Background: Evaluating the landmarks for rotation of the distal femur is a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. Although the posterior femoral condyle axis is a good landmark for surgeons, the surgical transepicondylar axis may be a better option with the help of preoperative CT scanning. The purpose of this study was to ascertain relationships among the axes’ guiding distal femur rotational ...

This study presents and tests a model in which the effect of IT investments on firm revenues is associated with the dimensions of IT-business alignment in an emerging market context. We disaggregate firms’ IT business alignment into three dimensions: (1) IT investment-business strategy alignment, (2) IT delivery-business priority alignment, and (3) IT change-business change alignment. Using a s...

introduction: acinetobacter baumannii is associated with hospital-acquired infections. outer membrane protein a of a.baumannii (abompa) is a well-characterized virulence factor which has important roles in pathogenesis of this bacterium. methods: based on our pcr-sequencing of ompa gene in the clinical isolates, abompa protein can be categorized into two types, named here type-1 and type-2. we ...

Optimal sequence alignments depend heavily on alignment scoring parameters. Given input sequences, parametric alignment is the well-studied problem that asks for all possible optimal alignment summaries as parameters vary, as well as the optimality region of alignment scoring parameters which yield each optimal alignment. But biologically correct alignments might be suboptimal for all parameter...

In this paper we present a confidence measure for word alignment based on the posterior probability of alignment links. We introduce sentence alignment confidence measure and alignment link confidence measure. Based on these measures, we improve the alignment quality by selecting high confidence sentence alignments and alignment links from multiple word alignments of the same sentence pair. Add...

Current word alignment models do not distinguish between different types of alignment links. In this paper, we provide a new probabilistic model for word alignment where word alignments are associated with linguistically motivated alignment types. We propose a novel task of joint prediction of word alignment and alignment types and propose novel semi-supervised learning algorithms for this task...

This study develops a conceptual framework of alignment between business and IS strategies. Bridging two dominant perspectives in alignment literature, it proposes an integrative framework of socio-intellectual alignment that fills the theoretical gap in business-IT alignment research. The socio-intellectual framework of alignment explains how the business-IT alignment can be accomplished socia...

  Background: Knee malalignment is an important modifiable cause of osteoarthritis (OA). Surgical therapeutic procedures depend on proper knee alignment assessment. The purpose of this study was to compare knee alignment parameters between double and single leg weight-bearing radiographs and to evaluate the reproducibility of inter- and intra-observer measurements. Methods: One hundred eight p...

An algorithm for progressive multiple alignment of sequences with insertions " , 1. Introduction The problem of sequence alignment is to find the patterns of sequence conservation and similarity between pairs or sets of given sequences. In biological contexts, similarity between biological sequences usually amounts to either functional or structural similarities or divergence from a common ance...