BACKGROUND Fixation of radial neck fractures can be achieved with a plate and screw construct or with two screws. This study evaluated the biomechanical properties of three different fixation methods following radial neck fractures. METHODS Twenty-four fourth-generation composite radii were sawed to simulate an unstable radial neck fracture. They were then instrumented with a plate and screw ...

Drop plate technique has a priority and preference compared with the spread plate procedure, because of less time, quantity of media, effort requirement, little incubator space, and less labor intensive. The objective of this research was to compare the accuracy and fidelity of drop plate method vs. spread plate method by parametric and nonparametric statistical tests. For bacterial enumeration...

in a clinical trial a new pyrrolidonyl-β-naphthylamide (pyr) hydrolysis test was compared with the bacitracin disk susceptibility test for accuracy in the presumptive identification of group a streptococci (gas). among 128 isolates of beta-hemolytic streptococci 93 group a isolates were found. the sensitivity of the pyr and bacitracin tests were similar (98.9%), but the bacitracin test had a lo...

results all doses of g. vitellinum extract induced anti-nociception activity during the first and second phases of the formalin test. the extract showed a significant (p < 0.05) dose-related inhibition during the first phase compared to the control group. in the second phase of the formalin test, the extract showed analgesic activity comparable to the effect of morphine. in pre-treatment with n...

Digit recognition for license plate recognition is a core process, simplicity on the algorithm to recognize digits on the LPR context is of importance, given that there is an ever increasing vehicle flow and need for recognizing license plates on different environments and applications such as: unattended parking lots, automatic toll collection, traffic supervision, access control of restricted...