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Empirical variance is a fundamental concept widely used in data management and data analytics, e.g., query optimization, approximate query processing, and feature selection. A direct solution to derive the empirical variance is scanning the whole data table, which is expensive when the data size is huge. Hence, most cu... |
The Green Technology Innovation (GTI) is an effective way to deal with the problems of ecological environment. Taking the New Energy Vehicle (NEV) technology as an example, it has been explored that the roles of the government, enterprises, the public, universities and research institutions in the green technology inno... |
The present document focuses on the recent searches for the existence of heavy particles beyond the Standard Model at LHCb, exploiting its unique forward acceptance, high-precision tracking and excellent particle identification. Searches for long-lived particles decaying into jet pairs or semileptonically, together with... |
Based on the characteristics that it is difficult to extract weak fault signals of rolling bearings against the strong noise background, this paper proposes a new method of rolling bearing fault diagnosis based on minimum entropy deconvolution and 1.5-dimensional Teager energy spectrum. Firstly, minimum entropy deconvo... |
The rapid increase of wealth inequality in the past few decades is one of the most important social and economic issues of our time. The origin of the current surge and its possible control are still debatable. Here we introduce a nonlinear simplified model inspired by the logistic growth model to describe the dynamics... |
In this work a Single-Stage Multi-Product system managed using kanban board has been analyzed. Specifically, the aim is to build experimental curves representing the influence of specific production parameters of a manufacturing plant on designing a Supermarket Pull Kanban, in order to obtain a valuable tool to support... |
This essay explores the genealogical overlap between the wall and the screen by tracing the material and discursive formation of China’s Great Firewall, a geoblocking system for network censorship, to the cultural history of ping (screen).The censoring effect of the Great Firewall is described in Chinese as pingbi, wit... |
The appraisal right in terms of section 164 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 has been applicable to fundamental transactions undertaken by companies for a number of years. The first two aims of this article are first to provide an overview of the appraisal right, and second to revisit certain concerns that were raised a... |
Pollen as one of the most important supplementary food benefits the generalist predators in many aspects. However, little is known about the performance of generalist predators with type IV lifestyle when they are reared continuously on prey supplemented with pollen for many generations. In this study, the life history... |
The aim of this study is to explore user acceptance of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous vehicles on a highway through the use of an interactive simulator. Participants were asked to experience driving modes with three different levels of autonomy and complete questionnaires with items selected from traditional and ... |
Landscape architects use maps, schemes, diagrams, models, to describe and design territories, as conceptual and visual tools of knowledge. But do these tools sufficiently depict the complexity of landscapes? Plans and the diverse kind of maps used by landscape architects depict land surfaces and few are dealing with th... |
Sixty-nine specimens from Tripterygium Wilfordii Hook.f. (TWH) users were investigated by electron microscopy. No macrophages were demonstrated in the 21 specimens collected prior to the administration of TWH. However, it was found in 23 out of the 48 semen specimens obtained following the TWH administration. The macro... |
Prednisone treatment for infertility and subsequent pregnancy maintenance in humans resulted in a significant decrease in the birth weight of full-term infants and a marked increase in the percentage of newborn infants weighing 2500 grams or less, that is, "light for dates" in comparison to control offspring. A paralle... |
In the present paper we offer a detailed comparison of hospital costs between California and New York and two Canadian provinces (Ontario and British Columbia) in 1981 and 1985. We find that production technologies differ significantly between the two countries and between California and New York. Marginal costs and th... |
Limb apraxia, a disorder of skilled action not consequent on primary motor or sensory deficits, has traditionally been defined according to errors patients make on neuropsychological tasks. Previous models of the disorder have failed to provide a unified account of patients deficits, due to heterogeneity in the patient... |
