Joint contractures, defined as the limitation in the passive range of motion of a mobile joint, can be classified as noninflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system. The pathophysiology is not well understood; limited information is available on causal factors, progression, the pathophysiology involved, and prediction of response to treatment. The clinical heterogeneity of joint contract...

Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Overstated? The Impact of Non-Classical Measurement Error Measures of inequality and mobility based on self-reported earnings reflect attributes of both the joint distribution of earnings across time and the joint distribution of measurement error and earnings. While classical measurement error would increase measures of inequality and mobility there is subs...

RHEUMATOLOGISTS have long accepted that diabetes predisposes to septic arthritis and is also the commonest cause of neuropathic joints outside lepromatous regions. The diabetic atherosclerotic plaque and capillary basement membrane thickening are both disorders of connective tissue matrix and it is therefore not surprising that interstitial connective tissues such as skeleton, joints and periar...

Rupture of the peroneous tertius was diagnosed in a 7-year-old stallion, based on clinical examinations.The stifle joint flexed as the limb was advanced forward without flexing the hock. When the limb was pulledbackward, the hock joint extended but the stifle was in the normal position. The recommended treatmentincluded complete stall rest for 6 weeks followed by limited exercise for 2 months. ...

Downlink beamforming techniques with low signaling overhead are proposed for joint processing coordinated (JP) multi-point transmission. The objective is to maximize the weighted sum rate within joint transmission clusters. As the considered weighted sum rate maximization is a nonconvex problem, successive convex approximation techniques, based on weighted mean-squared error minimization, are a...

mobile ad hoc networks (manets) are composed of mobile stations communicating through wireless links, without any fixed backbone support. in these networks, limited power energy supply, and frequent topology changes caused by node mobility, makes their routing a challenging problem. tora is one of the routing protocols that successfully copes with the nodes’ mobility side effects, but it doesn’...