BACKGROUND CONTEXT Radiographic evaluation in adult spinal deformity (ASD) offers no information on spinopelvic alignment and compensation during dynamic conditions. Motion analysis the potential to bridge gap between static radiographic measurement, increasing our understanding how ASD impacts function. PURPOSE This study aimed explore changes sagittal strategies upright standing walking, comp...

STUDY DESIGN A biomechanical study using human spine specimens. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess whether the presence of cervical sagittal imbalance is an independent risk factor for increasing the mechanical burden on discs adjacent to cervical multilevel fusions. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The horizontal offset distance between the C2 plumbline and C7 vertebral body (C2-C7 Sa...

BACKGROUND HIV infection increases a woman's risk for cervical cancer, and cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates are higher in countries with high HIV prevalence and limited resources for screening. Visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) allows screening and treatment of cervical lesions in a single-visit approach (SVA), but data on its performance in HIV-infected women are limited. T...

The aim of the study was to explore the significance of T1 pelvic angle (TPA) for assessment of sagittal balance in a cohort of Chinese patients with unspecific low back pain. TPA has been commonly used to assess sagittal balance in adult spinal deformity. However, whether TPA could be used to assess sagittal balance in patients with unspecific low back pain effectively remains unanswered. Medi...

A brief overview of spatially variant apodization (SVA), and its origins as a computationally efficient adaptive windowing technique for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation, is provided by way of introduction. This is followed by a discussion of the use of SVA in conventional (non-sparse) spectral sensing applications such as early warning (EW) and pulsed Doppler radar systems to: (i...

This article is a comparative study. The aim of the study is to investigate the difference of sagittal alignment of the pelvis and spine between patients with thoracolumbar kyphosis secondary to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and thoracolumbar fracture, and to evaluate the role of sacropelvic component in AS patients' adaption to the changes in sagittal alignment. Advanced stages of AS are often a...

The study investigates an impromptu writing task administered to diploma students studying in one of the technical universities on East Coast Malaysia. In particular, it identifies their errors a one-paragraph essay, kind made completing task, and least one-paragraph. samples were 48 undergoing Preliminary Semester taking English as subjects particular semester. found that certain degree using ...

The breakthrough potentials of research papers can be explained by their boundary-spanning qualities. Here, for the first time, we apply structural variation analysis (SVA) model and its affiliated metrics to investigate extent which such qualities characterize a group Nobel Prize winning papers. We find that these share remarkable traits, marked exceptional abilities connect disparate topicall...

STUDY DESIGN Radiological analysis of normal patterns of sagittal alignment of the spine. PURPOSE This study aimed to clarify the characteristics of normal sagittal spino-pelvic alignment in Asian people. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE It is known that there are differences in these parameters based on age, gender, and race. In order to properly plan for surgical correction of the spine for Asian p...

The recent article by Mazzulli et al. (4) further demonstrates the increasing interest of virologists and microbiologists in the cytomegalovirus antigenemia (CMV-Ag) assay. Mazzulli and coworkers report that the CMV-Ag assay is more sensitive than the shell vial-indirect immunofluorescence assay (SVAIFA), perhaps implying that the direct antigen detection assay should be considered the method o...