Many Cases Need to Be Reviewed to Compare Performance in Surgical Pathology?

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

How Many Conflicts Does It Need to Be Unsatisfiable?

A pair of clauses in a CNF formula constitutes a conflict if there is a variable that occurs positively in one clause and negatively in the other. Clearly, a CNF formula has to have conflicts in order to be unsatisfiable—in fact, there have to be many conflicts, and it is the goal of this paper to quantify how many. An unsatisfiable k-CNF has at least 2 clauses; a lower bound of 2 for the numbe...

Does the current treatment of invasive fungal infection need to be reviewed?

Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are becoming more frequent due to the increasing number of patients at risk. Over the last decade, their prognosis has improved with the diagnostic and therapeutic advances, including new antifungals. In the two years, from 2007 to 2009, antifungal consumption increased by 27%, 67 times more than antibacterial consumption, albeit with great differences between ...

How Many Fish Need to Be Measured to Effectively Evaluate Trawl Selectivity?

The aim of this study was to provide practitioners working with trawl selectivity with general and easily understandable guidelines regarding the fish sampling effort necessary during sea trials. In particular, we focused on how many fish would need to be caught and length measured in a trawl haul in order to assess the selectivity parameters of the trawl at a designated uncertainty level. We a...

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