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The study included six patients (5 males, 1 female; mean age 63.3 years; range 53 to 70 years) who were operated on for isolated post-traumatic subscapularis ruptures. The mean interval between the development of symptoms due to trauma and operation was 4.3 months (range 1 to 9 months). Mechanism of injury, complaints,... |
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The mean UCLA score was 11.3 (range 9 to 14) preoperatively. It increased to 25.8 (range 12 to 31) postoperatively (p<0.05). The results were good in four patients, fair in one patient, and poor in one patient. Magnetic resonance images obtained in five patients at the final follow-up showed total rupture in the patien... |
CONCLUSION |
A careful clinical examination may enable the diagnosis of subscapularis tendon ruptures. Magnetic resonance imaging may provide additional information. In most patients, the repair of the tendon is possible by proper protection of the axillary nerve and appropriate mobilization.Practical Aspects of Foam-Assisted SAGD |
Steam-foam has been used extensively in field trials to improve steam conformance, both for cyclic steam injection and steam flood. It is a proven process and very useful lessons can be drawn from these field trials to plan new projects. However, foam has not yet been used to improve SAGD (Steam-Assisted Gravity Drain... |
After a thorough description of the main mechanisms involved in these processes (steam-foam for cyclic steam injection and steam flood, as well as foam for SAGD), this paper proposes to review the differences between the various processes and their implications for the design and implementation of FA-SAGD. Finally, ba... |
By definition, the driving mechanism of SAGD relies on gravity and involves the use of a pair of horizontal wells drilled a few meters apart, one on top of the other. This is completely different from foam applications with both cyclic steam injection and steam flood, which are typically conducted with vertical wells;... |
This study will provide useful physical considerations on the steam-foam process along with detailed guidelines for the implementation of the Foam-Assisted SAGD process in the field. It will be useful for engineers that are considering foam to improve the performances of SAGD by targeting a reduction of the steam cons... |
This paper shows that the standard result according to which labour-managed (LM) firms produce a lower amount of output, as compared with profit-maximizing firms, is reversed if production per se gives utility and the workers' membership of LM firms is set before market decisions. Under the same hypotheses, the LM firm... |
Agricultural holding constitute it self as a form of organization, existent and in operation of the production process from agriculture. Organization and operation of agricultural holdings can be realized under various forms, from the easiest way - family farms, to private companies, family businesses and even private ... |
One of the main breeding traits in mink breeding is body size. The aim of the work was to study the morphometric parameters of the chest of minks of some genotypes and their relationship with the breeding parameters. Breed differences in body measurements and the mass of internal organs in male minks were revealed. The... |
The authors report a case of Sjögren's syndrome associated with Raynaud phenomenon and mixed IgM-IgG cryoglobulinaemia. Three years after the onset of this association:--Immunoelectrophoresis of the serum showed a monoclonal IgM (lambda) protein, --the level of the mixed IgM-IgG cryoglobulinaemia had increased from 28 ... |
The brown seaweed Undaria pinnatifida (Harvey) Suringar produced potent inhibition of erythematous inflammation assessed using digital photo analysis. The analysis technique was validated by laser speckle flowgraphy and blood vessel contraction. The methanol extract suppressed erythema by 50% when applied within 1 h be... |
Due to the increased resolution capability of modern sensors, the assumption that the received measurement originated from a point source may be invalid. Thus extended target tracking becomes more and more important in many practical scenarios. A novel extended target model has been proposed that describes the target a... |
Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPSs) have a large impact on the quality of life of patients with dementia. A few studies have compared neuropsychiatric disturbances between dementia subtypes, but the results were conflicting. In the present study, we investigated whether the prevalence of NPSs differs between Alzheimer's d... |
The design, installation, and operation of a lightweight linerboard digital drive system are reviewed. Electronic operator stations and a data highway linking the operator stations, drive sections and master director were used. A supervisory system providing sectional status as well as a diagnostic message display was ... |
Motivated by new observations of solar surface ow patterns of mesogranulation, theoretical computations of the horizontal divergence-vorticity correlation are presented. Because of its close relation to the helicity in rotating turbulence such observations and discussions are of particular importance for the convention... |
