The 2022 POSNA Annual Meeting Pre-course, the last of its kind, was dedicated to “Improving Patient care through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,” showing continued commitment organization these vital topics in growth our field. Orthopaedic surgery remains least diverse subspecialty. Although studies show representation women underrepresented minorites (URM) is increasing orthopaedics, it at a ...

The deep mounting of CFRP strips to masonry using a flexible adhesive was developed as minimally-invasive and cost-effective out-of-plane seismic retrofitting technique for unreinforced (URM) buildings. Previous experiments on one-way spanning full-scale walls confirmed the significant added value lateral resistance displacement capacity Flexible Deep Mounted (FDM) retrofitted with respect maso...

This study investigated how institutional leaders within an alliance navigate and use their agency to cultivate organizational change support the success of underrepresented racial minority (URM) science, technology, engineering, math (STEM) students. As part this study, we partnered with Illinois Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ILSAMP), a signature program National Science Fo...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether two specific criteria in Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts (URM) created by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)--namely, including the trial ID registration within manuscripts and timely registration of trials, are being followed. MATERIALS AND METHODS Observational study using computerized analysis of publicly available Medline art...

• The trial was carried out at 2 sites. The vines in both sites were trained to a 2-wire vertical trellis. The only difference was: Site 1 was thinned with a Gregoire G65 harvester, and used three pairs of bow rods to thin the lower third of the canopy. Site 2 used a URM Vinestar harvester, and used four pairs of bow rods to thin the lower half of the canopy. The reason only a portion of the ca...

Despite the fact that in recent years Portugal has not seen occurrence of high-magnitude earthquakes, it remains threatened by these events due to its geographic location. Since 1960s, reinforced concrete been most used material for new constructions; however, historic urban centers are dominated old unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, which techniques and construction materials have evolved ...