The coexistence of myelomeningocele (MMC) and split cord malformation (SCM) is a well-known phenomenon. The SCM is usually above or at the level of the MMC. Split cord malformation distal to the MMC is considered to be the rarest form of such a combination. We report a case of SCM (type I) distal to the MMC diagnosed pre-operatively. Repair of the MMC and the SCM were carried out in the same se...

In total, 240 pigs were used to compare growth performance and carcass quality traits of immunocastrated males (ICM), surgically castrated males (SCM), and intact females (IF) of crossbreds from Large White × Landrace females and Duroc (DU) or Pietrain (PI) sires destined to the dry-cured industry. Between the 2 Improvac injections (87 and 137 d of age), ICM and IF had less ADG than SCM (P < 0....

Based on a web based survey of 158 IT software development practitioners, mostly from different organizations, this paper examines the application of Software Configuration Management (SCM) process in adaptable software development environments. From the literature review six independent variables and five dependent variables were derived to answer the research question “how does organization s...

Many people living with HIV desire childbearing, but low cost safer conception methods (SCM) such as timed unprotected intercourse (TUI) and manual self-insemination (MSI) are rarely used. We examined awareness and attitudes towards SCM, and the correlates of these constructs among 400 HIV clients with fertility intentions in Uganda. Measures included awareness, self-efficacy, and motivation re...

Today’s competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demand in global market, Supply Chain Management (SCM) must be agile and flexible enough. In agile SCM, some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve its performance. This paper explored th...

In this paper we develop a Stochastic Collocation Method (SCM) for flow in randomly heterogeneous porous media. At first, the Karhunen-Loève expansion is taken to decompose the log transformed hydraulic conductivity field, which leads to a stochastic PDE that only depends on a finite number of i.i.d. Gaussian random variables. Based on the eigenvalue decay property and a rough error estimate of...

The articles [15], [8], [9], [10], [14], [11], [18], [2], [4], [6], [7], [5], [16], [1], [3], [19], [20], [12], [17], and [13] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. For simplicity, we adopt the following rules: a, b are data-locations, i1, i2, i3 are instruction-locations of SCM, s1, s2 are states of SCM, T is an instruction type of SCM, and k is a natural number. We now state a ...

INTRODUCTION Nicotine dependence is a chronic disorder often characterized by multiple failed quit attempts (QAs). Yet, little is known about the sequence of methods used across multiple QAs or how this may impact future ability to abstain from smoking. This prospective cohort study examines the effectiveness of switching smoking-cessation medications (SCMs) across multiple QAs. METHODS Adult...

Salmonella chromogenic medium (SCM; Oxoid, Basingstoke, United Kingdom), a new selective chromogenic medium, was compared to DCLS agar (Oxoid) for the detection and presumptive identification of Salmonella species from stool samples. This medium contains two chromogenic substrates, Magenta-cap (5-bromo-6-chloro-3-indolylcaprylate), which is hydrolyzed by Salmonella species to give magenta colon...