When new talent scores: The impact of human capital and the team socialization context on newcomer performance in professional sports teams.

This study integrates research on newcomer socialization and work teams to examine how the team environment facilitates or hinders the translation of human capital into newcomer performance in professional sports teams. Using large, multiyear and multilevel data from the top five European professional football leagues, we examine how individual-level newcomer human capital and the team-level characteristics (prior team performance, number of newcomers) influence individual newcomer performance during two different socialization contexts (when more vs. less time for socialization is provided).

Anxiety in late adulthood: Associations with gender, education, and physical and cognitive functioning.

Anxiety is common in late adulthood and can complicate adjustment in several areas. This study used data from 2 measurement points of a representative European longitudinal study (Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) with a large sample size (N = 28,326) and a broad age range (45-90) to examine age effects on cross-sectional mean levels of anxiety as well as longitudinal mean-level changes over 2 years with respect to gender, education, and changes in physical and cognitive functioning. Furthermore, we analyzed generalizability of the findings for different European countries.

Efficacy of the Alexander Technique in treating chronic non-specific neck pain: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To test the efficacy of the Alexander Technique, local heat and guided imagery on pain and quality of life in patients with chronic non-specific neck pain.

Design: A randomized controlled trial with 3 parallel groups was conducted.

Setting: Outpatient clinic, Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine.

[Magnetic resonance tomography using gadolinium-DTPA in the diskectomy syndrome--a reliable method of identifying a recurrent prolapse in scar tissue].

The non invasive diagnostic possibilities of MR have resulted in better diagnosis of degenerative spinal diseases. Twenty-one patients with failed back surgery syndrome (postdiscectomy syndrome) were studied to evaluate the possibility of 1-Tesla magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with gadolinium diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) in differentiating post operative scar tissue from recurrent disc herniation. The enhanced MR studies correctly depicted the character of abnormal epidural tissue in all patients.

MR imaging of cerebral tumors: state of the art and work in progress.

MR imaging of the brain has made tremendous progress during the last years. This technique is generally superior to computed tomography (CT) in brain tumors, due to its capability for direct imagining in various planes and its high tissue contrast. Moreover, the detectability and differentiation of extraaxial tumors, previously the domain of CT, has been improved with paramagnetic contrast agents (PCA).