background: surgical treatments for acromioclavicular (ac) joint dislocation present with some complications. the present study was designed to evaluate the double-button fixation system in the management of acute acromioclavicular joint dislocation. methods: this cross sectional study, done between february 2011 to june 2014, consisted of 28 patients who underwent surgical management by the do...

Knowledge management plays a very important role in business operation, especially in the efficient exploitation of information or knowledge resources through technology. Technology provides the basic tools for implementing and improving the efficiency of knowledge management activities within an enterprise. To understand the relative influence of various factors in improving knowledge manageme...

This paper examines serial strategic innovation as a basis of sustainable competitive advantage through a longitudinal case study of Proctor and Gamble (P&G) from its inception through 2008. For over 170 years P&G has been in continuous operation in the consumer products industry, growing to become a multi-billion dollar global corporation. Over its history, P&G has pioneered a series of strate...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study is to provide fundamental information for efficient management of patients after a total knee replacement (TKR) through the evaluation of changes of range of motion, pain, functional level, and quality of life. [Subjects and Methods] For a total of 63 knee osteoarthritis patients, VAS, KSKS, KSFS, HSS, WOMAC scores and quality of life were evaluated for funct...

OFMP is a hierarchical, network management protocol that enables group operations to be executed on the management information bases of all nodes in the group. As long as no faults occur, OFMP ensures that all nodes execute their local operation exactly once in each group operation. If \immediately-detectable" faults occur, it ensures masking fault-tolerance; i.e., all non-failed nodes execute ...

Microgrids (MGs) contain a diverse mix of energy resources to provide safe and secure power to the consumers. Batteries are utilized in MGs for further energy security assurance as well as cost minimization. In this paper, an efficient approach is introduced for simultaneous energy management and optimal battery sizing to accomplish economic MG operation. Also, demand response programs are empl...

Decisive factor of scale of land is the capacity of management and control of agricultural operation subject, which is strengthened with improvement of skills. Only if scale of land is enlarged accordingly, then economic profit can be gained. Under such external circumstances as reduction of agricultural comparative advantage and fluctuation of relative factor prices brought about by economic d...

This paper deals with the joint planning and energy management operation of Wireless Mesh Networks. We claim that energy management should be incorporated at the planning stages to produce an effective energy-management operation. For this, we propose a mathematical framework that takes into account the trade-off of capital expenditures versus energy-related operational ones when designing the ...

conclusions all of the gynecologic surgeons must be aware of gastrointestinal injuries and should anticipate injury to these organs especially in high-risk patients for decreasing patient morbidity. results the mean age of women was 33.2 ± 7.57 years. 44% of the patients had a history of abdominal scar. 32% of all gi injuries occurred during total abdominal hysterectomy (tah). the small bowel w...