Staple Diagram

Akin osteotomy: good staple positioning

Akin osteotomy is a common component of hallux valgus surgery. Holding the osteotomy in good position with a well placed staple can prove difficult. To aid this, a marker pen is used to apply ink to the tip of the proximal limb of the staple (Fig 1). A hole is drilled in the distal bone and the non-inked staple limb is inserted while the osteotomy is held in the desired position. This causes tr...

A Tutorial Introduction to STAPLE

Introduction STAPLE is an expectation-maximization algorithm for Simultaneous Truth And Performance Level Estimation. The algorithm considers a collection of segmentations and computes a probabilistic estimate of the hidden, implicit, true segmentation and a measure of the performance level achieved by each segmentation. The source of each segmentation in the collection may be an appropriately ...

Biofortification of Staple Food Crops: Six Questions

More than half the world’s population suffers from micronutrient malnutrition. Biofortification of staple food crops is a new public health approach to control vitamin A, iron, and zinc deficiencies in poor countries. Biofortification is the development of micronutrient‐dense staple crops using traditional breeding practices and modern biotechnology. It has multiple advantages: it capitalizes o...

The Long Staple Weavable Singles Yarn

Quantification of ferritin from staple food crops.

Ferritin-iron has been shown to be as bioavailable as ferrous sulfate in humans. Thus, biofortification to breed crops with high ferritin content is a promising strategy to alleviate the global iron deficiency problem. Although ferritin is present in all food crops, its concentration varies between species and varieties. Therefore, a successful ferritin biofortification strategy requires a meth...