of the Caucasian population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the morphometry of the proximal tibia in thestandard resected surface of total knee arthroplasty (TKA).Methods: In this descriptive study, the anthropometric data of the proximal tibia were measured in 132 knees (80 malesand 52 females) using magnetic resonance imaging in 2015. The collected data include...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate ECG and haemodynamic alterations provoked by a test dose of bupivacaine, epinephrine, and their combination. METHODS Paediatric patients undergoing general anaesthesia were randomized into three groups. After anaesthesia induction and tracheal intubation, 0.2 ml kg(-1) (max. 3 ml) of the corresponding test solution was i.v. injected: bupivac...

Objective(s): K+ channel blocker 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) stimulates the release of glutamate from nerve terminals and induces seizures. Berberine as a potential herbal drug exerts several pharmacological actions on the central nervous system including anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, and neuroprotective properties. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of berberine on seizure onset and ti...

We address the trade-off between system throughput and user equipment (UE) fairness in dynamic time division duplex (TDD) cell-free (CF)-massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, developing to that end a joint access point (AP) configuration, power allocation, beamforming design scheme. Unlike state-of-the-art (SotA) methods, which mostly focus on sum-rate maximization or max-min ...

In this study, we show that beam model differences play an important role in the comparison of does calculated with various algorithms for lung cancer treatment planning. These differences may impact the accurate correlation of dose with clinical outcome. To accomplish this, we modified the beam model penumbral parameters in an equivalent path length (EPL) algorithm and subsequently compared th...

BACKGROUND A narrow internal auditory canal (IAC) is significantly associated with congenital sensorineural hearing loss. It would therefore seem likely that any patient with an IAC measured radiographically to be under the normal range represents an abnormality and probable IAC stenosis. If narrow IAC is diagnosed with routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), then the cochlear nerve may be ev...

This study is devoted to the evaluation of schedules of parallel applications consisting of a set of stochastic tasks having precedence constraints between them. This is an important issue when the goal is to evaluate the efficiency and the robustness of a schedule. In this case, evaluating the makespan consists to evaluate an arithmetic expression with random variables. Results show that the p...

This paper investigates the performance of limited-fronthaul cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) taking account fronthaul quantization and imperfect channel acquisition. Three cases are studied, which we refer to as Estimate & Quantize, Quantize Estimate, Decentralized, according where estimation is performed exploited. Maximum-ratio combining (MRC), zero-forcing (ZF), minim...