PURPOSE Regaining hand function has been identified as the highest priority for persons with tetraplegia. In many patients, finger flexion can be restored with a tendon transfer of extensor carpi radialis longus to flexor digitorum profundus (FDP). In the absence of intrinsic function, this results in a roll-up finger movement, which tends to push large objects out of grasp. To enable patients ...

Background. Testicular ischemia reperfusion injury (tIRI) is considered the mechanism underlying the pathology of testicular torsion and detorsion. Left untreated, tIRI can induce testis dysfunction, damage to spermatogenesis and possible infertility. In this study, we aimed to assess the activities and expression of glycolytic enzymes (GEs) in the testis and their possible modulation during tI...

OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the survival rate of 10 four-unit fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) replacing the four maxillary incisors, supported by 20 narrow-diameter implants (NDIs), (2) to assess the incidence of mechanical and biological complications, and (3) to evaluate bone level changes longitudinally after final FDP insertion. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten patients (six women, four men), mea...

Risk factors for activity-related tendon disorders of the hand include applied force, duration, and rate of loading. Understanding the relationship between external loading conditions and internal tendon forces can elucidate their role in injury and rehabilitation. The goal of this investigation is to determine whether the rate of force applied at the fingertip affects in vivo forces in the fle...

This paper studies the fault detection process (FDP) and fault correction process (FCP) with the incorporation of testing effort function and imperfect debugging. In order to ensure high reliability, it is essential for software to undergo a testing phase, during which faults can be detected and corrected by debuggers. The testing resource allocation during this phase, which is usually depicted...

The control of whole hand grasping relies on complex coordination of multiple forces. While many studies have characterized the coordination of finger forces and torques, the control of hand muscle activity underlying multi-digit grasping has not been studied to the same extent. Motor-unit synchrony across finger muscles or muscle compartments might be one of the factors underlying the limited ...

In view of comparatively-high incidence of papillary, well or moderately-well differentiated, transitional cell carcinomas in urology, and of frequent recurrence of carcinomas after appropriate procedures, we have undertaken the correlative study on urinary cytology with cystoscopy, pathology and the amount of fibrinogen and degradation products of fibrinogen and fibrin (FDP). Cytopathologicall...

The CIC floppy disk project (FDP) is a partnership between the U.S. Government Printing Office and Indiana University Bloomington to make publications that were distributed to federal depository libraries on floppy disk available on the Internet. The FDP does not provide software to access these publications many of which depend upon obsolete application and operating system software. This pape...

MOTIVATION Wide-scale correlations between genes are commonly observed in gene expression data, due to both biological and technical reasons. These correlations increase the variability of the standard estimate of the false discovery rate (FDR). We highlight the false discovery proportion (FDP, instead of the FDR) as the suitable quantity for assessing differential expression in microarray data...

AIMS To determine the usefulness of fibrinolytic markers as early prognostic indicators in patients with isolated head trauma. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-two consecutive patients (26 women and 36 men; mean age 61 years, range 2-76 years) with isolated head trauma seen within the first three hours of the trauma were included in the study. The Glasgow Coma score (GCS), platelet counts (Plt), p...