Arthrodesis of the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint is a reliable means of achieving pain relief in a symptomatic DIP joint afflicted by a variety of degenerative, inflammatory, or posttraumatic conditions. Successful arthrodesis is more reproducible when rigid compression of the joint is achieved. The emergence of an increasing number of commercially available headless or variable pitch comp...

SYNOPSIS The introduction of the dip inoculum technique has nmade possible the immediate culture of urines which in the normal way might take a number of hours to reach the laboratory. We have used this technique in conjunction with conventional methods of culture to try to ascertain whether the delay in transit normally encountered in this hospital affects materially the clinical significance ...

Basic Idea: The quantity of microbial biomass in a given soil sample is inherently difficult to measure. To some degree, any measurement of microbial biomass is relative – different methodologies or variations in methodologies will yield microbial biomass estimates that are not directly comparable. For this reason, if you want to measure microbial biomass – choose a method and stick with it exa...

Localized changes in oxygen consumption related to increased neural activity can result in a small and transient "initial dip" of the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal used in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The initial dip has been of great interest to the fMRI community because it may provide a more accurate and localized measure of neural activity than the convent...

The nongenotoxic-cytotoxic carcinogen chloroform induces liver necrosis, regenerative cell proliferation, and, eventually, liver tumors in female B6C3F1 mice when administered by gavage at doses of 238 or 477 mg/kg/d. Administration of 1800 ppm of chloroform in the drinking water results in similar daily doses but does not produce liver toxicity or cancer. The differential-display technique was...

umerous reports assessing the value of the Uricult method in the diagnosis of urinary infections have been published since this procedure was first used in 1965." " As there appeared to be considerable divergence of views on certain aspects of the recommended procedure, it was decided to carry out a comparison of the Uricult method with the standard quantitative technique as used in this hospit...

An angle-dependent reflection coefficient is recovered by seismic migration in the angle domain. We have developed a postmigration technique for computing scattering and dip angle common-image gathers (CIGs) from seismic images, extended by the subsurface offset, based on wave-equation migration methods. Our methodology suggests a system of Radon transform operators by introducing local transfo...

An angle-dependent reflection coefficient is recovered by seismic migration in the angle-domain. We propose a post-migration technique for computing scattering and dip angle common-image gathers (CIGs) from seismic images, extended by the subsurface offset, in relation with wave-equation migration methods. Our methodology suggests a system of Radon transform operators by introducing local trans...

Information can propagate among Online Social Network (OSN) users at a high speed, which makes the OSNs become important platforms for viral marketing. Although the viral marketing related problems in OSNs have been extensively studied in the past decade, the existing works all assume known propagation rates and are not able to solve the scenario when the rates may dynamically increase for popu...

In the present paper, we introduced an arc recognition technique suitable for irregular isothetic object. It is based on the digital inter-pixel (DIP) circle model, a pixel-based representation of the Kovalevsky’s circle. The adaptation to irregular image structurations allows us to apply DIP models for circle recognition in noisy digital contours. More precisely, the noise detector from Keraut...