Background: Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most prevalent complaints among the people worldwide. According to the medical statistics, about 80 percent of people have at least one episode of LBP during their lifetime cause them to visit a physician for treatment. LBP is the most prevalent cause of work disability and its related leaves among people under 45 years old. Numerous studies have be...

The idea is to interconnect test items to reuse memory states left from the previous test item for saving initialization and verification sequences. Meanwhile, signal settling time of tester between two consecutive test items being applied can also be minimized since all test items are connected together into a continuous one. The interconnection problem is transformed to the Rural Chinese Post...

OBJECTIVES Retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) has been employed to protect the brain during cardiovascular surgery, requiring temporary hypothermic circulatory arrest (HCA). However, the protocol used for RCP remains to be modified if prolonged HCA is expected. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of a modified protocol for this purpose. METHODS After establishment of HCA at 1...

The athermal and dissipative nature of packings of grains is still challenging our understanding of their compaction as well as their crystallisation. For instance, some beads poured in a container get jammed in random disordered con gurations, which cannot be denser than 64%, the random closed packing (RCP) limit. Remarkably it has been suggested that the RCP bound is saturated with dense patt...

We present the formal veriication of synchronizing aspects of the Reliable Computing Platform (RCP), a fault-tolerant computing system for digital ight control applications. The RCP uses NMR-style redundancy to mask faults and internal majority voting to purge the eeects of transient faults. The system design has been formally speciied and veriied using the Ehdm veriication system. Our formaliz...

Climate change has caused shifts in species' ranges and extinctions of high-latitude and altitude species. Most cold-tolerant evergreen broadleaved woody plants (shortened to cold-evergreens below) are rare species occurring in a few sites in the alpine and subalpine zones in the Korean Peninsula. The aim of this research is to 1) identify climate factors controlling the range of cold-evergreen...

Given the number of applications surrounding early transition metal cyclopentadienyl sandwich complexes, the paucity of vanadocene research is truly remarkable. This is even more surprising given their potential application as potent antitumor agents,1 paramagnetic medical MRI shift reagents,2ab Ziegler-Natta catalysts,3ab and building blocks for novel magnetic materials.4 Obviously, one of the...

This article reviews the current literature relating to medical outpatient services. It has been produced as part of the RCP/NHS Confederation working party on outpatients departments. The article deals with surveys of patient views on outpatients, suggested ways of improving the service, and how best to accommodate teaching in this setting. An RCP booklet, 'How user friendly is your outpatient...

Since A. Robinson’s work, this result has been shown valid for a large class of logic and recently has received generalizations in institutions [8]. One of the main reason why a logic should have RCP is because of “modular theory building”. Indeed, RCP has been shown to be equivalent to Craig’s interpolation property (CIP), and CIP is strongly connected to modularity in specification theory [2,...