results one-, three-, five-, and ten-year graft survival was 93.8%, 86.8%, 76.6%, and 37.4%, respectively. the results of the joint model showed that risk indicators, such as serum creatinine level (p < 0.0001, hr = 1.82), patient’s age (p = 0.006, hr = 1.03), and anti-thymocytes globulin (p = 0.019, hr = 2.57) had a significant relationship to graft survival. conclusions in general, our study ...

conclusions it was noted that a relatively high prevalence of growth failure was observed in the study sample. for minimizing the impact of significant risk factors on growth failure, the early detection of growth failure and its risk indicators is of great importance. in addition, when the focus of the analysis is on the different nested sources of variability and the data has a hierarchical s...

Various fixation techniques have been described for ruptured distal biceps tendons. The authors hypothesized that no significant differences would be found between the mean failure strength, maximum strength, and stiffness of the interference screw and hybrid technique. Fourteen fresh-frozen human cadaveric elbows were prepared. Specimens were randomized to either interference screw or hybrid c...

New elastoplastic J 2 -flow constitutive equations at finite deformations are proposed for the purpose of simulating the fatigue failure behavior for metal matrix composites. A new, direct approach is established in a two-fold sense of unification. Namely, both low and high cycle fatigue failure effects of metal matrix composites may be simultaneously simulated for various cases of the weight p...