Abstract: Endogenous synaptic vesicle α‐and β‐tubulin were shown to be the major substrates for a Ca2+‐calmodulin‐regulated protein kinase system in enriched synaptic vesicle preparations from rat cortex as determined by two‐dimensional gel electrophoresis and peptide mapping. The activation of this endogenous tubulin ... |
Background Acute inflammatory reactions cause neuronal damage in cerebral ischemia–reperfusion. Urinary trypsin inhibitor (UTI), a serine protease inhibitor, is cytoprotective against ischemia–reperfusion injury in the liver, intestine, kidney, heart, and lung through its antiinflammatory activity. Neuroprotective acti... |
A Bessel-type asymptotic expansion is established for the monic polynomials πn(x) that are orthogonal with respect to the modified Jacobi weight , x∈(−1,1), where α, β>−1 and h(x) is real analytic and strictly positive on [−1,1]. This expansion holds uniformly in a region containing the neighbourhood of the critical va... |
Acupuncture (a treatment method through stimulation with needles of specific treatment points aimed at energy pathways, the meridians, to bring the body back into balance) has been part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for over 2000 years now. Modern medical acupuncturists trained in the West understand and use ac... |
Using information from the literature on both for-profit industrial corporations and nonprofit community hospitals, a path model is constructed to show the effect of the state on CEO tenure at state-owned university hospitals. Results indicate that CEOs' lack of managerial influence and control over competition adverse... |
Prediction of the 3D structure greatly benefits from the information related to secondary structure, solvent accessibility, and nonlocal contacts that stabilize a protein's structure. We address the problem of β-sheet prediction defined as the prediction of β-strand pairings, interaction types (parallel or antiparallel... |
In this paper, a Non-Uniform Sampling (NUS) technique for down-conversion stage in a multistandard radio receiver is proposed. For both narrowband and wideband standard processing, NUS promises relaxing system design constraints, decreasing the sampling frequency as well as reducing power consumption. A non-uniform clo... |
Between 1967 and 1971, 280,000 US military personnel visited Sydney on ‘Rest and Recreation’ (R&R) leave from the conflict in Vietnam. During the period in which the R&R program was being negotiated, Australian authorities, along with correspondents to daily newspapers, worried that the presence of large numbers of ‘ca... |
The prime objective of the present paper is to propose a bio-inspired robust controller to control the CNC system. The control objective is to design fuzzy controller optimizing its gains using genetic algorithm. The value of these gains has been evaluated by the genetic algorithm using different objective functions as... |
When a Jehovah's Witness refuses to consent to needed medical treatment on religious grounds, a hospital's treatment team confronts a variety of ethical, legal, and medical dilemmas. This article explores the background and issues relating to cases in which Jehovah's Witnesses have refused treatment and discusses how t... |
ABSTRACT We offer a novel argument to explain how the use of terrorist violence is affected by the restrictions that governments place on opposition participation in elections. Opposition actors often decide whether and how to participate in elections. Governments influence these decisions by controlling who can contes... |
Patients with hereditary spherocytosis and b-Thalassemia are characterized by the increased risk of thrombosis. The early manifestation of thrombotic complications can occur even in childhood especially after surgery. Hypercoagulability can be associated with endothelial dysfunction. The aim of this study was to invest... |
Atherosclerotic plaque accumulation at the carotid artery bifurcation is a leading cause of stroke. Stroke symptoms occur when the atherosclerotic plaque ruptures and forms thrombus, causing material to embolize into the cerebral circulation. For years, there has been speculation that increased expression of matrix met... |
The presence and distribution of the astrocytic marker protein GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein) in the pituitaries of several mammalian as well as of some submammalian vertebrates were examined immunohistochemically. Our study revealed that GFAP-immunoreactive pituicytes, probably reflecting the presence of the f... |
The Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC) has been in existence since 1963. RSICC collects, organizes, evaluates and disseminates technical information (software and nuclear data) involving the transport of neutral and charged particle radiation, and shielding and protection from the radiation assoc... |
its own security and not be afraid of a mutual defence clause. The contributors to this volume provide a good snapshot of current EU thinking on ESDP. Regrettably there is little evidence of radical thinking about European security and defence. For example, no one raises the increasingly irrelevant national defence rev... |
A compositional sugar analysis was carried out on lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Shigella sonnei form II in which a plasmid with cloned form I antigen genes had been introduced. The recipient form II strains contained galactose, glucose, heptose, glucosamine, and 2‐keto‐3‐deoxyoctonic acid (KDO) (2: 3: 1: 2: 2) in its L... |
