... 47.3% and 69.0%, and the interspace angle at final follow-up were 4.3° ± 4.4° and 3.4° ± 3.4° While in the 14 King type II patients and the King type IV patients with combined anterior and posterior ... Harrington, Dwyer, and Zielke instrumentation Spine 1989, 14:275-280 Ginsburg HH, Goldstein L, Haake PW, Perkins S, Gilbert K: Longitudinal study of back pain in postoperative idiopathic scoliosis: ... single anterior approach;(5)at least months follow-up Measuring the standing anteroposterior(AP) film, lateral film, supine Bending films of the full spine preoperatively and the standing AP and...
... They found that vertebral wedging was more prominent in the frontal plane, and there was minimal wedging in the sagittal plane Whether the vertebral wedging in the frontal plane in AIS is the primary ... fixed in paraffin wax The embedded blocks were sectioned into 4–5 um slides and prepared for the staining of hematoxylin & eosin, immunohistochemistry, andin situ Cell Death Detection Hematoxylin ... years old) Standing long cassette anteroposterior and lateral radiographs were taken and evaluated The Cobb angle, apex vertical translation(AVT), apex vertebralrotationand disc wedging angle( DWA)...
... function in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis? A meta-analysis Spine 1993, 18(11):1556-1559 Shneerson JM, Edgar MA: Cardiac and respiratory function before and after spinal fusion inadolescentidiopathic ... idiopathic scoliosis: a review of the evidence Int J Epidemiol 1982, 11(2):101-111 Gagnon S, Jodoin A, Martin R: Pulmonary function test study and after spinal fusion in young idiopathicscoliosis Spine ... Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2007, 2:20 Background Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis (AIS) is the most common form of idiopathic scoliosis, typically affecting growing adolescent girls, 10–16...
... effectiveness in terms of intermediate objectives and changes in predisposing, enabling, and reinforcing factors Measures change in terms of overall objectives and changes in health and social benefits ... stability in seating and standing by correction of pelvic obliquity and truck instability [49] However, there is a strong association between back pain and smoking in people with scoliosis suggesting ... PRECEDE stands for "predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling factors in educational diagnosis and evaluation." PROCEED stands for "policy, regulatory, and organizational constructs in education and...
... presented with a devastating injury involving her dominant limb She was referred because of neck pain and brachial plexus palsy The brachial plexus injury dominated the clinical picture There was ... during blunt neck trauma are, V2 (inside the transverse foramina) and the V3 (between the C1 and the base of the skull) [7] The latter is usually injured in minor trauma Clay Cothren et al [8] in ... concluded that the following cervical spine injury patterns mandate screening for blunt cerebro-vascular injury; fractures extending into the transverse processes, subluxations, and fractures of the...
... 8.3% and 4.6% (men), respectively, for clinical vertebral fractures and forearm fractures in Sweden [32], 3.1% and 16.6% (women) or 1.2% and 2.9% (men) in the UK [33], and 9.6% (spine) and 13.3% ... maintained at the Italian Ministry of Health, concerning the years of our survey (2004 through 2006) In this archive, information concerning all hospitalizations occurring in Italian public and ... 100 inhabitants has been estimated up to 1.53 in men aged older than 65 years and up to 3.94 in women of the same age group The incidence per 100 inhabitants reached 2.35 and 4.67 in men and...
... Chapters and deal with the dynamics of cylinders inaxial flow: isolated cylinders in unconfined or confined flow in Chapter 8, and cylinders in clusters in Chapter The stability and turbulence-induced ... stigmatizes it and, in the minds of some, brands it as being ‘useless’ Yet, some of the highest achievements of the human mind in science (including medical and engineering science) have indeed been ... initial and adjoint eigenfunctions, viz (2.60) By introducing I ] N = x x , ( t ) q , ( t ) into equation (2.52), then muItiplying by $r(t) and integrating over 9, system is decoupled in a single...
... (recommending increasing competition among accounting firms and suggesting rotation as a means of doing so); EC Green Paper at 16 (stating that not only might mandatory rotation increase auditor independence, ... Prencipe, and M Trombetta, Auditor Tenure and Auditor Change: Does Mandatory Rotation Really Improve Audit Quality?, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting and Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting, ... firms bring to the clients in certain industries," and noted that "[l]arge accounting firms are not fungible and there can be valid market-driven reasons, such as expertise in a certain industry,...
