We retrospectively reviewed 60 fractures of the tibial plafond treated by either an ankle-sparing diaphyseal-epiphyseal technique using the Ilizarov ring fixator or by an ankle-spanning technique using a monolateral articulated external fixator. The Ilizarov ring fixator was applied in 24 fractures and the monolateral articulated transarticular external fixator in 20. Both techniques were combi...

BACKGROUND Pliocene uplifting of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and Quaternary glaciation may have impacted the Asian biota more than any other events. Little is documented with respect to how the geological and climatological events influenced speciation as well as spatial and genetic structuring, especially in vertebrate endotherms. Macaca mulatta is the most widely distributed non-human p...

Processes of cobalt (Co) entrainment from shelf sediments over the Kerguelen Plateau were studied during the KEOPS (Kerguelen Ocean Plateau compared Study) in order to explain the exceptionally high dissolved cobalt concentrations that have been measured in the surface waters above the Kerguelen Plateau, and in intermediate and deep waters above its eastern slope. Lateral advection and dissolut...

The effects of serotonin (5-HT) on intrinsic properties of spinal motoneurons were investigated with intracellular recordings in a slice preparation from adult turtles. In 55% of the cells that were recorded, addition of 5-HT to the extracellular medium promoted plateau potentials as revealed by the response to depolarizing current pulses applied through the intracellular electrode. In the rema...

We have assessed the proximal capsular extension of the ankle joint in 18 patients who had a contrast-enhanced MRI ankle arthrogram in order to delineate the capsular attachments. We noted consistent proximal capsular extensions anterior to the distal tibia and in the tibiofibular recess. The mean capsular extension anterior to the distal tibia was 9.6 mm (4.9 to 27.0) proximal to the anteroinf...

We present a unifying model of plateau-to-plateau transitions in the quantum Hall effect based on results from high resolution frequency scaling experiments. We show that as the frequency or quantum coherence length of the two-dimensional electron system is varied, one observes a crossover between classical percolation and quantum percolation in the measured values of the critical scaling expon...

Check-dams are the most common structures for controlling soil erosion in the Loess Plateau. However, the effect of check-dams on carbon sequestration, along with sediment transport and deposition, has not been assessed over large areas. In this study, we evaluated the carbon sequestration function of check-dams in the Loess Plateau. The results indicate that there were approximately 11 000 che...

The crystal structure of Cs2CuBr4 is the same as that of Cs2CuCl4, which has been characterized as a spin1 2 quasi-two-dimensional frustrated system. The magnetic properties of Cs2CuBr4 were investigated by magnetization and specific heat measurements. The phase transition at zero magnetic field was detected at TN = 1.4 K. It was observed that the magnetization curve has a plateau at about one-...

1 Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 2 Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 3 Department of Medical Microbiology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria, 4 Leptospirosis Unit, Central Diagnostics Laboratories National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Pl...

We demonstrate, using both finite element simulations and a linear stability analysis, the emergence of an electro-elastocapillary Rayleigh-plateau instability in dielectric elastomer (DE) films under 2D, plane strain conditions. When subject to an electric field, the DEs exhibit a buckling instability for small elastocapillary numbers. For larger elastocapillary numbers, the DEs instead exhibi...