BACKGROUND Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) is a traction apophysitis of the tibial tuberosity. Ultrasonography (US) is able to detect pathologic changes, such as cartilage swelling and fragmentation of the tibial tubercle ossification center. PURPOSE To compare the US stages of tibial tuberosity development and the physical features and prevalence of OSD in this patient cohort. STUDY DESIGN ...

In this paper, we develop a density evolution (DE) framework for analyzing the iterative joint decoding (JD) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, where ordered-statistics (OSD) is applied to decode short block codes. We first investigate density-transform feature of soft-output OSD (SOSD), by deriving extrinsic log-likelihood ratio (LLR) with known densities priori LLR. Then, represen...

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Wind power systems participating in primary frequency regulation have become a novel trend. In order to solve the problem of over-speed deloading (OSD) control wind failing provide reserved capacity for while under turbulent winds, this paper analyzes influence mechanism turbulence characteristics on OSD and relationship between reserve coefficient speeds, also quantifying characteristic index ...

Several formalisms for implementing organizational policies that assign specij2 roles to agents in a MAS have been proposed like the contract net protocol (CNP), the social reasoning mechanism (SRIM), and the distributed computational economy (DCE). Organization self design (OSD) had been proposed to achieve load balancing in a distributed environment. In this paper we propose an adaptive organ...

Juniors (mostly) took to the streets in unprecedented numbers as doctor-state relations reached an all-time low, with on-off punitive state measures and Health Professions Council censure. Controversy over patient care and the government refusing to sign a minimum service level with emergency services raged back and forth. In terms of the agreement, SAMA accepted what was tabled, on condition t...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of the Osgood-Schlatter's disease (OSD) is still debated. The fragmentation of the ossification centre has been questioned as a definitive sign of OSD and has been seen as a normal development of the anterior tibial tubercle (ATT). OBJECTIVES It is unknown if such changes are present in the presumed pathological tendon insertion seen in OSD, nor the relation of Dop...

in this paper, the problem of layout optimization for x-bracing of steel frames is studied using the ant system (as). a new design method is employed to share the gravity and the lateral loads between the main frame and the bracings according to the requirements of the ibc2006 code. an algorithm is developed which is called optimum steel designer (osd). an optimization method based on an approx...