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Noticing that a willow tree cut down last year had resisted death, sending up dozens of shoots from its stump, I cut and forced those too.
Information regarding post-acute care dispositions, rehabilitation, readmissions for debridement and major stump revisions, and use of prosthetic devises and durable medical equipment were obtained from the OCCP database, provider surveys and publications [ 77 78 79 ] . The increase in event cost from first ($24,583) to second ($26,077) represents a shift to a higher anatomical, and thus, more costly level of amputation for the second amputation as noted in the Rochester study [ 76 ] .
The WP describes Clinton's trip to China, continuing today with a community leaders' roundtable in Shanghai and an appearance on a radio call-in show(wonder how long the delay is), as an "experiment in diplomacy as personal performance," referring to the familiar campaign stump style Clinton used in two talks on Chinese national television.
The "inhibitory" activity of myelin may actually serve to promote axonal growth in an intact fiber tract (such as the distal stump of the injured spinal cord) by restricting this growth to an orientation that is parallel to the fiber tract while discouraging local meandering and collateral sprouting.
' Ruble (Russia), which literally means `stump,' might have denoted a piece cut from a silver bar.