BACKGROUND Tibia shaft fractures (TSF) are common for men and women and cause substantial morbidity, healthcare use, and costs. The impact of nonunions on healthcare use and costs is poorly described. Our goal was to investigate patient characteristics and healthcare use and costs associated with TSF in patients with and without nonunion. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed medical claims in ...

The aim of the "Transplantation Sans Frontières" (TSF) questionnaire, which was sent to French-speaking centers in 6 different countries and regions, was to establish the current status of organ donation and transplantation in their environments. It was also to examine ways to collaborate and exchange scientific information, teaching, and training in the field of organ transplantation. The Fren...

The long-term role of fire in coastal temperate rain forest is poorly understood. To determine the historical role of fire on western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada), we constructed a long-term spatially explicit fire history and examined the spatial and temporal distribution of fire during the Holocene. Two fire-history parameters (time-since-fire [TSF] and fire extent) were relate...

The concept that the number of tests performed is an accurate measure of the laboratory work-load may be misleading. On the premise that a system based on techniciantime would be superior, the time-skill-frequency (TSF) unit was devised. The TSF unit is the length of time necessary for an average analyst to perform a single determination, multiplied by factors based on the length of time necess...

Bertholène is a former uranium mine in Aveyron, where tailings and waste rocks are stored natural valley. This results acid drainage (AMD) at the outlet of storage facility (TSF), there dedicated water treatment plant. A detailed data analysis was conducted using from 13 piezometers long-term monitoring local climate. 3D model developed MODFLOW to understand groundwater flows catchment scale id...

Correction of complex deformities is a challenging procedure. Long-term wearing of a fixator after correction and lengthening are inconvenient and has a high rate of complication. The goals of the surgical treatment in the presented case were: (1) correction of the deformity and lengthening of the left leg by the Taylor spatial frame (TSF, Smith and Nephew, Marl, Germany); (2) reduction in the ...

The secreted form of the suppressor T cell factor specific for keyhole limpet hemocyanin derived from the hybridoma 34S-704 was found to consist of the two distinct polypeptide chains, i.e., the antigen-binding and the I-J-encoded chains. They were linked in covalent association with disulfide bonds. The two chains were cleaved by the reduction with dithiothreitol and were easy to reconstitute ...

Time Series Forecasting (TSF) allows the modeling of complex systems as “black-boxes”, being a focus of attention in several research arenas such as Operational Research, Statistics or Computer Science. Alternative TSF approaches emerged from the Artificial Intelligence arena, where optimization algorithms inspired on natural selection processes, such as Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), are popul...

Purpose: The aim of the current study was to compare preoperative examination findings, endoanal ultrasonography results, and operative findings in patients diagnosed with perianal fistula.
 Materials Methods: A prospective conducted between 2021 2022 on who underwent surgical treatment for fistula. were recorded classified according Park classification by surgeon performing operation. Sub...

Antigen-specific, T cell-derived factors have been the subject of extensive studies as possible mediators of immunoregulatory interactions (reviewed in references 1-3). Functionally, two kinds of factor, helper and suppressor, can be distinguished. The suppressor factors (TsF), x again, fall into two categories, namely, inducer factors (TsiF) that play a role in communication between T cell set...