Aim: In tricompartmental osteoarthritis of the knee, the patellofemoral articulation is severely affected due to degenerative changes. Patellaplasty is done as a part of total knee arthroplasty in these cases to smoothen the articular surface of patella. However, an ideal technique with easy reproducibility has been scarcely reported for the same. Method: We describe a method of using electroca...

In the present paper, suitability of selected oilseeds, their corresponding vegetable oils, and few other raw materials to produce bio-based plastics was evaluated by constructing a novel criteria-based framework for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) analysis with focus on criteria chemical functionality, sustainability, production quantity, cost, market availability. Qualitative, semi-quan...

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The purpose of ESSKA- APOSSM Travelling fellowship is to better understand the epidemiology, management and surgical techniques for sports across continents. There has been a progressive evolution in ACL reconstruction and there is variation in technique in ACL reconstruction amongst the most experienced surgeons in different continents. During this one month fellowship, we saw various ACL reco...

A team of researchers with members from several countries in Europe has used a type of X-ray diffraction to reveal defects in the way a superconductor develops. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes the technique they used to study one type of superconductor and what they saw. Erica Carlson with Perdue University offers a News & Views piece on the work done by the t...

having access to locations struck by natural environmental disasters is one of the chief necessities in urban disaster management. this paper aims to study different physical and semi-physical patterns for increasing access to different districts in a city through applying changes to the present network of routes. to attain this goal, district 6 of tehran municipality was selected for the case ...

This paper proposes an autonomic connection management mechanism for multi-homed mobile terminals. The knowledge repository and the case-based reasoning technique are used to enhance the autonomicity of the connection management. The multi-criteria handoff decision is the core of the mechanism. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) are combined to make the handoff...

In classical theory, teeth of vertebrate dentitions evolved from co-option of external skin denticles into the oral cavity. This hypothesis predicts that ordered tooth arrangement and regulated replacement in the oral dentition were also derived from skin denticles. The fossil batoid ray Schizorhiza stromeri (Chondrichthyes; Cretaceous) provides a test of this theory. Schizorhiza preserves an e...

Perlombaan taman TOGA merupakan sebuah langkah yang dilakukan oleh kelurahan Tambangan Semarang untuk mendorong masyarakat kembali memanfaatkan alam. adalah tumbuhan berkhasiat dikelola keluarga dan ditanam pada lahan pekarangan. Dalam prakteknya proses pemilihan masih menggunakan cara manual. Pengambilan keputusan tidak tepat akan mengakibatkan terpilih sesuai dengan kenyataan sebenarnya. Perm...