Traditionally, thoracolumbar split and burst-split fractures are treated with combined antero-posterior bi-segmental fusion procedures. Especially in the lower lumbar spine, such interventions invasive associated increased risk of neurological vascular complications. This retrospective study aims to determine whether percutaneous stent-kyphoplasty is a viable treatment option for these injuries...

We examine the impact of firm ownership composition on both the abnormal returns at the announcement of a stock split and liquidity changes following a stock split. We find three results. First, the largest post-split increase in institutional ownership occurs for firms that had low institutional ownership prior to the split. Second, changes in liquidity are negatively related to the level of i...

Split-GFP reassembly is an operationally simple in vivo technique used to identify and study interactions involving proteins and/or peptides. However, the instability of split-GFP fragments and their susceptibility to aggregation place limitations on the broader use of split-GFP reassembly. Supercharged proteins, including supercharged GFP, are variants with high theoretical negative or positiv...

the edge tenacity te(g) of a graph g is dened as:te(g) = min {[|x|+τ(g-x)]/[ω(g-x)-1]|x ⊆ e(g) and ω(g-x) > 1} where the minimum is taken over every edge-cutset x that separates g into ω(g - x) components, and by τ(g - x) we denote the order of a largest component of g. the objective of this paper is to determine this quantity for split graphs. let g = (z; i; e) be a noncomplete connected spli...