A systematic review of published evidence was conducted investigating surgical and conservative management of rotator cuff disease. Medical databases searched included Medline, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), and the Cochrane Collaboration library. Two independent reviewers evaluated each article for inclusion. ...

This paper covers the processes of ghettoization in socially excluded areas in the Czech Republic that are settled mainly by the Roma. I have attempted to document the logic of ghettoization using the case of an area called Poschla that emerged in Vsetín in 2006. On the basis of semistructured interviews with inhabitants and social workers, I endeavoured to find out whether Poschla was in the p...

In this paper a new algorithm to restore semi-transparent blotches (or water blotches) in vintage photographic prints is proposed. It works in two steps: the first stage is based on an additive/multiplicative model the optimal parameters of which are searched for around the area to be restored. The second one performs an interpolation along the gradient direction on the contour. The results obt...

There are many existing software tools for identifying specific and severe IT security threats (virus checkers, firewalls). But it is more difficult to detect less severe and more general problems, such as disclosure of sensitive or private data. In theory, security problems could be detected with existing tools, but the amount of information provided is often too overwhelming. FCA is a promisi...

By applying a hexagon-diamond search (HDS) method to an ultrasound image, the path of an object is able to be monitored by extracting images into macro-blocks, thereby achieving image redundancy is reduced from one frame to another, and also ascertaining the motion vector within the parameters searched. The HDS algorithm uses six search points to form the six sides of the hexagon pattern, a cen...

The oldest known game tree search algorithm Alpha-Beta is still the most popular one. All other algorithms in this area fall short of Alpha-Beta in one or more of the following three desired characteristics high pruning power, low storage requirement and low execution time. This paper discusses how revisit of nodes can be used effectively in game tree search. A few strategies of introducing rev...

Mesotherapy refers to multiple injections of small quantity of the drug over a large area. The mesoguns available are expensive and the motor-driven models tends to waste the expensive material to be injected since the plunger stops after injecting without recoil. We searched for a less expensive device which would inject like the mesogun and still not waste the solution. On searching the web, ...

This report focuses on the relationship between traffic anomalies and the data collected by the RIPE Atlas measurement network. Two distinct vectors of research are used: first, a ground-truth search which looks to see in what degree real-life network events reflect in the RIPE Atlas data, and second, the collected data is analyzed to find the time and location where several probes’ measurement...

Body sizes of insular mammals often differ strikingly from those of their mainland conspecifics. Small islands have reduced numbers of competitor and predator species, and more limited resources. Such reductions are believed to select for predictable changes in body sizes, with large mammals growing progressively smaller as island area decreases, while small ones grow progressively larger. Medi...

We propose an architecture and protocol for semantically rich information retrieval from a subject-speci c corpus of information objects. The technique assumes that information objects have been labeled using small directed graphs, called content labels. A content label subsumes the role of an abstract. Both content labels and queries are required to conform with a general framework (ontology) ...