The Saint John Protocol describes a rehabilitation program of up to half a fist of protected true active finger flexion beginning 3 to 5 days after flexor tendon repair. We no longer use full fist place and hold. We illustrate with film and text the reasons for these changes.

I’ll give an outline of the theory of Whitney algebras of a matroid, with the notions of geometric product and the excahnge relations, I’ll give the letterplace superalgebra coding of these algebras, and I’ll show how this coding allows to get the exchange relations directly from the superstraightening laws. I’ll not speak about the Lax Hopf algebra structure of Whitney algebras. All this is pa...

A chip with which to manipulate microparticles using wireless power transfer and pulse-driven dielectrophoresis has been designed and fabricated using a 0.18-μm CMOS process. The chip enables microparticle manipulation under a 0.7-V power supply and a 13-MHz clock, which are generated on the chip by means of an on-chip coil, a rectifier, and a Schmitt trigger circuit.

This paper describes the DocMining platform, that is aimed at providing a general framework for document interpretation. The platform integrates processings that come from different sources and that communicate through the document. A task to be performed is represented by a scenario that describes the processings to be run, and each processing is associated with a contract that describes the p...

The extant literature presents antecedents of loyalty into four groups: characteristics of the environment, characteristics of the dyadic relationship, characteristics of the consumer, and consumer perceptions of the relationship with the marketing firm. However, it pays little to no attention to the antecedents of loyalty in small island economies. Prior research on small island economies is h...

Steroid injections have long been the main stay of conservative treatment of trigger digits. This procedure gives variable results, which is dependent on a number of factors. The injection of the steroid in the right place improves the success rate and also prevents complications associated with the procedure. We describe a technique using ultrasound for accurate injection of steroid to maximis...

This paper presents an overall description of the CMS trigger system which is composed by the Level-1 Trigger and the High-Level Trigger subsystems. Details on the algorithms and selection criteria at a luminosity of 2x10 33 cm-2 s-1 are provided. High efficiencies for benchmark physics channels are attainable with an inclusive selection that avoids detailed topological requirements on the event.

OBJECTIVES Recently it was reported that the loose connective tissue in the subcutaneous layer rapidly responded to mechanical forces evoked by acupuncture, massage, and normal physical movements. However, there were no clinical studies to substantiate these findings so far. Fu's Subcutaneous Needling (FSN) is the innovative needling strategy acting specifically in the subcutaneous layer. A sin...