A 44-year-old woman presents with a chief complaint of neck pain with radiation of paresthesias into her left medial forearm, and fourth and fifth digits. She was involved in a rear end motor vehicle collision 2 years prior. Her symptoms are exacerbated by work (eg, typing, mousing), and combing her hair, and have remained relatively constant at 3 of 10 average, and 8 of 10 at its worst by visu...

An aerator, installed to prevent cavitation damages in spillways and outlet works, generates a typical two-phase flow affected by its configuration conditions. The major parameters of concern include air demand, jet trajectory streamwise changes concentration near chute bottom. This study reviews the theoretical basis deals with several aspects physical scale modeling, supported exclusively fie...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the utility of gastrojejunostomy for the palliation of gastric outlet obstruction in irresectable or incurable gastric carcinoma. METHODS This is a retrospective review of 67 patients who underwent a gastrojejunostomy for gastric outlet obstruction caused by gastric carcinoma between 1 January 1996 and 31 May 2003. RESULTS There were 19 complications after surgery, ...

ADsrmct-In the mobile ad-hoc network, there can exist two categories of terminals, the battery-powered and the outlet-plugged terminals. In this paper, a new scheme for the power-saving of battery-powered terminals in mobile ad-hoc networks is proposed. Based on this scheme, the batterypowered terminals page the traffic with minimum power to the nearest outlet-plugged terminal, and only the out...

Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is a constellation of signs and symptoms caused by compression of the neurovascular structures in the thoracic outlet. TOS may be classified as either neurogenic TOS (NTOS) or vascular TOS: venous TOS (VTOS) or arterial TOS (ATOS), depending on the specific structure being affected. The basis for the surgical treatment of TOS is resection of the first rib, and it ...

PURPOSE We attempted to improve the method of objective clinical evaluation of patients with benign prostatic enlargement and lower urinary tract symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared the results of free uroflowmetry and transrectal ultrasound prostate size determination with those of pressure-flow analysis of bladder outlet obstruction in 871 consecutive elderly men. RESULTS Maximal ...

The dam of the reservoir Cuibul Vulturilor, located on Tutova river is an inhomogeneous earth with a maximum height 15.0 m, clayey central core and lateral prisms made clayey-dusty sands. For tracking evolution body seepage, 12 piezometers drainage pipe discharge in downstream connection channel bottom outlet are used. paper presents characteristic elements theoretical infiltration curve It als...

Natural ventilation (NV) is an effective energy-saving strategy to remove the excessive heat in high-rise atria. The traditional NV system atria has inlet openings at bottom and outlet top. However, this may bring fire safety concerns due rapid spread of smoke during atrium fire. To concern, a new was proposed study. This applies segmentation slab divide into upper lower parts, which can limit ...