... greater in weight bearing bones (5.1% at lumbar spine and 2.5% at femoral neck) that non-weight bearing non-dominant distal radius (0.9% in tBMD, 0.2% in iBMD, and 0.1% in cBMD) This finding was ... spine or hip BMD at baseline and its changes compared between two study groups Table summarizes the baseline BMD and its changes at and 12 months measured at spine and femoral neck by DXA and ... Osteoporo Int 1995, 5(3):150-5 Plotkin LI, Weinstein RS, Parfitt AM, Roberson PK, Manolagas SC, Bellido T: Prevention of osteocyte and osteoblast apoptosis by bisphosphonates and calcitonin J Clin Invest...
... Park Road, Auckland, New Zealand 2Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand Authors’ contributions MB participated in the design of ... Engineering Science at The University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand HC is an Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland, ... study group andin the comparison group, all three repeated measurements were within a two degree range, indicating acceptable intraobserver measure reliability The mean Bohler’s angleand the mean...
... Park Road, Auckland, New Zealand 2Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland, Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand Authors’ contributions MB participated in the design of ... Engineering Science at The University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand HC is an Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics at Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland, ... study group andin the comparison group, all three repeated measurements were within a two degree range, indicating acceptable intraobserver measure reliability The mean Bohler’s angleand the mean...
... Chapters and deal with the dynamics of cylinders inaxial flow: isolated cylinders in unconfined or confined flow in Chapter 8, and cylinders in clusters in Chapter The stability and turbulence-induced ... stigmatizes it and, in the minds of some, brands it as being ‘useless’ Yet, some of the highest achievements of the human mind in science (including medical and engineering science) have indeed been ... initial and adjoint eigenfunctions, viz (2.60) By introducing I ] N = x x , ( t ) q , ( t ) into equation (2.52), then muItiplying by $r(t) and integrating over 9, system is decoupled in a single...
... contributors in writing the manuscript KIR performed radiographs and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript CK and FH have been involved in revising the manuscript critically for important intellectual ... bleeding combined with moderate intracranial swelling without any signs of incarceration of the brain stem Evaluation of the vascular status confirmed the initial finding of retrograde filling ... Allal A: Imaging of the larynx and hypopharynx Eur J Radiol 2008, 66:460-479 Juutilainen M, Vintturi J, Robinson S, Back L, Lehtonen H, Makitie AA: Laryngeal fractures: clinical findings and considerations...
... contributions GCT performed the surgeries, collected and interpreted patient data, and was involved in drafting the manuscript LEM and JEB interpreted patient data and were involved in drafting ... removal of the lamina and pars interarticularis or indirectly by distraction of the spinal interspace or reduction of spondylolisthesis or both [9-11] The advent of minimally invasive access techniques ... using a percutaneous pedicle screw system allows the placement of an anterior axial rod, which in turn can further distract the interspace and indirectly decompress the neuroforamina This minimally...
... reduction from rotating auditing firms may be minimal The GAO decided against requiring firm rotationin part due to a question concerning whether other provisions of SOX (such as mandating minimal thresholds ... an internal control evaluation opinion indicating that it agreed with management’s conclusion on internal control [Auditor Rotation Manipulation, described in ‘‘Auditor Rotation ’ subsection] In ... Governanceb Rotationc Interactiond Error a One-tailed tests for main effect of auditor rotation, two-tailed for interaction See Table See Table d Joint or synergistic in uence of governance and rotation...
... marching and singing in the intention of Vinamilk was to lay stress on the slogan they need customer understand In my investigate, 34% of people like this image, they thought it was creative and ... between brands, with heavy emphasis on building recall of a brand name and creating a favorable attitude toward the brand In this advertisement, the information in this advertisement was not informed, ... focusing on advertising through internet Internet advertising comprises of websites, portals, gadgets, feeds and search engines With help of advertising the business firms publicize their businesses...
... Cd Pb > Ni > Zn Kaolinite and illite Clay material Irving-Williams order in McBride (1989) Scheffer and Schachtschabel (cited in Joregensen and Jensen, 1984) Schnitzer and Skinner at pH (1966, ... dominated in the organically bound and sulfide (oxidisable) fraction; Pb was mainly present in the organically bound and residue fractions; and Zn was distributed in the carbonates, oxides and organic ... fractions in the sludge, and the results obtained in the present research are in general agreement with these Since sludge contains a significant amount of organic matter and Cu has a high affinity...
... declining The internalization of information within the same institution may thus enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing The demand and supply ... concepts of financing and funding as, respectively, initial financing and s final financing (See Graziani, 1984) Monetary circuit theory, in particular, stresses the role of banks in sustaining the ... by placing money with investment financial institutions in the capital market, and hold the remaining share in noninterest bearing, short-term bank deposits (eq 7) The share of savings going to...