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H Reed

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PubMed2004

Prevalence of bladder neck mobility in asymptomatic non-pregnant nulliparous volunteers.

Antenatal bladder neck mobility is known to be associated with postpartum stress incontinence. Whether this represents a normal feature of pregnancy or a pathological process is unclear. Forty-eight nulliparous volunteers had perineal ultrasound scans to assess bladder neck mobility. Using previously defined cutoffs (for incontinence), 50% had increased linear movement and 39% increased angle of rotation. This suggests that bladder neck mobility is common in asymptomatic nulliparous women. Furthermore, it could represent a risk factor for stress incontinence after pregnancy and in the longer term.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Improving the diagnosis of genuine stress incontinence in symptomatic women with negative cough stress test: the Distal Urethral Electrical Conductance test (DUEC) revisited.

This retrospective descriptive study was performed to assess the practice of using the distal urethral electrical conductance (DUEC) test to objectively demonstrate urinary incontinence in symptomatic women with a negative cough stress test on examination. One hundred women had stable bladders on cystometry (CMG). Genuine stress incontinence (GSI) was diagnosed during CMG in 45 (45%). DUEC performed prior to cystometry had revealed stress incontinence in an additional 13 with negative CMG, thereby improving the diagnosis of GSI by 13%. The test detected urge incontinence in one (1%). The DUEC test improves the detection of stress incontinence. However, it should not be considered as an alternative to cystometry, but as an additional test when stress incontinence cannot be demonstrated clinically.

Cough↗
PubMed2000

Physical map of a conditionally dispensable chromosome in Nectria haematococca mating population VI and location of chromosome breakpoints.

Certain isolates of the plant pathogenic fungus Nectria haematococca mating population (MP) VI contain a 1.6-Mb conditionally dispensable (CD) chromosome carrying the phytoalexin detoxification genes MAK1 and PDA6-1. This chromosome is structurally unstable during sexual reproduction. As a first step in our analysis of the mechanisms underlying this chromosomal instability, hybridization between overlapping cosmid clones was used to construct a map of the MAK1 PDA6-1 chromosome. The map consists of 33 probes that are linked by 199 cosmid clones. The polymerase chain reaction and Southern analysis of N. haematococca MP VI DNA digested with infrequently cutting restriction enzymes were used to close gaps and order the hybridization-derived contigs. Hybridization to a probe extended from telomeric repeats was used to anchor the ends of the map to the actual chromosome ends. The resulting map is estimated to cover 95% of the MAK1 PDA6-1 chromosome and is composed of two ordered contigs. Thirty-eight percent of the clones in the minimal map are known to contain repeated DNA sequences. Three dispersed repeats were cloned during map construction; each is present in five to seven copies on the chromosome. The cosmid clones representing the map were probed with deleted forms of the CD chromosome and the results were integrated into the map. This allowed the identification of chromosome breakpoints and deletions.

Ascomycota↗
PubMed1997

Hospital drama.

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Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

Speech teaching for deaf children in the age of bilingual/bicultural programs: the role of tactile aids.

Three studies are summarized which show the potential value of tactile aids for the development of improved speech production skills by profoundly deaf children. The first study examined the use of a tactile display of high frequency speech energy (2-7 kHz). The results obtained showed greatly improved discrimination when the tactile display supplemented hearing aid use. In the second study an 18-year-old profoundly deaf man was provided with speech training using tactile aids to provide modeling and feedback. Recordings made pre- and post-training of the subject's productions of consonants in /aCa/ and simple sentences were played to panels of normal hearing listeners. The results showed large improvements in the post-training tokens. The final study outlines the results of speech training with tactile aids provided to a large group of deaf children.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1996

Close encounters in the liminal zone: experiments in imaginal communication part I.

The phenomenology of the experience of being in psychic contact with another person was explored in a series of observations using a novel dyadic interaction in imaginal space. Research participants working in pairs with eyes closed received instructions to imagine being in mental contact with one another for three minutes while they observed their internal experiences. Their reports indicated that the imagined contact was experienced as real, as intimate, and aroused the ambivalences usually associated with intimacy as well as phenomena suggestive of projective identification effects. This first part demonstrated that the liminal zone, or the transitional space between individuals, can be experimentally observed through the imagination. Part II of this report will present evidence that the experienced psychic contact was more than 'just imagination', and involved transpersonal interactions, including suggestions of synchronicity and telepathy.

Communication↗