OBJECTIVES To evaluate and compare nonoperative treatment methods for traumatic thoracic and lumbar compression fractures and burst fractures. DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial with long-term follow-up. SETTING Two general hospitals in the Netherlands. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS Patients with a traumatic thoracic or lumbar spine fracture, without neurologic damage, with less than ...

PURPOSE Monocytes actively participate in inflammatory mechanisms that contribute to the development of adipose tissue dysfunction and atherogenesis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of monocyte CCR2 chemokine receptor expression and intracellular oxidative burst with the metabolic and inflammatory factors related to body weight. METHODS The study was performed in 67 post...

This paper describes a low-complexity generic receiver for burst-mode continuous phase modulation. The burst consists of a continuous wave (CW) signal followed by a pseudorandom sequence and a data sequence modulated by continuous phase modulation (CPM). Joint coarse carrier frequency, phase and time synchronization is performed on the CW signal. Fine time synchronization is performed on the ps...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to characterize the relationship between ICP and EEG METHODS: Simultaneous ICP and EEG data were obtained from burst-suppressed patients and segmented by EEG bursts. Segments were categorized as increasing/decreasing and peak/valley to investigate relationship between ICP changes and EEG burst duration. A generalized ICP response was obtained by averagi...

Strength additives play an important role in allowing the papermaking industry to achieve its objectives. In this study, a new kind of paper strengthening agent based on glucomannan was developed by treating it with sodium chloroacetate under alkaline conditions, and the effects on paper properties were evaluated. Results indicated that carboxymethylated glucomannan could significantly improve ...

Rock burst is the most attractive and hot research area in geomechanics, mining, and civil engineering due to the increasing depth of mines and construction of deep underground structures. It has also been a severe problem in ground control measures in the last few decades. Many studies have been done by different researchers in order to minimize the hazards of rock burst and to provide a safe ...

conclusions the results indicated that sod-loaded in sln was delivered into deep burned skin layer and induced high enzyme activity through the skin. low particle size, application of lecithin as surfactant and low crystallinity index (ci) percentage were important factors for increasing sod penetration through the burned rat skin. percentage of activity by sln dispersions through rat skin was ...

— The spectra of the majority of bursts exhibit a low-energy power law index, α, that is either a constant or becomes softer with time. However, in the burst of 30 May 1996 α becomes harder. Here we show that this behavior can be explained by a hybrid model consisting of a thermal and a non-thermal component. In this burst the power-law index of the non-thermal component changes drastically fro...

How to provide high throughput performance is a major challenge in the design of MAC protocol for next generation wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal area networks (WPANs). To achieve this goal, frame-burst-based CSMA/CA protocols have been proposed recently in both academia and industry. The main idea of the frame-burst-based protocol is to aggregate multiple upperlayer ...