STUDY DESIGN A case controlled study with prospective data collection. PURPOSE To evaluate the early influence and the final consequence of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) on auto-local bone as a graft enhancer in posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE DBM is known as an osteoinductive material; however, it has not been clearly recognized to enhance auto-local bone...

cal evidence of which we are aware is that this technology is by far more complex than simply installing an automated-sorting scale unit and a set of one-way gates in a hog house. This complexity is evidenced by what appears to be incomplete animal adaptation, various design flaws, and unintended and un expected consequences of these systems. These problems – among others – have been confirmed ...

BACKGROUND Auto-CPAP machines used in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) are designed to vary the treatment pressure automatically in order always to apply the actually needed pressure. Consequently they should be able to achieve at least identical therapeutic effects as conventional constant pressure CPAP with a lower mean treatment pressure. The present study was designed to eval...

Introduction Auto-ignition of cooking oils causes a significant proportion of household fires [1,2]. In addition, the majority of the 50% of all accidental fires in hotels, restaurants and fast food outlets that start in kitchens involve liquid cooking oil or fat as the primary ignition source [3,4]. The potential risk of loss of life and property damage due to cooking oils fires is high. Cooki...

Cloud computing is becoming popular day by day, due to high performance. Computing resources are available anywhere at any time with ‘pay as you go’ model. Virtualization is playing an important role to provide cloud services to the end users via internet. Virtualization is the emulation of physical machine. Number of Virtual Machines (VM) can be created from physical machines and can be provid...

Web application providers have been migrating their applications to cloud data centers, attracted by the emerging cloud computing paradigm. One of the appealing features of cloud is elasticity. It allows cloud users to acquire or release computing resources on demand, which enables web application providers to auto-scale the resources provisioned to their applications under dynamic workload in ...

This article proposes to auto-encode text at byte-level using convolutional networks with a recursive architecture. The motivation is to explore whether it is possible to have scalable and homogeneous text generation at byte-level in a nonsequential fashion through the simple task of auto-encoding. We show that nonsequential text generation from a fixed-length representation is not only possibl...

A theory of detection limit, developed in analytical chemistry, is applied to public health surveillance to detect an outbreak of national emergencies such as natural disaster and bioterrorism. In this investigation, the influenza epidemic around the Tokyo area from 2003 to 2006 is taken as a model of normal and large-scale epidemics. The detection limit of the normal epidemic is used as a thre...