Introduction: Risk of Nonunion, residual shoulder disability and symptomatic malunion are higher in conservative treatment of displaced midshaft clavicle fractures which are reportedly decreased by operative method but plating these fractu profile anatomically precontoured plates may reduce the rates of plate prominence and hardware removal. Objective: To assess the rate of plate prominence, ra...

In computer graphics, the geometric complexity of models increases with time. As scanner and other hardware technologies improve, individual models may contain billions of polygons. Interactively rendering a single polygonal model of this size is not possible with current hardware. Thus for complex scenes that contain many of these models, rendering slows dramatically. One rendering technique, ...

KC: keratinocyte carcinoma SCC: squamous cell carcinoma INTRODUCTION The care of patients with aggressive keratinocyte carcinomas (KCs), including squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and basal cell carcinoma, is often multidisciplinary and includes dermatologic surgeons, plastic surgeons, otolaryngologists, and other surgical subspecialties. Complex reconstructions might require osteosynthetic materi...

A novel approach to hardware fault tolerance is proposed that takes inspiration from the human immune system as a method of fault detection and removal. The immune system has inspired work within the areas of virus protection and pattern recognition yet its application to hardware fault tolerance is untouched. This paper introduces many of the ingenious methods provided by the immune system to ...

Advances in hardware technology have deep implications on future database system designs [1]. Increasing transistor densities, faster processors, larger memories, and low inter-chip communication latencies have enabled new hardware mechanisms such as processors supporting speculative execution, large on-chip buffering, and aggressive multiprocessor system organizations with cache coherence. As ...