BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study assessed subjectively and objectively the efficacy of a long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser system in clearing dermal leg veins, successful treatment of which remains problematic. STUDY DESIGN/PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty female patients (24-58 years old, skin types II-IV) with leg veins were treated with synchronized micropulses from a long-pulsed 1,064 nm Nd:YAG lase...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe general characteristics of patients with stroke who have a tendency to fall and to determine whether certain test instruments can identify fallers. METHODS Patients treated in a stroke unit during a 12-month period were included. At inclusion assessments were made with Berg Balance Scale Berg Balance Scale, Stops Walking When Talking, Timed Up &...

In this paper, we prompt public policy performance evaluation method based on local fractional algorithm. This paper takes the public value as a basic framework to build a system and it combines the execution process of ecological construction policies with the performance evaluation of the ecological effects. Then it extracts index factors from some aspects such as the "fairness" of the policy...

The first large-scale, international genetic evaluation of Holstein bulls computed by the International Bull Evaluation Service Centre in February 1995 was examined and compared with national evaluations from Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the US. Assumption of a genetic correlation of 0.995 between all countries and exclusion of bull daughters fr...

Answering to precise questions requires applying Natural Language techniques in order to locate the answers inside retrieved documents. The QALC system, presented in this paper, participated t o the Question Answering track of the TREC8 and TREC9 evaluations. QALC exploits an analysis of documents based on the search for multi-word terms and their variations. These indexes are used to select a ...

This paper describes the results of a long-term whole-body-vibration monitoring campaign performed on different cars with different drivers. The weighted and the un-weighted root-mean-square acceleration, the MTVV and the VDV have been monitored on five different cars in regular usage for over one hundred hours of measurements on urban roads and highways. The variability of the above parameters...

THE bispectral index (BIS, Aspect Medical Systems, Framingham, MA) is a complex electroencephalographic (EEG) parameter that integrates several disparate descriptors of the EEG into a single variable and correlates behavioral assessments of sedation and hypnosis. We report two cases in which the bispectral index failed to measure depth of anesthesia but instead was a measure of electromyographi...

In this paper, we proposed a three-point iterative method for finding the simple roots of non- linear equations via mid-point and interpolation approach. The method requires one evaluation of the derivative and three(3) functions evaluation with efficiency index of 81/4 ≈ 1.682. Numerical results reported here, between the proposed method with some other existing methods shows that our method i...

This paper mainly evaluates and analyzes the collaborative innovation ability of school-enterprise cooperation through the construction of key evaluation index system and model of the application. First, we construct the general evaluation index system. After screening with characteristics of group decision making method, we get the key evaluation index system. And then, we construct the two-le...