rhroughout the United States and Canada an estimated 80 percent of all major elective civilian amputations result from ischemia. All but a relatively few involve the lower extremity. Significant improvements in below-knee prostheses and important advances in surgical and postsurgical management now allow amputation below the knee in a majority of patients. In a consecutive series of 96 unselect...

If the initial segment Σ of Ω is a set, then it has a least strict upper bound S(Σ) ∈ Ω. Thus, for numbers α = S(Σ) and β = S(Σ′), α < β iff α ∈ Σ′; α = β iff Σ = Σ′; S(∅) is the least number 0 (although Cantor himself took the least number to be 1); if Σ has a greatest element γ, then α is its successor γ + 1; and if Σ is non-null and has no greatest element, then α is the least upper bound of...

We introduce the arctic matrix method for automatically proving termination of term rewriting. We use vectors and matrices over the arctic semi-ring: natural numbers extended with −∞, with the operations “max” and “plus”. This extends the matrix method for term rewriting and the arctic matrix method for string rewriting. In combination with the Dependency Pairs transformation, this allows for s...

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2 Director, Prosthetics Research Study, Seattle, Wash. AHE elective amputation must be considered plastic and reconstructive in nature. The need to create a dynamic and sensory motor end-organ should be foremost in the surgeon's mind in planning an amputation, and is emphasized here once more. The below-knee stump no longer hangs suspended in an open-end socket. The variable degrees of pressure...

In recent decades amputee management has advanced significantly. With the ad­ vent of blood flow studies and new surgical procedures, more knee joints are being saved. Physical therapists, using ad­ vanced facilitation techniques such as pro­ prioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF), are better able to restore limb strength, range of motion, and coordina­ tion. Advances in the field of pros...

Proof. Let us assume that G is planar but not free planar. Then there exists an edge xy not belonging to the graph whom adding to the graph it becomes non-planar. Then in G for an arbitrary cycle C through x, y there exists a pair of screening bridges Bx and By x from y with respect to C, i. e. either Bx and By are not placeable on one side against C or they are connected [i.e. not placeable to...

abstract background: hypoglycaemia is a well recognized complication of falciparum malaria in children but its diagnosis may be overlooked because all the clinical features may be mimicked by severe malaria. to determine the prevalence of hypoglycaemia at the point of hospital admission of under-fives with falciparum malaria and identify its risk factors in patients seen in a nigerian secondary...

The aim of this study was to assess the quality of documentation of head-injured patients seen in three accident and emergency (A&E) departments using a specially designed head injury pro forma. A 4-week prospective study of a single head injury pro forma was followed by a second similar study with an improved version (two head injury pro formas, one for young children and babies, the other for...

In this article weight, height, and circum­ference of chest and head of 251 new-born and neotes who were seen in the Paed,iatric Dept. of Djorjani Hospital, Tehran, and the report of this invesUgwtion is as follow:  1. Weight-3.98% of new-born were under normal range, and 64.93% were normal, and 31.07% were above normal. 2. Height -9.56% of new-born were be-low, 84.45% were normal and 5.9...