... should be incapable of re-innervating the joint In this study we investigate the long-term efficacy of facet debridement for the treatment of chronic back pain originating in the facet joint MATERIALS ... considering the endoscopic option The facet injections in these 72 patients gave 50 to 100% relief of their pain in 86% of the patients with a median relief period of months The range of relief varied ... to considering the endoscopic surgery option Of these 26 patients, 14 patients had 50 to 100% relief with a median period of pain relief being months The range of relief for the radiofrequency...
... Twelve patients were treated with endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty (ELFP) of the thoracic spine for radicular pain All patients were diagnosed with radicular pain involving the lower thoracic levels ... Int J Med Sci 2009, 225 central or foraminal stenosis treated with endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty via a small incision, of less than one inch Materials and Methods Twelve patients were ... paucity of literature regarding the appropriate management of these patientsIn our experience, patients with thoracic central and foraminal stenosis are more likely to be male, and tend to be of...
... advantage of providing a full specimen for histological examination and for the diagnosis of the extent and infiltration depth of the lesion The outcome ofendoscopic therapy can therefore be evaluated ... EGJ Figure Histological examination of the biopsy specimen showed well-differentiated adenocarcinoma (hematoxylin and eosin staining, original magnification ×100) Page of Figure Esophageal varices ... Page of Abbreviations EGJ: esophagogastric junction; EVL: endoscopic variceal ligation; EUS: endoscopic ultrasonography Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests...
... therefore likely to maintain in the long term • For very immobile obese patients, a reduced weight-bearing form of activity (such as swimming, walking in water, or cycling) may be best in the ... professionals when providing advice to patientsin the clinical setting Information for consumers is also being developed It is stressed that the guidelines are for clinical practice They not ... It is for these reasons that we need guidelines providing an evidence-based assessment of the most effective ways of managing the problem in a clinical setting Clinical Practice Guidelines for...
... presented in section 3 A new formulation for fast calculation of far field force Eq (3) gives solution for outer expansion of P2 M2 Using a similar approach, we obtained solution for inner expansion ... This scaling is achieved by approximation of force using the multipole and local expansion technique Figure shows schematic idea of force approximation in the FMM The force from a group of distant ... and force evaluation Force-evaluation stage consists of near field and far field evaluation parts In the case of original FMM, only the near field part of the force-evaluation stage can be performed...
... discussion of the results are included in chapter five of this thesis Finally, in chapter six the summary and general conclusions of the work including scope for doing further work in the area are incorporated ... is in the range of to 10 percent However, this method is still in use in rubber estates for assessing the ORC of latex for making sheets on a large scale and also for calculating the quantity of ... Travancore during 1860s and subsequently in Cochin for the distribution of forest and wasteland for plantation crops were instrumental for the initial growth and expansion'l", In terms of productivity,...
... training in older women • Evidence for skill training was found, especially if combined with strength training in women of all ages, but the optimal specific training protocol for skill training ... providing a profile of each study using the following headings: • Information about service delivery (health professional and setting/institution) • Demographic information about the subjects in ... for older women Initial severity of incontinence Not all studies reported initial severity of incontinence symptoms but in those which did, two different measures were used: number of incontinence...
... flexion Figure inatus of Position7 the examiner for isometric testing of m infraspPosition of the examiner for isometric testing of m infraspinatus 4.2 Functional diagnostic examination of the arm-hand ... examination of knee joint function takes place passively for the supine patient and begins with • during opposition of the thumb to each of the fingers (to form a ring) In addition, • palpation of ... cervical spine For the examination of the cervical spine, the patient sits on the examination couch with the back of his (or her) knees at the edge of the couch During screening the examining physician...
... assistance in providing information regarding the cocoa industry in Vietnam and in the establishment of solar driers and fermenting boxes at their demonstration farm sites in Ben Tre Province HARVESTING ... to darken in colour during drying as the majority of browning reactions will occur during this process DRYING OF COCOA Drying of cocoa is an important step in cocoa processing as some of the reactions ... showing blackish and mould infected cocoa beans 18: Wet beans cut during a fermentation 19: Sun drying of cocoa on mats in Dak Lak Province 20: Traditional sun drying of cocoa in Ben Tre Province...
... quadratic in the routing distance, and linear in the number of bits sent The proposed algorithm transmits information between neighboring sensors and requires the transmission of a small amount of information ... A H Sayed, “A spatial sampling scheme based on innovations diffusion in sensor networks,” in Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’07), ... S R Kulkarni, and H Vincent Poor, “Distributed kernel regression: an algorithm for training collaboratively,” in Proceedings of the Information Theory Workshop, 2006 W B Heinzelman, A P Chandrakasan,...
