Several modifications in surgical techniques and various pharmacological and non pharmacological modalities have been introduced to prevent adhesions formation in surgery on flexor tendons of the hand. However, most studies have been carried out in animals with very few human trials. Only early postoperative rehabilitation is supported by clinical evidence, while the optimal rehabilitation prot...

The development of the Drosophila leg requires both Decapentaplegic (Dpp) and Wingless (Wg), two signals that establish the proximo-distal (PD) axis by activating target genes such as Distalless (Dll). Dll expression in the leg depends on a Dpp- and Wg-dependent phase and a maintenance phase that is independent of these signals. Here, we show that accurate Dll expression in the leg results from...

Advances in the area of active database management systems require the development of a trigger design theory, which guides the user in the deenition oo well-behaving trigger based applications. The development of such a theory requires a formal deenition of trigger semantics. This paper describes a framework for such a formalisation of triggers. That is, the parameters of trigger execution and...

A new Schmitt trigger circuit, which consists of low-voltage devices, can receive the high-voltage signal without gate-oxide reliability problem, is proposed. The new proposed circuit, which can operate in a 3.3 V signal environment without suffering high-voltage gate-oxide stress, has been fabricated in a 0.13 μm 1/2.5 V CMOS process. The experimental results show that the measured transition ...

Memory consolidation for a trained sequence of finger opposition movements, in 9- and 12-year-old children, was recently found to be significantly less susceptible to interference by a subsequent training experience, compared to that of 17-year-olds. It was suggested that, in children, the experience of training on any sequence of finger movements may affect the performance of the sequence elem...

Shooting a firearm involves a complex series of cognitive abilities. For example, locating an item or a person of interest requires visual search, and firing the weapon (or withholding a trigger squeeze) involves response execution (or inhibition). The present study used a simulated shooting environment to establish a relationship between a particular cognitive ability and a critical shooting e...

Second language vocabulary can be learned incidentally while the learner is engaged in extensive reading or reading for meaning, inferring the meaning of unknown words (Huckin & Coady, 1999; Hulstijn, 1992; Krashen, 1993; Pigada & Schmitt, 2006). 12 Korean learners of English read authentic literary texts and were tested on their knowledge of vocabulary before reading (pretest), immediately aft...

In this paper, we propose a content-based recommendation approach in the domain of e-recruitment to recommend users with job offers that suit the most their profile and learned preferences. In order to present the best offers, we construct a semantic vocabulary of the domain from the job offers corpus and initialize a profile for each user based on his Curriculum Vitae. Our method is enriching ...

The "Broadcast Trigger" design patterns focuses on the co-ordination of distributed autonomous components, which are co-operating in order to accomplish a common task, for example a robot assembling a mobile phone. The pattern enables a central coordinator to control the distributed consecutive actions using a time-optimised interaction scheme. Actions are prepared from "aside the critical path...