Interscalene brachial plexus block (ISBPB) offers good analgesia for painful surgical procedures on the shoulder. We here describe two cases of long-term phrenic palsy following ISBPB that occurred in our practice in a relative short time period and both clearly illustrate the devastating impact of this complication for the patient. We will discuss the benefit of ISBPB in the context of the inc...

We formulate a method to compute breakup processes of three-body halo systems reacting with a target. The reaction between one of the particles and the target as well as the corresponding pairwise final state interactions are carefully treated. Both absorption and diffraction processes are included. Detailed differential and total cross sections are calculated for two-neutron (2n) removal from ...

We formulate a method to compute breakup processes of three-body halo systems reacting with a target. The reaction between one of the particles and the target as well as the corresponding pairwise final state interactions are carefully treated. Both absorption and diffraction processes are included. Detailed differential and total cross sections are calculated for two-neutron (2n) removal from ...

For many thermal processes described by partial differential equations, parametric identification of the model can be performed by solving an inverse problem. Measurements noises occurring on one or several measured characteristic states have to be carefully taken into account in order to provide robust identification procedures. However, spatial inaccuracy of the sensor location is rarely inve...

osteomyelitis (bone tissue infection), is a very serious disease affecting many patients by destroying large portions of bone tissue. tigecycline is a recently available antibiotic to overcome bacteria resistance phenomena in bone tissue infections. no information is available regarding its direct effects on bone cells. We have demonstrated deleterious effects of high tigecycline concentrations...

Our contribution will review, analyze, discuss, and synthesize the research work done over the last 10 years exploring meta-design as a major framework for EUD. The overriding perspective of our approach is grounded in the basic assumption that the real impact of EUD transcends the developments to create new technologies but transform cultures by empowering all people to become active contribut...

We introduce a new dual threshold voltage technique for domino logic. Since domino logic is much more sensitive to noise, noise margins have to be taken into account when applying dual threshold voltages to domino logic. To guarantee the signal integrity in domino logic, we carefully consider the effect of transistor sizing and threshold voltage selection. For optimal design, tradeoffs need to ...

This short paper introduces the issues and challenges of next generation Java-based smart card platforms. Betting on a continuous evolution toward open computing devices, next generation cards will consist in embedded Java micro-server platforms. Those platforms will be able to serve various types of services and applications thanks to two important system features: adaptability and maintainabi...

Material and Methods 24 children aged between 4 and 14 years and suffering from rheumatoid arthritis were included in this study. Eight of them were 7 years old or less. As controls we used thirty patients with rheumatoid arthritis between the ages of 18 and 51, of whom eight were over 40 and only one was under 20 years old. In each group 95 affected joints (190 altogether) were carefully analy...