Objectives: This study’s objective was to compare changes in body composition measurements (BCM) and bone mineral density (BMD) over 2 years between collegiate athletes following hip arthroscopy treat labral tears due femoral acetabular impingement syndrome (FAI) matched uninjured athletes. Methods: A retrospective cohort study compared BCM BMD of NCAA Division I who underwent as a treatment fo...

Objective. To determine the most costeffective treatment for phimosis. Design. The costs of three treatment strategies for treating phimosis were evaluated using a decision-tree analysis. Three therapeutic approaches were considered: circumcision, preputial plasty (the use of plastic surgical techniques to enlarge the preputial opening without removing tissue), and topical therapy with steroids...

Ashby’s Homeostat (Ashby, 1952, Design for a Brain, Chapman and Hall) was a demonstration of how an extended form of homeostasis, defined by him as ultrastability, could be achieved with a relatively simple mechanism. Homeostasis refers to the process whereby an organism, or a machine, actively maintains certain ’essential variables’ (EVs) within the critical bounds of viability. The simplest f...

Background Conduction mediated by the slow inward (Ca2+) current occurs in vitro under specific experimental conditions but has not been documented in ventricular muscle in vivo during regional myocardial ischemia, perhaps because certain constituents of ischemia (including hypoxia and acidosis) may inhibit the Ca2' current in this setting. We hypothesized that slow conduction mediated by the C...

Demand for mineral resources is increasing, necessitating exploitation of lower grade and more heterogeneous orebodies. The high variability inherent in such orebodies leads to an increase the cost, complexity environmental footprint associated with mining processing. Enhanced knowledge orebody characteristics thus vital companies optimize profitability. We present a pilot study investigate pre...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are revolutionary anticancer drugs approved in an expanding variety of cancer types [ [1] Geraud A. Gougis P. Vozy et al. Clinical pharmacology and interplay immune Agents: a yin-yang balance. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2021 Jan 6; 61 (Epub 2020 Sep 1. PMID: 32871087): 85-112https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-022820-093805 Crossref PubMed Scopus (13) G...

along TDR probes, corresponding with a scale of cubic centimeters (10 6 m3) to cubic decimeters (10 3 m3). Time domain reflectometry (TDR) has become one of the standard Two different approaches to obtaining soil water conmethods for the measurement of the temporal and spatial distribution of water saturation in soils. Current waveform analysis methodology tent estimates from measured TDR wavef...

This paper aims at detecting textual regions by separating graphical regions using Selective CRLA scheme and statistical textual properties on noise infected and low resolution newspaper images. A Bottom Up approach is adopted (i.e.) Selective Constrained Run Length algorithm (CRLA) is applied to obtain the layouts and region growing method over it, segments the homogeneous regions. Statistical...

See related article, pages 3009–3016. Stroke unit care, intravenous thrombolysis, and endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke have changed stroke medicine dramatically. In the past decades, the chances of surviving acute ischemic stroke without severe handicap have increased substantially for the majority of stroke patients. However, the outlook for patients with intracerebral hemorrhag...