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Our results suggest that the short CAM walker boot more effectively offloads the fifth metatarsal during common gait activities than a postoperative sandal or a standard athletic shoe. A short CAM walker boot may be a beneficial rehabilitative tool for patients undergoing rehabilitation after treatment of Jones fractures and other base of fifth metatarsal fractures.

We present results from Inverse photoemission spectroscopy in the isochromat mode, with angular resolution, from the clean Au (113)

We report measurements of the topography of a gold film deposited on a mica substrate using scanning tunneling microscope ͑STM͒, and measurements of the conductivity of the film performed between 4 and 300 K. From images obtained with the STM running in air in the constant current mode of a gold sample 70-nm-thick deposited under UHV on a mica substrate preheated to 300°C, we compute the average autocorrelation function ͑ACF͒ that characterizes the surface of the film in the scale of 10ϫ10 nm 2 , and determine by least-squares fitting the parameters ␦ ͑rms. amplitude͒ and ͑lateral correlation length͒ corresponding to an exponential that best describes the average ACF data. Using an exponential representation of the ACF, the parameters ␦ and determined from STM measurements, and a modified version of the theory of Sheng, Xing, and Wang recently proposed ͓R. C. Munoz et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 11, L299 ͑1999͔͒, we calculate the temperature dependence of the bulk resistivity 0 (T) and of the increase in resistivity ⌬(T)ϭ(T)Ϫ 0 (T) induced by electron-surface scattering on this film. The result is that 1Ϫ/ 0 ϭ1Ϫ 0 /ϭ⌬/ amounts to about 2.6% at 300 K, and increases linearly with increasing mean free path, to about 10.5% at 4 K. The increase in resitivity ⌬ turns out to be weakly temperature dependent.

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