Abstract Abstract The panpipe is a musical instrument composed of end-blown tubes of different lengths tied together. They can be traced back to the Neolithic, and they have been found at prehistoric sites in China, Europe and South America. Panpipes display substantial variation in space and time across functional and... |
The present paper is focused on the integration of renewable sources and storage systems in the household sector with a special attention to the adoption of home smart charging infrastructures for electric vehicles. The proposed mathematical model can be used to optimally design and daily manage a nanogrid composed of ... |
Several methods have been proposed to combine the forecasting results into single forecast namely the simple averaging, weighted average on validation performance, or non-parametric combination schemas. These methods use fixed combination of individual forecast to get the final forecast result. In this paper, quite dif... |
OBJECTIVES: To study whether sewage workers are exposed to genotoxic substances. An increased risk of cancers among sewage workers has been noted. If this increased risk is due to an exposure to genotoxic agents, primarily DNA damage could be used as a biological marker of exposure. METHODS: In a cross sectional study,... |
The recent intriguing suggestion of Anisovich, Gerasjuta, Dakhno, and Kobrinsky concerning the effect of the logarithmic singularity in the reaction e/sup +/e/sup -/..--> pi../sup +/..pi../sup -/..gamma.. via an intermediate triangle graph involving ..omega../sup 0/..pi../sup 0/ (and ..pi../sup 0/) is analyzed further ... |
Hayduk and Glaser (2000) asserted that the most commonly used point estimate of the Root Mean Square Error of Approximation index of fit (Steiger & Lind, 1980) has two significant problems: (a) The frequently cited target value of. 05 is not a stable target, but a "sample size adjustment"; and (b) the truncated point e... |
Background and Aims To improve our understanding of newborn feeding pathophysiology at the molecular level, our laboratory studies transcripts in neonatal saliva. Previously, we used whole transcriptome microarrays. Here, we tested the hypothesis that sequencing of RNA would provide additional and more specific informa... |
The evolution of universities in Australia is nothing new;however, a range of social and economic pressures have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These pressures are leading to changes, for example greater use of electronic media for teaching, which will affect the delivery of teaching programs. Effects on th... |
In order to assess slope stability owing to rainfall, the availability of an effective and simple-to-use methodology, relating directly rain to eventual landslide triggering, is undoubtedly useful. To this purpose, a simplified method aimed to the prediction of rainfall-induced shallow landslides in unsaturated soils i... |
In this study, we evaluated affective components of the learning processes of students after being exposed to a virtual geology field trip of the Baengnyeong Island, South Korea. Changes in students’ cognition of and interest in science and scientific attitude were measured before and after exposure to the virtual fiel... |
Summary form only given. Ultrawideband (UWB) radio, sometimes referred to as impulse radio or short pulse radio, has a considerable amount of bandwidth and a small amount of power available under the new FCC regulations that permit its use. This paper illustrates the typical indoor UWB channel with propagation measurem... |
The main nutritional deficiencies during childhood, namely anemia and malnutrition, are predominantly related to socio-economic factors. Thus, as the Bolsa Família Program (BFP) is the main policy to combat poverty, it is expected that it will have an impact on child nutrition. The aim was to analyze the differences in... |
Since entering the global agenda in the mid-1990s, adaptation to climate change has moved from being considered a largely technical and environmental issue to one rooted in more social and economic circumstances of vulnerable populations. However, research into adaptation has been scarce in terms of analysing power and... |
Smart agriculture has an emerged concept by using IoT sensors capable of providing various information about their field condition and conducting environmental monitoring to improve the yield of efficient crops. This research aims to develop a microclimate monitoring system in a closed house. The microclimate being mon... |
Precongestion notification (PCN) is a packet-marking technique for IP networks to notify egress nodes of a so-called PCN domain whether the traffic rate on some links exceeds certain configurable bounds. This feedback is used by decision points for admission control (AC) to block new flows when the traffic load is alre... |
ABSTRACT The potential chemopreventive role of the hydroalcoholic leaf extract of Glycosmis pentaphylla Correa (Rutaceae) has been assessed on the hepatic levels of detoxification system enzymes [Phase I, Cytochrome P450 (Cyt P450) and Cytochrome b5 (Cyt b5) and Phase II, glutathione S-transferase (GST)] and anti-oxida... |
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