role in alerting us to nearby activities, in the appreciation of music, and especially in human communication. Airborne sounds vibrate the tympanum, which transmits the oscillations successively to the malleus, incus, and stapes of the middle ear. Moving like a piston, the last of these miniscule bones alternately increases and decreases the pressure within the cochlea, a chickpea-sized organ t...

Tuning parallel applications requires the use of effective tools for detecting performance bottlenecks. Along a parallel program execution, many individual situations of performance degradation may arise. We believe that an exhaustive and time–aware tracing at a fine–grain level is essential to capture this kind of situations. This paper presents a tracing mechanism based on dynamic code interp...

One difficulty encountered by intrusion and misuse detection systems is a lack of application level audit data. Frequently, applications used are written by third parties and may be distributed only in a binary format. In this paper we present a technique to generate application level audit data using library interposition. Interposition allows the generation of audit data without needing to re...

BACKGROUND Interposition arthroplasty with bioreplaceable poly-L/D-lactic acid (PLDLA) implants has been studied in Finland with promising results in reconstruction of the rheumatoid hand. We evaluated this material in a series of patients with rheumatoid forefoot deformities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-five patients were randomized to either PLDLA metatarsophalangeal joint interposition ar...

BACKGROUND Both trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition and trapeziometacarpal arthrodesis are commonly performed procedures for the treatment of trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis. The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes of both treatments for symptomatic osteoarthritis of the thumb trapeziometacarpal joint in a randomized trial. METHODS Women who wer...

A growing number of mobile computing devices are becoming available that can access large amounts of data and services over the Internet. While Java appears to be an appropriate platform to deal with diversity, our experience reveals that in a mobile environment it has insufficient support for system facilities such as remote storage, disconnected operation, and concurrent execution of multiple...

The present report describes a case where typical findings of traumatic glenohumeral interposition of rotator cuff stumps were surgically confirmed. This condition is a rare complication of shoulder trauma. Generally, it occurs in high-energy trauma, frequently in association with glenohumeral joint dislocation. Radiography demonstrated increased joint space, internal rotation of the humerus an...

BACKGROUND We aimed to present our experience with and algorithm for septal perforation repair using advancement and rotation flaps. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on 14 patients who underwent septal perforation repair. Etiology, perforation size, presenting symptoms, reconstruction methods, combined operation, surgical results, and complications were evaluated. RESULTS ...

Abstract Aim To find out the mean air conduction thresholds (ACT) and air–bone gap (ABG) closure across treatment groups at end of 3 6 months follow-up. Material methods Sixty patients diagnosed with COM conductive hearing loss were included in study. Air threshold calculated recorded pre-operatively. Surgery was done clearance disease followed by reconstruction single-stage operation using aut...

PURPOSE To provide a comprehensive review of clinical outcomes and retear rates after patch use in rotator cuff repair, and to determine the differences between available graft types and techniques. METHODS A systematic review was conducted from database (PubMed, Medline, Scopus, Embase) inception to January 2015 for English-language articles reporting outcome data with 9 months' minimum foll...