PURPOSE To determine the clinical healing rate of repairs of meniscus tears that extend into the central one-third region and the factors that affect the outcome. METHODS A systematic search of PubMed was conducted to determine the outcome of meniscus repairs in the red-white (R/W) zone. Inclusion criteria were as follows: English language, clinical trials published from 1996 to 2013, R/W tea...

Results presented in this paper strongly support the notion that similarities as well as differences in language systems can be empirically investigated by looking into the linguistic patterns of speech repairs in real speech data. A total of 500 Gemmn and 325 Mandarin Chinese overt immediate speech repairs were analysed with regard to their internal phrasal structures, with particular focus on...

The subject of the study is major repairs an apartment building. authors analyse concepts “capital building” and “energy efficient repair”, explore normative methodical base. Based on presented statistical data state buildings, paper proposes original system indicators for evaluating energy-efficient capital repairs. assessment population by degree satisfaction with housing conditions character...

Given an inconsistent database that violates a set of (conditional) functional dependencies, a minimal attribute-based repair is a database that satisfies the dependencies, and minimally differs from the original database in the set of attribute values that have been changed. For an inconsistent database, we define a basic conflict as a minimal set of attribute values, of which at least one nee...

Ventral hernia repairs are among the most frequently performed surgical procedures. The variations of repair techniques are multiple and outcome has been unacceptable. Despite the high volume, it has been difficult to obtain sufficient data to provide evidence for best practice. In order to monitor national surgical quality and provide the warranted high volume data, the first national ventral ...

The definition of reliability may not be readily applicable for repairable systems. Our recent work has shown that multiple metrics are needed to fully account for the performance of a repairable system under uncertainty. Optimal tradeoffs among a minimal set of metrics can be used in the design and maintenance of these systems. A minimal set of metrics provides the most information about the s...

A dimension in a Data Warehouse (DW) is a set of elements connected by a hierarchical relationship. The elements are used to view summaries of data at different levels of abstraction. In order to support an efficient processing of such summaries, a dimension is usually required to satisfy different classes of integrity constraints. In scenarios where the constraints properly capture the semanti...