The aim of the study was to explore the significance of T1 pelvic angle (TPA) for assessment of sagittal balance in a cohort of Chinese patients with unspecific low back pain. TPA has been commonly used to assess sagittal balance in adult spinal deformity. However, whether TPA could be used to assess sagittal balance in patients with unspecific low back pain effectively remains unanswered. Medi...

A brief overview of spatially variant apodization (SVA), and its origins as a computationally efficient adaptive windowing technique for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation, is provided by way of introduction. This is followed by a discussion of the use of SVA in conventional (non-sparse) spectral sensing applications such as early warning (EW) and pulsed Doppler radar systems to: (i...

This article is a comparative study. The aim of the study is to investigate the difference of sagittal alignment of the pelvis and spine between patients with thoracolumbar kyphosis secondary to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and thoracolumbar fracture, and to evaluate the role of sacropelvic component in AS patients' adaption to the changes in sagittal alignment. Advanced stages of AS are often a...

The study investigates an impromptu writing task administered to diploma students studying in one of the technical universities on East Coast Malaysia. In particular, it identifies their errors a one-paragraph essay, kind made completing task, and least one-paragraph. samples were 48 undergoing Preliminary Semester taking English as subjects particular semester. found that certain degree using ...

The breakthrough potentials of research papers can be explained by their boundary-spanning qualities. Here, for the first time, we apply structural variation analysis (SVA) model and its affiliated metrics to investigate extent which such qualities characterize a group Nobel Prize winning papers. We find that these share remarkable traits, marked exceptional abilities connect disparate topicall...

the ability to maintain and study human tissues in in-vivo environment has proved to be a valuable tool in breast cancer research for several decades. the most widely tissues have been xenografts established human breast cancer cell lines into athymic nude mice. the aim of this study was to provide a new accurate and affordable method for the establishment of breast cancer xenograftin nude mice...

Adriamycin (ADR) and N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate, respectively, inhibit and enhance the nuclear fluorescence of cells stained with propidium iodide for DNA per cell estimation by flow cytometry. In cells incubated with ADR, the reduction in fluorescence is gradually manifested due to the slow intracellular drug transport. In contrast the effect of N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-vale...

STUDY DESIGN Radiological analysis of normal patterns of sagittal alignment of the spine. PURPOSE This study aimed to clarify the characteristics of normal sagittal spino-pelvic alignment in Asian people. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE It is known that there are differences in these parameters based on age, gender, and race. In order to properly plan for surgical correction of the spine for Asian p...

The recent article by Mazzulli et al. (4) further demonstrates the increasing interest of virologists and microbiologists in the cytomegalovirus antigenemia (CMV-Ag) assay. Mazzulli and coworkers report that the CMV-Ag assay is more sensitive than the shell vial-indirect immunofluorescence assay (SVAIFA), perhaps implying that the direct antigen detection assay should be considered the method o...

Mean serum concentrations of oestradiol-17beta, oestrone, and oestrone sulphate in postmenopausal women were the same when measured up to six hours after treatment with either piperazine oestrone sulphate 1.5 mg or oestradiol valerate 2 mg. Maximum concentrations of oestradiol were less than those of oestrone, but oestrone sulphate reached concentrations about 30 times higher than those of oest...