AIM To determine the effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy on short-term complications of complex war wounds to the upper and lower extremities in patients who were and those who were not treated according to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) emergency war surgery recommendations. METHOD We retrospectively analyzed data of 388 male patients undergoing reconstructive surgery for G...

due to its domestic problems, russia failed to pay significant attention to central asia and the caucasus after the collapse of the soviet :union:. this resulted in a geopolitical vacuum in the region followed by extensive activities done by regional actors including iran, turkey, pakistan and israel as well as world players such as nato. defining central asia and the caucasus as 'near abr...

Interest in incremental and adaptive query processing has led to the investigation of equijoin evaluation algorithms that are non-blocking. This investigation has yielded a number of algorithms, including the symmetric hash join, the XJoin, the Ripple Join, and their variants. However, to our knowledge no one has proposed a nonblocking spatial join algorithm. In this paper, we propose a paralle...

With the prevalence of mobile devices and access to social networks, an increasing number of people are playing mobile social network games. This type of game differs from traditional online games with new capabilities of convenient mobile use and access to social networks. Despite the popularity of mobile social network games, there are limited studies in this field. Particularly, there is a l...