While congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) can occur along with other conditions, such as clavicle fracture or brachial plexus injury, these conditions exist outside the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM). We present a rare case with concurrence of CMT and a malignant tumor inside the same SCM, along with serial clinical and radiological findings of the atypical features of CMT. The malignant tu...

The contribution of the sternocleidomastoid branch of the occipital artery (superior arterial pedicle-SAP) to the irrigation of the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) was evaluated in fresh human cadavers by injecting radiological dye and a resin for microvasculature corrosion casts. From its insertion in the mastoid process of the temporal bone, the SCM was divided into superior, medium, and inf...

BACKGROUND The knowledge of the exact anatomy of the sternocleidomastoid (SCM) muscle and its nerve and blood supply must be considered a basic prerequisite for its use as a pedicle muscle flap. OBJECTIVE To give an exact description of the courses and variability of all vessels supplying the SCM muscle. DESIGN Anatomic analysis of all arteries supplying the SCM muscle. SETTING The blood ...

Adversarial relationships have long dominated business relationships, but Supply Chain Management (SCM) entails a new perspective. SCM requires a movement away from arms-length relationships toward partnership style relations. SCM involves integration, co-ordination and collaboration across organisations and throughout the supply chain. It means that SCM requires internal (intraorganisational) ...

Process improvement in a large-scale industrial environment is a challenge for numerous reasons. Besides others it is difficult to convince and motivate a critical mass of the staff and it is particularly expensive to train a large number of developers and managers. Established Software Configuration Management (SCM) practices pave the way to improve in a more efficient “bottom-up fashion” by p...

Software configuration management (SCM) is a key element of the software development process. A number of new configuration management techniques in commercial SCM tools and environments with SCM capabilities have been observed. This report illustrates some of the advances in SCM concepts by example of a particular commercial system: the Sun Network Software Environment (NSE). NSE embodies a tr...

The digitization of clock has brought us enormous conveniences and the development of the special-purpose clock chip would extend the traditional functions of clock. In this article, we design a new calendar clock based on DS12C887 chip and AT89C52 SCM. The system includes 5 parts: the AT89C52 SCM module, the calendar clock module, the LED display module, serial communication module and the C51...

The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum which promotes high-quality research regarding the trading agent problem. One of the TAC competitive scenarios is Supply Chain Management (SCM) where six agents compete by buying components, assembling PCs from these components and selling the manufactured PCs to customers. The idea of TAC SCM is the development of agent-based archit...

When deploying new SCM (software configuration management) tools, implementers sometimes focus on perfecting fine-grained activities, while unwittingly carrying forward poor, large-scale practices from their previous jobs or previous tools. The result is a well-executed blunder. This paper promotes some high-level best practices that reflect the authors’ experiences in deploying SCM. High-level...

We develop a higher level terminology for the SCM machine defined by Nakamura and Trybulec in [5]. Among numerous technical definitions and lemmas we define a complexity measure of a halting state of SCM and a loader for SCM for arbitrary finite sequence of instructions. In order to test the introduced terminology we discuss properties of eight shortest halting programs, one for each instruction.