BACKGROUND To date, no study had reported the phenomenon of deteriorated postoperative cervical tilt in Lenke type 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cervical tilt in Lenke type 2 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with right-elevated shoulder treated by either full fusion or partial/non fusion of the proximal thoracic curve. METHODS...

Existing techniques for obtaining shape from texture estimate tilt and slant via a single computational mechanism. These techniques do not take advantage of the fact that tilt is relatively easy to estimate, and slant can be estimated more easily once tilt is known. This paper introduces the adaptive bisector method, which allows tilt and slant to be calculated separately, and by different comp...

In normal children, any procedure that increases heart rate, such as the tilt test, may shorten the QT interval. The effect of the tilt test on QT interval in children with syncope remains unknown. We analyzed the response of RR and QT intervals during a tilt test in 3 groups of children: 28 healthy children (group 1), 26 with syncope of unknown etiology and negative tilt test results (group 2)...

Van Beuzekom, A. D. and J.A.M. Van Gisbergen. Properties of the internal representation of gravity inferred from spatial-direction and body-tilt estimates. J Neurophysiol 84: 11–27, 2000. One of the key questions in spatial perception is whether the brain has a common representation of gravity that is generally accessible for various perceptual orientation tasks. To evaluate this idea, we compa...

The tilt after-effect (TAE) and tilt illusion (TI) have revealed a great deal about the nature of orientation coding of 1-dimensional (1D) lines and gratings. Comparatively little research however has addressed the mechanisms responsible for encoding the orientation of 2-dimensional (2D) plaid stimuli. A multi-stage model of edge detection has recently been proposed [Georgeson, M. A. (1998) Ima...

BACKGROUND This study estimated when it is safe to stop follow-up visits after cessation of amblyopia treatment and to identify factors associated with deterioration of visual acuity. METHODS Study patients included 282 patients aged 7 to 13 years who were monitored for deterioration after cessation of amblyopia treatment (median follow-up: 3.9 years). RESULTS Six (2.1%) patients lost 2 or ...

Background. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of tuberculosis and its predictors among HIV positive children. Methods. A six-year retrospective follow-up study was conducted among HIV infected children aged less than 15 years. Life table was used to estimate the cumulative probability of tuberculosis free survival. Cox proportional hazards model was used to identify predictor...

Robotica / FirstView Article / January 2016, pp 1 25 DOI: 10.1017/S0263574714002665, Published online: 09 December 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0263574714002665 How to cite this article: Salam Dhou and Yuichi Motai Scale-invariant optical ow in tracking using a pan-tilt-zoom camera. Robotica, Available on CJO 2014 doi:10.1017/S0263574714002665 Request Perm...

Because of the absence of a uniform protocol for the head-up tilt table test (HUT), we compared 1,661 consecutive patients with syncope referred for HUT. The influence of age and gender on the results (positive response rate and patterns) obtained with three different protocols, Westminster, isoprenaline and nitroglycerin (groups A, B and C) was analyzed. The proportion of women was larger in t...