Abstract 30 year old male, who had been hit at 90mph whilst on a motorbike sustaining femoral, tibial and right foot open fractures. He underwent an reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of his lateral femoral condyle, retrograde nail, ORIF the tibia. 2 separate free flaps (a chimera scapular/parascapular antero-lateral thigh-ALT) to lower leg, split skin grafting remainder limb. Upon regular post...

Though land use regression (LUR) models have been widely utilized to simulate air pollution distribution, unclear spatial scale effects of contributing characteristic variables usually make results study-specific. In this study, LUR models for PM2.5 in Houston Metropolitan Area, US were developed under scales of 100 m, 300 m, 500 m, 800 m, and 1000–5000 m with intervals of 500 m by employing th...

We consider the linear complementarity problem (LCP): Mz + q ≥ 0, z ≥ 0, z′(Mz + q) = 0 as an absolute value equation (AVE): (M + I)z + q = |(M − I)z + q|, where M is an n× n square matrix and I is the identity matrix. We propose a concave minimization algorithm for solving (AVE) that consists of solving a few linear programs, typically two. The algorithm was tested on 500 consecutively generat...

Sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS) at 500 microgram/ml, but not sodium amylosulfate (SAS) at 500 microgram/ml, precipitated egg white lysozyme (1 mg and 50 microgram of lysozyme per ml) as determined with the assay strain Micrococcus lysodeikticus ATCC 4698. Fresh and heat-inactivated (56 degrees C, 30 min) human serum (80%, vol/vol) killed M. lysodeikticus (10(4) bacteria per ml at zero time) ...

Aerosol detection and monitoring by satellite observations has been substantially developed over the past decades. While several state-of-the-art aerosol retrieval techniques provide aerosol properties at global scale, high spatial detail that is suitable for urbanized regions is unavailable because most of the satellite-based products are at coarse resolution. A refined aerosol retrieval algor...