... and pruning unlikely combinations by applying some constraints, like a minimum intensity for a pattern One of the main contributions of this study is the extension of the core algorithm to increase ... score of each combination The method aims to enforce the pitch continuity in time For this, the fundamental frequencies of each combination C are mapped into music pitches, obtaining a pitch combination ... 11 for the rest of the candidates in the combination in ascending frequency order 2.4.2 Candidate evaluation The intensity l(c) of a candidate c is a measure of the strength of a source obtained...
... explaining the 93% of total variation of training data On the other hand, we are also interested in characterizing the temporal evolution of the action Therefore, we compute the main direction of ... main modes of variation for the walking action obtained from PCA explain the combined motion of both the legs and the arms, while in the bending action they mainly correspond to the motion of ... different performances have in common which can be exploited for enabling the aforementioned tasks In other words, we aim to characterize the shape of the synchronized version of the training set for...
... probabilities of residing in a certain state for the building under study The presented model for dynamic behavior of ranging error is essential for the design and performance evaluation of tracking capabilities ... summarizes the background of ranging error modeling and classification of ranging error, while Section introduces a new framework for the classification of ranging error observed in indoor environment ... modeling for different classes of receiver locations Modeling the ranging error observed in different classes of receiver locations in indoor localization is the major challenge in the analysis of...
... However, as pointed out in , the ideal form of the algorithm is often impractical since, in many cases, solving the problem 1.6 exactly is either impossible or as difficult as the original problem ... follows The reminder of proof is the same as in the corresponding part of Theorem 2.1 This completes the proof Yeol Je Cho et al Remark 2.4 In Corollary 2.3, we not know wether the continuity assumption ... minimizer of f nearest to u 3.8 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Proof As shown in the proof lines of Theorem 3.1, ∂f : H → H is a maximal monotone operator, and so the conclusion of Theorem...
... Journal of Approximation Theory, vol 134, no 2, pp 257–266, 2005 Y F Su and X L Qin, “Strong convergence of modified Ishikawa iterations for nonlinear mappings,” Proceedings of the Indian Academy of ... then xn − x → For more information concerning property K the reader is referred to 17 and references cited therein In order to prove our main result of this paper, we need to the following facts ... one may consult 8, for the details Let C be a closed convex subset of X, and T a mapping from C into itself A point p in C is said to be asymptotic fixed point of T 13 if C contains a sequence {xn...
... However, as pointed out in , the ideal form of the algorithm is often impractical since, in many cases, solving the problem 1.6 exactly is either impossible or as difficult as the original problem ... follows The reminder of proof is the same as in the corresponding part of Theorem 2.1 This completes the proof Yeol Je Cho et al Remark 2.4 In Corollary 2.3, we not know wether the continuity assumption ... minimizer of f nearest to u 3.8 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Proof As shown in the proof lines of Theorem 3.1, ∂f : H → H is a maximal monotone operator, and so the conclusion of Theorem...
... hours of the day interval and the beginning of the night interval are shown, which are separated by a vertical line) (For the legends, see caption of Figure 1.) The performance index must be minimized ... different intervals of records are shown in Table The incidence of ischemia as compared to other intervals of records is the greatest for all sets during the morning interval, while the lowest incidence ... changes in sympathetic and/or vagal activity during the ischemia Examination of the prior clinical information for the patients showed that all the patients, whose records were inserted in the...
... solvability of the initial operator equation (1.1) We can expect that the existence of an inverse mapping for a given nonlinear expanding mapping of X into itself involves a specific fixed point theorem ... of this section, we consider an important class of linear expanding operators in a real Banach space X Let Ꮽ : X → X be a linear continuous operator For Ꮽ, there exists a unique determined linear ... solvability results for a class of linearized operator equations (4.8) This class is defined by points of linearization x0 ∈ X for the initial nonlinear problem (1.1) with a differentiable expanding operator...
... convex minimization problem of finding a minimizer of a proper lower-semicontinuous convex function and the variational problem of finding a solution of a variational inequality Preliminaries Recall ... proximal mapping) of T We also define the Yosida approximation Ar by Ar = (I − Jr )/r We know that Ar x ∈ TJr x and Ar x ≤ inf { y : y ∈ Tx} for all x ∈ H Before starting the main result of this paper, ... ) for all r > and x ∈ H, where Fr,x z = Fz + (z − x)/r for all z ∈ C Then we have the following result Corollary 4.3 Let F be a single-valued monotone and semicontinuous operator of C into H For...