OBJECTIVE Conventional open spinal surgery of adult scoliosis can be performed from anterior, posterior, or combined approach. Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) was developed for the purpose of reducing the undesirable effects and complications. This review aimed to make a brief summary of recent studies of the approach and clinical outcomes of MISS in adult scoliosis. DATA SOURCES We c...

The new appointees a r c : Miss lunula M, Besig, Carleton A. Moose, Miss M. Annette Dobbin, Miss Helen James , Miss Marion Redway, Russell K. Hickman, Donald Bryant, Miss Eleanor Man ley, Miss Mary E. Conklin. Miss Alice Gooding, Dr. Karl Dorwald t and Miss Helen T. Fay. Three of I lie appointees are graduates uf State College, Mr. Moose, '26, will return from a year of advanced study at Cornel...

The issue queue keeps the instructions that are waiting for the availability of input operands and issue slots. While some instructions remain for a few cycles in the issue queue, the instructions dependent on L2 misses may remain there for hundreds of cycles due to the L2 miss latency. Some authors have proposed mechanisms to extract these instructions from the issue queue. However, these mech...

OBJECTIVES The World Health Organization has recommended investigating near-misses as a benchmark practice for monitoring maternal healthcare and has standardized the criteria for diagnosis. We aimed to study maternal morbidity and mortality among women admitted to a general intensive care unit during pregnancy or in the postpartum period, using the new World Health Organization criteria. MET...

The objective of the study was to evaluate performance a vacuum single-seed planter in field conditions optimize some operating parameters maize production. Three forward speed tractor (4.0, 5.4 and 7.9 km h-1) five target seed spacing (102, 147, 195, 247 309 mm) were evaluated by examining mean spacing, coefficient precision miss index, multiple quality feed sowing depth, deviation from row (i...