BACKGROUND AND AIMS Morphological diversity of leaves is usually quantified with geometrical characters, while in many cases a simple set of biophysical parameters are involved in constraining size and shape. One of the main physiological functions of the leaf is transpiration and thus one can expect that leaf hydraulic parameters can be used to predict potential morphologies, although with the...

Background: To assess the efficacy of flexible intramedullary Enders nails(EN) for the treatment of femoral and tibial diaphyseal fractures in children. Methods: In this descriptive study, thirty patients treated with EN, for femoral and tibial shaft fractures were included. Hole was drilled on medial and lateral sides of bone and passage was created by bone awl. EN, attached to the T-handle, ...

Advisor: l\[ichacl Hoffman The continual push for smaller size and decreased power consumption has prompted the adoption of class D amplification for speaker and headphone drivers in portable media devices. \Vith proper design, the power efficiency of this amplifier type can exceed any other topology over the whole output range, even at low output levels. Simple amplifier topologies arc not the...

Die Erstellung fehlerfreier Software hat im Bereich der Automatisierungstechnik einen hohen Stellenwert. Ein Fehlverhalten von Steuerungen kann in Automatisierungsanlagen leicht zu hohen Sachschäden oder gar Personenschäden führen. Ein Ansatz zur Fehlervermeidung und gleichzeitiger Effizienzsteigerung ist das Arbeiten mit Modellen und Prüfen von Randbedingungen an dem Modell und anschließendem ...

In his 1989 paper on Canadian dialects, Jack Chambers says he fears the demise of "the most distinctly Canadian sound the source of the "aboot the hoose comments [or Canadian Raising] from Canadian English." Chambers is referring to the fact that Canadians seem to have replaced the Raising Rule with a Fronting Rule, so that the segments he is referring to (i.e. /awl) now tend to be pronounced n...

Distal radius fractures, the most common long bone fracture, are treated in several ways, including closed reduction, percutaneous pinning, external fixation, and open reduction and internal fixation. This article presents a surgical technique and a series of patients treated with a novel minimally invasive intramedullary fixation technique. The implant is a partially flexible intramedullary ro...

Database transformations are a frequent problem for data managers supporting scientific databases, particularly those connected with the Human Genome Project. The databases involved frequently contain complex data-structures not typically found in conventional databases, such as arbitrarily nested records, sets, variants and optional fields, as well as object identities and recursive data-struc...

Spatial quality and spectral quality are the two important indexes that are used to evaluate the quality of any fused image. Most of the existing methods for this purpose, however, considered only the spectral quality except for that proposed by Zhou et al., while the latter cannot be used to compare directly the spatial resolution between the fused image and original high-resolution. A new spa...

Hair follicles have characteristic sizes corresponding to their cycle-specific stage. However, how the anagen hair follicle specifies its size remains elusive. Here, we showed that in response to prolonged ectopic Wnt10b-mediated β-catenin activation, regenerating anagen hair follicles grew larger in size. In particular, the hair bulb, dermal papilla and hair shaft became enlarged, while the fo...

English is widely known as a language containing number of near-synonyms, i.e. words with similar meaning, and therefore learners are often confronted difficulty in the use near-synonyms different contexts. This corpus-informed study aims to differentiate synonyms primary, main , major focusing on their distribution across genres collocation usage. The three target were selected majo r among fi...