The number of referrals by primary care practitioners to secondary care neurology services, particularly for headache, may be difficult to justify. Access to imaging by primary care practitioners could avoid referral without compromising patient outcomes, but the decision to refer is based on a number of complex factors. Due to the paucity of rigorous evidence in this area, available data are c...

In this paper, we generalize the Szemerédi-Trotter theorem, a fundamental result of incidence geometry in the plane, to flags in higher dimensions. In particular, we employ a stronger version of the polynomial cell decomposition technique, which has recently shown to be a powerful tool, to generalize the Szemerédi-Trotter Theorem to an upper bound for the number of incidences of complete flags ...

In a ranked lattice, we consider two maximal chains, or “flags” to be i-adjacent if they are equal except possibly on rank i . Thus, a finite rank lattice is a chamber system. If the lattice is semimodular, as noted in [9], there is a “Jordan-Hölder permutation” between any two flags. This permutation has the properties of an Sn-distance function on the chamber system of flags. Using these noti...

The peripheral circulating white blood cell (WBC) or leukocyte count originate in the hematopoietic stem cells and develop along distinct differentiation in response to internal and external cues [1]. The total number of WBC in the circulation is given as the peripheral WBC count and proportion of the total number of WBC represented by differentiated granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils and b...

This paper proves an identity between flagged Schur polynomials, giving a duality row flags and column flags. generalises both the binomial determinant theorem due to Gessel Viennot symmetric function Aitken. As corollaries we obtain lifts of \(q\)-binomial coefficients polynomials. Our method is path counting argument on novel lattice generalising that used by Viennot.

The aim of this investigation was to elucidate the reductions in muscle, skin and core temperature following exposure to 2110uC whole body cryotherapy (WBC), and compare these to 8uC cold water immersion (CWI). Twenty active male subjects were randomly assigned to a 4-min exposure of WBC or CWI. A minimum of 7 days later subjects were exposed to the other treatment. Muscle temperature in the ri...

Preoperative exclusion or confirmation of periprosthetic infection is essential for correct surgical management of patients with suspected infected joint prostheses. The sensitivity and specificity of [111In]WBC imaging in the diagnosis of infected total joint prostheses was examined in 28 patients and compared with sequential [99mTc]HDP/[111In]WBC scintigraphy and aspiration arthrography. The ...

Abstract A flag is a nested sequence of vector spaces. The type the encodes dimensions spaces making up flag. manifold whose points parameterize all flags fixed in space. This paper provides mathematical framework necessary for implementing self-organizing mappings on manifolds. Flags arise implicitly many data analysis contexts including wavelet, Fourier, and singular value decompositions. pro...

BACKGROUND Inflammation is implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndromes. White blood cell (WBC) count increases during infections and inflammatory illnesses and has been shown to predict coronary heart disease (CHD) independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors. This apparent association may reflect a relationship between the WBC count and other corona...

Concentrations of serum thiols and white blood cell (WBC) count were examined in a group of 124 healthy volunteers. Univariate Pearson's analysis showed a close correlation between WBC count and total homocysteine and WBC and cysteine.