The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the efficacy of an injectable hydroxyapatite cement in combination with long posterior transpedicular instrumentation, without fusion, for the treatment of unstable thoracolumbar burst fractures. Ten patients with this type of fracture were treated in the period 1999-2000 with bisegmental posterior transpedicular stabilisation above and below th...

Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) has continued to evolve over the past year. Much of the data has been confirmatory with further work on risk factors, silent strokes, leukoaraiosis and lesion volume and location. The importance of the interaction between cerebrovascular disease and other causes of cognitive impairment, most importantly Alzheimer disease (AD) remains a prominent theme. The na...

The hydrological cycle is an important process for monitoring various functions of the landscape. However, changes from land use and natural events, such as drought, have caused several problems in watersheds, water scarcity episodes. Thus, creation tools these events environmental research. Therefore, objective this work delimiting potential biomass elaborates balance Serra Azul stream sub-bas...

This study aims at characterizing agricultural drought in Ethiopia and understanding the effects of on crop yield. Monthly, seasonal annual Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) Condition (VCI) values were calculated using MODIS (MOD13Q1) from year 2003 to 2017. The relationships between NDVI, VCI, yield examined predict possibility impacts productivity. We found that VCI NDVI data prov...

The rise of augmented reality glasses and related technologies offers new possibilities for the human-machine interface design future aircraft. Today, head-worn displays (HWDs) are mainly used by military pilots, instance helicopter crews low-visibility operations close to ground obstacles. Nevertheless, recent technological advances in this area allow prediction that these systems could become...

Diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) or vascular dementia (VaD) is highly dependent on operational definitions. Among 480 cases of incident dementia in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) Cognition Study, Lopez et al1 demonstrated how findings from brain imaging and choice of diagnostic criteria influence the classification of VaD. As shown by previous investigators, the number of...

BACKGROUND Hemodynamic balance in the heart-brain axis is increasingly recognized as a crucial factor in maintaining functional and structural integrity of the brain and thereby cognitive functioning. Patients with heart failure (HF), carotid occlusive disease (COD), and vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) present themselves with complaints attributed to specific parts of the heart-brain axis, ...