Injuries of the fingers and thumb in the athlete are common. Mallet finger, jersey finger, boutonniere deformity, Bennett and Rolando fractures, and gamekeeper's thumb are just a few of the injuries that can occur in athletes. A thorough understanding of the mechanism of injury, osseous and soft tissue abnormalities, imaging features, and treatment is important in the care of athletes. Prompt a...

2 Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney Broadway, Australia [email protected] Abstract. The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21 century will have a powerful social and economic impact on both business entities and individual customers, because it makes transparent quality assessment on products and services to achieve customer assurance...

The present ethnobotanical exploratory study embodies the folk medicinal uses of certain important medicinal plants by tribals of bastar district in Madhya Pradesh state of India. Twenty seven medicinal plants form diverse families have been covered being therapeutically used against different diseases such acidity, debility, diabetes, male and female weakness, fistula, migraine and skin diseas...

If we are to believe the cases" here, many' wonderful cures appear to have resulted, whether produced by the fluid or by suggestion \y,e cannot say. There have been other attempts to cure impotence, debility and senility by use of testicular fluids or extracts, but it appears that the special" virtue of Brown Sequard's orchitine is.due to' the fact that the animal is killed and the fluid extrac...

This paper devises a classification system for reputation systems based on two axes, namely: who performs the evaluation of a subject’s reputation, and how the information is collected by the reputation system. This leads to 4 possible operational models for reputation systems, termed the Voting Model, the Opinion Poll Model, the MP Model and the Research Model, each of which is then analyzed. ...

nowadays, the necessity of accurate quantitative decision support methods is becoming a critical subject for managers as rivalry between organizations caused a more fragile economic environment and brand reputation is becoming more important. furthermore, dealing with incidents after they happened is not accepted by customers anymore. managers require powerful decision making tools to support t...