INTRODUCTION Close reduction by extension-block K-wire fixation for acute mallet fracture is based on two sound orthopedic principles - stable arc splinting and early protected motion. Distal interphalangeal joint splinting is still the technique commonly used for mallet fractures with significant morbidity and only moderate functional outcome. CASE REPORT We have demonstrated here Ishiguro's...

This document defines an extension block that may be used with the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) Bundle Protocol. This Metadata Extension Block is designed to carry additional information that DTN nodes can use to make processing decisions regarding bundles, such as deciding whether to store a bundle or determining to which nodes to forward a bundle. The metadata that is carried in a metadata...

Some basics of combinatorial block design are combined with certain constraint satisfaction problems of interest to the satisfiability community. The paper shows how such combinations lead to satisfiability problems, and shows empirically that these are some of the smallest very hard satisfiability problems ever constructed. Partially balanced (0; 1) designs (PB01Ds) are introduced as an extens...

An extension of the binary buddy system, called “tertiary buddy system" for dynamic storage allocation is presented in this work. Tertiary buddy system allows block sizes of 2 and 3.2 whereas the original binary buddy system allows only block sizes of 2. This extension is achieved at an additional cost of two bits per block. Simulation of the proposed algorithm has been implemented in C program...

The Caligo operations are performed on whole blocks only. No subdivision passes through an s-box or a Feistel network. The cipher definition is the same for any block size, allowing exhaustive search for statistical deviations on small block variants. I also propose CHash, a hash function that takes advantage of the cipher extensibility and resists the extension attack.

This report is devoted to the proof of the local (asymptotic) quadratic convergence of the serial block-Jacobi EVD algorithm for Hermitian matrices with multiple eigenvalues. At each iteration step, two off-diagonal blocks with the largest Frobenius norm are annihilated which is an extension of the ‘classical’ Jacobi approach to the block case.