Glucocorticoids (GCs) have drawn great concern due to widespread contamination in the environment and application in treating COVID-19. This work aimed to compare the performance of UVA/chlorination and ozonation on GC removal in terms of removal efficiency, degradation pathway, and toxicity change, with fluocinolone a... |
Transfer learning is a new learning paradigm, in which, besides the training data for the targeted learning task, data that are related to the task (often under a different distribution) are also employed to help train a better learner. For example, out-dated data can be used as such related data. In this paper, we pro... |
In this paper the concept of weak-integrity is introduced as a new measure of the stability of a graph G and it is defined as Iw(G) = min S⊂V (G) {|S| +me(G− S)}, where me(G− S) denotes the number of edges of a largest component of G-S. We investigate the weak-integrity of trees and compute the weak-integrity of a bino... |
The quenching of luminescence of bacterial luciferase from Photobacterium fischeri by non-specific electron acceptors and inhibitors of dehydrogenases was studied. The inhibition of the luminescent reaction obeys the non-competitive mechanism with NADH, FMN and aliphatic aldehyde. The inhibitors compete with cytochrome... |
Chronic rhinitis is the manifestation of a heterogeneous group of disease entities and often proves difficult to manage successfully. We present the investigations of the mucociliary system in 40 patients with mucoid rhinorrhoea as their principal symptom of whom 20 had pan respiratory disease. The saccharin clearance ... |
Bifrontal decompressive craniectomy has been used on an ad hoc basis for the treatment of post-traumatic intracranial hypertension for more than thirty years. In this observational study we report the clinical outcome and physiological effects of the procedure in a series of 26 patients with refractory intracranial hyp... |
Interlingual and intercultural communication in the form of oral and written translation is as old as mankind. Only in the past 40 years has it achieved recognition as a profession on an international scale: the Fédéeration Internationale dee Traduoteurs (FIT), which today embraces 49 national associations, was founded... |
A 9 GHz FET DRO (dielectric resonator oscillator) is reported which exhibits state-of-the-art oscillator performance in several ways. The merit of the oscillator was determined by measuring the loaded quality factor, single sideband phase noise, and frequency stability of the device. Additionally, the residual phase no... |
Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), a ligand for endothelial differentiation gene family proteins, is one of the most potent signal mediators released from activated platelets. Here, we report that S1P induces membrane ruffling of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) via the vascular endothelial growth factor rec... |
This paper is an overview of the issues surrounding employee drug testing programs as they apply to the Australian workplace. Drug testing may be seen within a historical context of control over workers. Its practice is most prevalent in the USA, but it is also occurring in Australia, Canada and England. It is undeniab... |
The technology shrinkage and the increased demand for high storage memory devices in today’s system on-chips (SoCs) has been the challenges to the designers not only in the design cycle but also to the test engineers in testing these memory devices against the permanent faults, intermittent and soft errors. Around 90% ... |
From the time they enter kinder garten until they complete high school, students are subjected to an increasing number of tests and eval uations. Although most students face these situations with normal amounts of nervousness, some students do not cope well in testing situations and expe rience moderate to severe anxie... |
In this paper, we discuss the ordering properties of sample ranges arising from multiple-outlier exponential and proportional hazard rate (PHR) models. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, sufficient conditions on the parameter vectors are provided for the reversed hazard rate order and the usual stochastic ord... |
The protective antigen of Bacillus anthracis is the major protective immunogen in the current human vaccine. A heat-inducible protective antigen expression system was constructed based on a derivative of Bacillus subtilis phage phi 105. The recombinant protein produced by this system protected immunised animals against... |
The insufficient temporal resolution of imaging devices has made the analysis of very fast movements, such as those required to measure active muscle-tendon unit stiffness, difficult. Thus the relative contributions of tendon, aponeurosis, and fascicle to muscle-tendon unit compliance remain to be determined. The prese... |
