Objectives: Opioid pain medication is most commonly prescribed after distal radius fracture fixation, and there high variability in the quantity duration prescribed. Comorbidities including substance use depression have been associated with higher consumption habits increased sizes of postoperative opioid prescriptions has previously linked to increasing risk chronic disorder. The purpose this ...

Duration Calculus (DC) is a real-time logic with measurement of duration of propositions in observation intervals. It is a highly expressive logic with continuous time behaviours (also called signals) as its models. Validity checking of DC is undecidable. We propose a method for validity checking of Duration Calculus by reduction to a sampled time version of this logic called well sampled Inter...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of intramedullary fixation using the Kirschner-wire (K-wire) compared to the titanium elastic nail (TEN) in pediatric femoral shaft fractures. METHODS A sample of 42 pediatric patients with a mean age of 6.55±2.42 years (range 4-11 years) presenting femoral shaft fractures underwent intramedullary fixation using the K-wire or TEN. RESULTS There was no...

Computational models of category learning and attention have historically focused on capturing trial and experiment level interactions between attention and decision. However, evidence has been accumulating that suggests that the moment-to-moment attentional dynamics of an individual affects both their immediate decision-making processes as well as their overall learning performance. To extend ...

It has been demonstrated that in gap pursuit tasks, smooth pursuit latency is reduced. This 'gap effect' is modified by factors such as gap duration and task context. We have now investigated whether it is also modified by an important visual parameter--the contrast of the pursuit and fixation targets. We found that while pursuit target contrast is an important determinant of pursuit latency, f...

Abstract Background To compare the diseased verses non-diseased intervertebral surgery used in treatment of thoracolumbar and lumbar spinal tuberculosis to explore best choice fusion fixation range. Methods Two hundred twenty-one patients with were categorized into two groups. One eighteen underwent (lesion vertebral pedicle fixation, Group A) 103 (1 or 2 above below affected vertebra, group B)...

objective: to determine the effects of platelet rich plasma prp on healing rates of long bone non-:union: fracture. method: this was a randomized double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial being performed in a 12-month period. we included 75 adult (>18 years) patients suffering from long bone (femur, tibia, humerus and ulna) non-:union: fracture who were randomly assigned to receive 5ml prp...

Two experiments were conducted to examine the influence of the spatial frequency content of natural images on saccadic size and fixation duration. In the first experiment 10 pictures of natural textures were low-pass filtered (0.04-0.76 cycles/deg) and high-pass filtered (1.91-19.56 cycles/deg) and presented with the unfiltered originals in random order, each for 10 s, to 18 participants, with ...