ABSTRACT: This study determined the canal flare index (CFI) of four dog breeds using two distinct femoral regions as a reference. Thirty-five radiographs hip joints Golden Retrievers (GRG), German Shepherds (GSG), Labrador (LRG), and Rottweilers (RG) both sexes were used. Seventy experimental units submitted to CFI calculation. Objective (CFIob) subjective (CFIsub) values each unit according an...

A voice problem would be of great concern for a person who needs to use their voice constantly in their occupation or social life. People with voice disorders are frequently referred for Speech Therapy to resolve their voice difficulties. Currently in Sri Lanka, endoscopic imaging methods and perceptual evaluations are carried out to identify voice disorders and their effects. However, worldwid...

Abstract: The Second Songhua River is the biggest river system in Jilin Province, China. In recent years, the rapid economic development in this area has increased the prominence of water resources and water-related environmental problems; these include surface water pollution and the overexploitation of groundwater resources. Bank infiltration on the floodplains of the Second Songhua River is ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is limited documentation of measurement error of grip and pinch force evaluation methods. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine indexes of measurement error for intraexaminer and interexaminer measurements of grip and pinch force in patients with hand injuries and (2) to investigate whether the measurement error differs between measurements of the injured...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated a variety of non-invasive physiological technologies and a series of test approaches for examination of aviator performances under conditions of mental workload in order to provide a standard real-time test for physiological and psychological pilot fatigue assessments. METHODS Twenty-one male aviators were selected for a simulated flight in a hypobaric cabin with artifi...

Reorganising the index of a search engine based on access frequencies can significantly reduce query evaluation time while maintaining search effectiveness. In this paper we extend access-ordering and introduce a variant index organisation technique that we label accessreordering. We show that by access-reordering an inverted index, query evaluation time can be reduced by as much as 62% over th...

‎in this paper a new family of fifteenth-order methods with high efficiency index is presented‎. this family include four evaluations of the function and one evaluation of its first derivative per iteration.‎ ‎therefore‎, ‎this family of methods has the efficiency index which equals 1.71877‎. ‎in order to show the applicability and validity of the class‎, ‎some numerical examples are discussed‎.

Traditionally conceived of and studied as a disorder of cognitive and emotional functioning, schizophrenia (SZ) is also characterized by alterations in bodily sensations. These have included subjective reports based on self-evaluations and/or clinical observations describing motor, as well as sensory-based corporeal anomalies. There has been, however, a paucity of objective methods to capture a...

PURPOSE Leading health systems have invested in substantial quality improvement (QI) capacity building, but little is known about the aggregate effect of these investments at the health system level. We conducted a systematic review to identify key steps and elements that should be considered for system-level evaluations of investment in QI capacity building. METHODS We searched for evaluatio...

[Purpose] The aim of study was to compare different durations of ultrasound in patients with knee osteoarthritis. [Subjects and Methods] One hundred patients diagnosed with bilateral knee osteoarthritis (OA) were enrolled in this study. Patients were divided into two groups. The first group (G1) received 4 minutes of ultrasound. The second group (G2) received the exact same treatment, but the d...