A simple and rapid reversed-phase HPLC-UV method was developed for the determination of triterpenic acids in the crude extract of Prunellae Spica. Five triterpenic acids were extracted and isolated from P. Spica as marker compounds for use in the quality control of herbal medicines. Various solvent extraction techniques were evaluated, and the greatest efficiency was observed with sonication in...

Pediatric subtrochanteric femoral fractures are rare and have received limited attention in the literature Treatment is controversial. Different treatment options are used: skin traction, 90/90 skeletal traction, spica casting, cast bracing, internal fixation and external fixation. The aim of this study is to present our results with internal fixation of subtrochanteric femoral fractures in chi...

THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY Frohlich-type body and anatomical variations such as excess retroversion. In contrast, bilateral cases are most common during treatment for hypothalamo-pituitary axis failure, during which hormone replacement can result in a rapid gain in height and weight. Another cause is hyperparathyroidism, either primary or secondary to chronic renal failure. ‘In-situ’...

Traumatic hip dislocation is rare in children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the epidemiological features, dislocation types, treatments, and clinical and radiological outcomes. Seven cases of traumatic hip dislocation in children treated between 1996 and 2006 were included in this study. There were six boys and one girl with a mean age of 6.5 years. Six children had a low-energy...

We address the problem of Blind Source Separation (BSS) of superimposed images and, in particular, consider the recovery of a scene recorded through a semirefective medium (e.g. glass windshield) from its mixture with a virtual reflected image. We extend the Sparse ICA (SPICA) approach to BSS and apply it to the separation of the desired image from the superimposed images, without having any a ...

Introduction: Femoral shaft fractures account for 1.6% of all paediatric injuries. In children 5 years or younger, early closed reduction and application of spica cast is an ideal treatment for most diaphyseal fracture. Elastic stable intramedullary nailing of long bone fractures in the skeletally immature has gained widespread popularity because of its clinical effectiveness and low risk of co...

Yersinia enterocolitica, which causes yersiniosis, is a bacterium that produces biofilms effectively. The inhibition of biofilm formation provides method for preventing infections with Y. enterocolitica. In this study, the inhibitory activity enterocolitica was investigated in library 140 edible plant methanol extracts including forest products. It identified could be inhibited by 12 plants, Ag...

We consider the problem of recovery of a scene recorded through a semirefective medium from its mixture with a virtual reflected image using the blind source separation (BSS) framework. We extend the Sparse ICA (SPICA) approach and apply it to the separation of the desired image from the superimposed images, without having any a priory knowledge about its structure and/or statistics. Advances i...