BACKGROUND High quality chest compression is one of the key factors in successful resuscitation. A high standard of training is therefore decisive. We aimed to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of teaching chest compression in a study designed to highlight where targeted improvements in the quality of our chest compression training can and must be made. METHODS Retrospective analysis o...

Grade 1 open spiral fracture of left tibia in a 1.5 year-old horse was treated using a combination of 4.5 mm locking compression plate (LCP) and a dynamic compression plate applied in a neutralization manner. The open wound was managed postoperatively by regular dressing and lavage. Radiograph at 24 days post-treatment revealed callus formation and at two months complete bridging callus was obs...

BACKGROUND Chest compression quality is a determinant of survival from sudden cardiac arrest. The CPR RsQ Assist Device (CPR RAD) is a new cardiopulmonary resuscitation device for chest compression. It is operated manually but it does not pull up on the chest on the up stroke. The aim of this study was to compare the CPR RAD with standard manual compression in terms of chest compression quality...

The wavelet based ECW image compression is compared with older compression techniques and other wavelet compression methods. The ability to compress images without intermediate tiling or intermediate disk storage is a big advantage of the ECW compression especially for the compression of big remote sensing data sets. The technique of ECW compression will be explained in more detail and typical ...

As medical/biological imaging facilities move towards complete film-less imaging, compression plays a key role. Although lossy compression techniques yield high compression rates, the medical community has been reluctant to adopt these methods, largely for legal reasons, and has instead relied on lossless compression techniques that yield low compression rates. The true goal is to maximise comp...

Compression of pure refrigerants in the two-phase flow region has a number of advantages for the performance of vapor compression systems. Compressors may be lubricated by liquid refrigerant so that the process side of the cycle is not contaminated by lubricant. The compression process can be realized in the two-phase region preventing superheating with its associated irreversibility losses. Th...

Compression is a technique to reduce the quantity of data without excessively reducing the quality of the data. Image compression is the application of data compression on digital images. Image compression is used to minimize the amount of memory needed to represent an image, for storage or transmission of information. When hearing that image data are reduced, one could expect that automaticall...

We propose a special-purpose class of compression algorithms for efficient compression of Prolog programs. It is a dictionary-based compression method, specially designed for the compression of Prolog code, and therefore we name it PCA (Prolog Compression Algorithm). According to the experimental results this method provides better compression than state-of-theart general-purpose compression al...