Morphea is a localized form of scleroderma in which there is predominant skin involvement, with occasional involvement of subjacent muscles and usually spares the internal organs. Thyroid dysfunction has been reported in systemic sclerosis but it has been rarely reported in morphea. There are few case reports of plaque-type morphea associated with autoimmune thyroiditis but generalized morphea ...

Lumbar lateral recess stenosis that results from a degenerative bulging of the disc and overgrowth of the facet is a very common cause for lumbar radiculopathy in the elderly. The standard surgical treatment for symptomatic lumbar lateral recess stenosis often requires a laminectomy or hemi-laminectomy and medial facetectomy which can further destabilize a pathological motion segment. The autho...

The distributed nature of fog computing is designed to alleviate bottleneck traffic congestion which happens when a massive number devices try connect more powerful resources simultaneously. Fog focuses on bringing data processing geographically closer source utilizing existing such as routers and switches. This heterogeneity an important feature challenge at the same time. To enhance availabil...

The historical data on the consumption of spares are usually available in the form that the renewal function of the item could not easily be obtained by the process described by Cox1. In this paper, b technique is discussed as to how such data be used for the renewal functions through Bayesian approach. A Beta a Priori density for the parameter of Poisson demand is assumed and the Predictive de...

The Misonix BoneScalpel is a novel ultrasonic surgical device that cuts bone and spares soft tissues. This relative selectivity for bone ablation makes BoneScalpel ideally suited for spine applications where bone must be cut adjacent to dura and neural structures. Extensive clinical experience with this device confirms its safety and efficacy in spine surgery. The aim of this report is to descr...

We compared the practice of four orthopaedic consultants as regards the use of MRI and arthroscopy to diagnose problems of the knee. In one year 324 arthroscopies and 66 MR scans were performed for this purpose. We found that MRI is a reliable and cheaper alternative to 'diagnostic arthroscopy'. We consider that patients with definite clinical signs merit an early 'therapeutic arthroscopy', but...

We exploit Bayesian criteria for designing an M/M/c//r queueing system with spares. This problem arises in many applications of the so-called machine interference problem, like job-shop type systems, telecommunication traffic, semiconductor manufacturing and transport. We exemplify our approach by a problem from aeronautic maintenance, where the numbers of repair crews c and spare planes s must...

Dividing a dose into a number of fractions spares normal tissues because of repair of SLD between dose fractions and repopulation of cells if the overall time is sufficiently long. At the same time dividing a dose into a number of fractions increases the damage to the tumor because of reoxygenation and reassortment of cells into radiosensitive phases of the cell cycles between dose fractions. T...