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A form of torture which consists of beating the soles of the victim’s feet with a solid object, which disables the victim and minimises the risk of escape. The resultant soft tissue swelling can cause an intense compartmental syndrome resulting in necrosis

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To make way for Motorola Mobility, Falanga said showrooms, including giftware tenants and a design center are being relocated to vacant space in the building.

Google's huge move into Chicago's Mart no threat to NeoCon

Falanga A, Marchetti M, Vignoli A, Balducci D, Barbui T: Leukocyte-platelet interaction in patients with essential thrombocythemia and polycythcmia vera.

The association between gene polymorphisms and leukocytosis with thrombotic complications in patients with essential thrombocythemia and polycythemia vera / Esansiyel Trombositemi ve Polisitemia Verada Gen Polimofizimleri ve Lokositozun Trombotik Komplikasyonlar ile Iliskisi

The court rejected the defendants' argument that Falanga was justified in ignoring Klepeis' rollover request because it was not in the proper form, noting that the plan does not require formal claims for participants to receive benefits.

Trendspotting

Falanga says the idea for the Cleveland Medical Mart came from Delos Cosgrove, M.

Market for medical marts heats up; one-stop shopping for devices and equipment could he a reality by 2013

Falanga V, Schachner LA, Rae V, Ceballos PI, Gonzalez A, Liang G, Banks R.

Evaluation of dermatologic emergency patients: an unicentral prospective clinical study/Acil dermatoloji hastalarinin degerlendirilmesi: tek merkezli prospektif bir klinik calisma

During my interviews for this month's cover story on the LEED-EB O&M certification of the world's largest commercial building--The Merchandise Mart in Chicago (beginning on page 46)--Mark Falanga, senior vice president at Merchandise Mart Properties Inc.

The 'Life-Cycle' of sustainability

Vincent Falanga, chairman of dermatology and skin surgery at the Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, R.

Stem cells hold hope for genetic skin diseases

Kirsner R, Falanga V, Kerdel F, Katz M, Eaglstein W.

Tratamiento de las ulceras cronicas en los miembros inferiores con un equivalente cutaneo autologo y desbridacion con larvas de Lucilia sp. (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Reporte de un caso

has consulted Marie-Dominique Chenu, Thomas Deman, Anthony Falanga, Josef Fuchs, Palemon Glorieux, Odon Lottin, Pierre Mandonnet, Servais Pinckaers, A.

By Knowledge and By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas

We have had many years without peace, without rights in this country," explained Sidonie Swana Falanga, president of an association of Congolese Protestant women theologians.

Congo's cautious hope: churches play a positive role in the first democratic elections in more than 40 years

By combining Integral and Rossi observations, a European team led by Maurizio Falanga (Atomic Energy Commission, Saclay, France) determined that the millisecond pulsar IGR J00291+5934 in Cassiopeia has a companion with perhaps as little as 40 Jupiter masses.

Extreme pulsars

0 kg Nudelman 9M17P Skorpion member of the Falanga (AT-2) series, which has a range of 2.