In our hospital all operative procedures are coded using the OPCS 4.3 classification and in addition are entered into an independent theatre databases. Using these two databases we identified patients undergoing hip fracture surgery at this hospital between 1st November 2003 and 30th November 2006. We identified 408 cases. No single database identified all 408 cases. A quarter of cases (N=98) w...

In this paper, we present two improvements to the beam search approach for solving homophonic substitution ciphers presented in Nuhn et al. (2013): An improved rest cost estimation together with an optimized strategy for obtaining the order in which the symbols of the cipher are deciphered reduces the beam size needed to successfully decipher the Zodiac-408 cipher from several million down to l...

It is now widely believed that FlexRay communication protocol will become the de-facto standard for distributed safety-critical automotive systems. In this paper, the fault sensitivity of the FlexRay communication controller registers are investigated using transient single bit-flip fault injection. To do this, a FlexRay bus network, composed of four nodes, was modeled. A total of 135,600 trans...

In this work, a facile and efficient approach has been demonstrated for size-selective separation of DNA fragments by using lysine-functionalized silica particles. At a given pH, the environmental ionic strength can be utilized to alter the electrostatic interactions of lysine-functionalized silica particles with DNA fragments and in turn the DNA fragments on the silica particle surfaces, which...

Objective: To investigate the efficacy of three cosmeceutical products; vitamin C serum (VCS) containing Tetrahexyldecyl (THD) Ascorbate, a multi-ingredient anti-aging facial and eye moisturizer (MFM MEM), in improving epidermal dermal structure function utilizing preclinical models. Background: Dermatologists confidently recommend cosmeceuticals that demonstrate tolerability across broad patie...