group Ii ◽

Dna Strand

ABSTRACT A combination of sequence and structure analysis and reverse transcriptase PCR experiments was used to characterize the group II introns in the complete genomes of two strains of the pathogen Bacillus cereus. While B. cereus ATCC 14579 harbors a single intron element in the chromosome, B. cereus ATCC 10987 contains three introns in the chromosome and four in its 208-kb pBc10987 plasmid. The most striking finding is the presence in B. cereus ATCC 10987 of an intron [B.c.I2(a)] located on the reverse strand of a gene encoding a putative cell surface protein which appears to be correlated to strains of clinical origin. Because of the opposite orientation of B.c.I2(a), the gene is disrupted. Even more striking is that B.c.I2(a) splices out of an RNA transcript corresponding to the opposite DNA strand. All other intragenic introns studied here are inserted in the same orientation as their host genes and splice out of the mRNA in vivo, setting the flanking exons in frame. Noticeably, B.c.I3 in B. cereus ATCC 10987 represents the first example of a group II intron entirely included within a conserved replication gene, namely, the α subunit of DNA polymerase III. Another striking finding is that the observed 3′ splice site of B.c.I4 occurs 56 bp after the predicted end of the intron. This apparently unusual splicing mechanism may be related to structural irregularities in the 3′ terminus. Finally, we also show that the intergenic introns of B. cereus ATCC 10987 are transcribed with their upstream genes and do splice in vivo.

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