Introduction Bone mineral density (BMD) measured using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is typically used to assess fracture risk. However, other factors such as bone size and the forward momentum of a fall (a function of body size) can also potentially influence fracture risk, but are understudied. This report describes the characteristics of a cohort of Caucasian pre- and postmenopausal...

INTRODUCTION Using network meta-analysis, we evaluated the adverse effects of the seven most common treatment methods, i.e., bridging external fixation, non-bridging external fixation, K-wire fixation, plaster fixation, dorsal plating, volar plating, and dorsal and volar plating, by their associated risk of developing complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in distal radius fracture (DRF) patient...

Purpose: To determine whether splint material affects the success of non-operative management pediatric forearm fractures treated with sugartong splints.
 Methods: All patients aged 0-18 a traumatic fracture requiring reduction were enrolled prospectively and randomized to fiberglass or plaster splints. Patients closed physes, open, pathologic, non-displaced not reduction, >1 week after...

BACKGROUND A distal radius fracture (DRF) is a common injury that can cause significant pain and lead to a prolonged decrease in physical, emotional, and social functioning. In modern randomized clinical trials, assessing outcomes after a DRF, health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) is a "must-be" endpoint. Additionally, HRQoL assessments are essential in the clinical decision-making process. Th...

In this work, we used the depth resolution function (DRF) of the secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to deconvolve the boron depth profile of nanometer-thin embedded diamond layers. Thanks to an isotopic change within a thin layer, where carbon-12 (C) and carbon-13 (C) are substituted, the DRF was evaluated by a self-consistent algorithm. In a second step, this DRF was used to deconvolve the...

introduction: it has been suggested that calculation of differential renal function (drf) using 99mtc-dmsa may lead to overestimation of the function of an obstructed kidney. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diuretic administration on the determination of drf using 99mtc-dmsa scintigraphy in patients with dilated pelvis. methods: thirty three patients, aged from 2 months to 6...

Three-dimensional (3D) fullwave analysis of a microwave dielectric resonator filter (DRF) in a rectangular metallic enclosure is presented. By using a 3D finite-element method (FEM) to perform numerical simulations, parameters and predictions that are difficult to measure but actually affect the performance of a microwave DRF can be accurately determined. In the process, a significant phenomeno...

The performance of cluster computing depends on how concurrent jobs share multiple data center resource types like CPU, RAM and disk storage. Recent research has discussed efficiency and fairness requirements and identified a number of desirable scheduling objectives including so-called dominant resource fairness (DRF). We argue here that proportional fairness (PF), long recognized as a desirab...

In the following, we present example illustrative and experimental results comparing fair schedulers allocating resources (indexed r) from multiple servers (indexed i, with resource capacities ci,r) to distributed application frameworks (indexed r, with resource demands per task di,r). Resources are allocated so that at least one resource r is exhausted in every server. Schedulers considered in...

Pain management and opioid consumption after distal radius fracture (DRF) open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) are highly variable and poorly understood. To optimize postoperative opioid dosage and better understand opioid consumption patterns after DRF-ORIF, we conducted a prospective study with the hypothesis that opioid consumption would increase with worsening fracture classification...