Purpose This study was conducted to study the epidemiology, classification, treatment and outcome of a large patient group with pelvic ring injury in a level 1 trauma center in the Netherlands. Materials and Methods In the period of 2004 to 2014, we encountered 537 patients with a pelvic fracture. Many of them are due to a high energy trauma and therefore many concomitant injuries are observe...

Iterative stencil computations are important in scientific computing and more and more also in the embedded and mobile domain. Recent publications have shown that tiling schemes that ensure concurrent start provide efficient ways to execute these kernels. Diamond tiling and hybrid-hexagonal tiling are two successful tiling schemes that enable concurrent start. Both have different advantages: di...

Background: Manual handling, lifting, or carrying of material is responsible for non-fatal injuries among employees in industries. It is the second most prevalent reported risk factor in workplaces that can lead to potential manual handling accidents and longer-term musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The aim of this study was the evaluation of manual material handling using the American National...

A discourse is more than a random set of sentences, because it is coherent (e.g. Hobbs, 1990) Discourse coheres -among other thingsbecause coherence relations hold between the segments, or rather between the representation people make of the segments. A coherence relation is an aspect of tile meaning of two or more discourse segments that cannot be described in terms of tile meaning of tile seg...

A content-based tile retrieval system based on the underlying multispectral Markov random field representation is introduced. Single tiles are represented by our approved textural features derived from especially efficient Markovian statistics and supplemented with Local Binary Patterns (LBP) features representing occasional tile inhomogeneities. Markovian features are on top of that also invar...

Nowadays there are various kinds of insulating glass available on the global market. The most popular type is the double sealed insulating glass unit (IGU). Polysulfide, polyurethane and silicone based sealants are the premium elastic sealants used as secondary seal. Provided they are formulated to the state-of-art these sealants meet all requirements on manufacture and service properties of we...

New geochronological and geochemical data on magmatic activity from the India-Asia collision zone enables recognition of a distinct magmatic flare-up event that we ascribe to slab breakoff. This tie-point in the collisional record can be used to back-date to the time of initial impingement of the Indian continent with the Asian margin. Continental arc magmatism in southern Tibet during 80-40 Ma...

Apportioning sources, assessing flow pathways, and quantifying the interaction between source transport factors are critical for decreasing nutrient loss from agricultural catchments. In this study, water, nutrient, tracer (δ18O, electrical conductivity) fluxes were measured over two years a tile-drained field in Indiana, USA to quantify linkages among water management practices, delivery tile ...