Real-time decoders for turbo codes used in practical applications such as in the WCDMA (UMTS) 3GPP cellular standard are likely to be implemented using fixed-point arithmetic. Requirements for efficient turbo decoders include low-complexity algorithms and small word sizes. The implementation of such a decoder using a m... |
Primary SS (pSS) is a multi-system autoimmune disease with a prevalence and health economic impact that are comparable with RA. However, pSS research has been relatively poorly supported. The creation of a large cohort of clinically well-characterized pSS patients will provide a catalyst and valuable resources to promo... |
Biomass transformation to fuel and platform chemicals is of an immense interest in the world. The thermochemical data for various reactions involved during biomass transformations to fuel components, fuels and platform chemicals has been investigated using highly accurate Gaussian-4 (G-4) method. Glucose to 5-hydroxyme... |
Normal and 21-trisomic lymphocytes isolated from whole blood were cultivated with phytohemagglutinin (PHA) for 21 hours and labeled with 3H-uridine. Polysomes were then extracted, using magnesium precipitation. The samples of polysome rRNA were disc-electrophoresed, and the specific activity of the 28S-RNA was determin... |
The Indian banking system was initially thought to be insulated from the global financial crisis owing to heavy public ownership and cautious management. It was thus a surprise when some banks experienced a deposit flight, as depositors shifted their money toward government-owned banks and specifically toward the State... |
Kuna women’s making and using molakana, the female blouses that have long intrigued visitors and collectors, provide evidence for discussing how the life cycle of persons and things function as aspects of one another. Kept in the main world museums and collected by private individuals, molakana have become famous world... |
People with epilepsy are at increased risk for mental health comorbidities. Machine‐learning methods based on spoken language can detect suicidality in adults. This study's purpose was to use spoken words to create machine‐learning classifiers that identify current or lifetime history of comorbid psychiatric conditions... |
In this paper, a novel dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) design for ultrawideband (UWB) applications is proposed. A hybrid T-shaped DRA is excited by a conformal trapezoidal shaped patch feeding mechanism. It is observed that by introduction of air gap and use of two different DRA materials, Q-factor can be reduced an... |
The effects of primary amino groups' introduction treated by ammonia plasma on linear low-density polyethylene (L-LDPE) were investigated. The introduction of the primary amino groups on the L-LDPE surface was carried out by three kinds of approaches. These approaches were the use of conventional ammonia plasma, plasma... |
AbstractIn addition to its role as a carrier of genetic information, DNA has been recognized as a construction material for the assembly of different objects and structural arrangements with nanoscale features. As a result of DNA’s self-recognition properties (based on the specific base-pairing of G-C and T-A), monolay... |
Radiological Outcomes of Distal Radius Fractures Managed with 2.7mm Volar Locking Plate Fixation-A Retrospective Analysis. |
INTRODUCTION |
Distal radius fractures accounts for around 15% of all fractures diagnosed and treated in the emergency rooms. These fractures usually result secondary to high velocity injury such as a motor vehicle accident or fall on an out stretched hand. In the elderly, it is a common fragility fracture. Volar Locking Compression ... |
AIM |
To measure the radiological outcomes in patients with displaced distal radius fractures managed with 2.7 mm volar LCP fixation using Sarmiento's Modification of Lindstorm Criteria. |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
A retrospective study was conducted in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Kasturba Medical College Allied Hospitals, Mangalore from May 2014 to July 2016. All displaced distal radius fractures of skeletally mature patients who underwent volar locking plate fixation between May 2014 to July 2016 and follow up with... |
RESULTS |
Post operative check X-rays were analysed at immediate post operative, six weeks and three months. The mean immediate post operative radial shortening, decrease in radial deviation and loss of palmar tilt were 4.08±2.23, 5.91±4.01and 4.11±3.29 respectively. The corresponding values at last follow up were 4.71±2.31, 7.9... |
CONCLUSION |
Use of 2.7 mm volar LCP showed good to excellent post operative radiological outcomes in majority of the cases. The fracture reduction achieved in the immediate post operative period is maintained throughout the follow up duration.Morphogenesis of retinoic acid-induced postaxial polydactyly in mice. |
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