Interruption of the blood flow may occur in intra-osseous arteries within the femoral head. We report a 72-year-old woman who developed osteonecrosis of the femoral head 11 months after surgery involving massive cementing of a segmental distal femoral rotating hinge prosthesis to treat nonunion of the distal femur. The bone cement filled the cavity up to the femoral neck and the superolateral p...

Various papers that study the integration of elastic and streaming traffic have been published recently [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. In terms of bandwidth sharing policy, the classical approach is to give head-of-line priority to packets of streaming flows in order to offer packet delay and loss guarantees [1, 2, 4]; alternatively, adaptive streaming flows (that are TCP-friendly and mimic elastic flows)...

In this paper, we first show that a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) split crossconnect is strictly, wide-sense, or rearrangeably non-blocking if and only if a corresponding 3-stage Clos network is strictly, wide-sense or rearrangeably non-blocking. This observation implies known results on strictly non-blocking WDM split cross-connects and gives rise to new results on wide-sense and rearr...

Multipath communication has recently arisen as a promising tool to address reliable in vehicular networks. The architecture of TCP (MPTCP) is designed facilitate concurrent utilization multiple network interfaces, thereby enabling the system optimize throughput. In context environments, MPTCP offers solution for seamless roaming, it enables maintain stable connection by switching between availa...

The use of buffer thresholds, blocking and adequate service strategies are well-known techniques for computer networks traffic congestion control. This motivates the study of series queues with blocking, feedback (service under Head of Line (HoL) priority discipline) and finite capacity buffers with thresholds. In this paper, the external traffic is modelled using the Poisson process and the se...

background and objective: hypothyroidism is a known consequence of the external beam radiotherapy to the neck encompassing the thyroid gland for over 40 years. the aim of this study was to find out the incidence of hypothyroidism in patients with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy, when radiation portals included whole of the thyroid gland. materials and methods: this prospective no...

U rban poverty has long been a concern of urban and development debates, and has been an important focus in social science research. Informal settlement in Mashhad city is highlighted because of its wide spreading and severity. This study aimed to determine the causes of urban poverty in informal settlement regions. The data were collected from household level questionnaire in 2016 a...