BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare 2 blood management interventions, tranexamic acid (TXA) and bipolar sealer system (BSS) used independently or in combination with a control group during primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS A total of 127 TKA patients were enrolled and randomized into 4 groups: Intravenous TXA plus the BSS (N = 29, group 1); TXA only (N = 29, group...

This paper deals with the development of several strategies for associating users to base stations (BSs) in heterogeneous networks. These strategies are able to balance the rate among users and BSs and increase the overall network utility. Constraints related to the energy availability at BSs are considered explicitly in the design, assuming that the BSs are equipped with batteries that are rec...

Blood stasis syndrome (BSS) has been considered to be the major type of syndromes in unstable angina (UA) patients. The aim of this study was to find the systems biology-based microRNA (miRNA) and mRNA expression biomarkers for BSS of UA. We identified 1081 mRNAs and 25 miRNAs differentially expressed between BSS of UA patients and healthy controls by microarrays. We used DAVID, miRTrail, and t...

introduction : brooke-spiegler syndrome (bss) is a rare autosomal dominant disease characterized by the development of multiple adnexal cutaneous tumors such as cylindromas, trichoepitheliomas and spiradenomas. case description: a 49 years old female patient presented with a history of gradual appearance of multiple nodules situated predominantly on the scalp and face. pathologic examination of...

For speech enhancement or blind signal extraction (BSE), estimating interference and noise characteristics is decisive for its performance. For multichannel approaches using multiple microphone signals, a BSE scheme combining a blocking matrix (BM) and spectral enhancement filters was proposed in numerous publications. For such schemes, the BM provides a noise estimate by suppressing the target...

PURPOSE In a study complementing a previous multicenter randomized clinical trial on prophylactic injection of intraocular antibiotics during primary repair of penetrating eye injuries (PEIs), we sought to determine whether needle entrance and injection of balanced salt solution (BSS), per se, could increase the rate of acute post-traumatic bacterial endophthalmitis (APBE). METHODS Patients r...

In recent years, there has been increasing attention on bicycle-sharing systems (BSS) as a viable and sustainable mode of transportation for short trips. However, due to relatively recent adoption of BSS there is very little research exploring how people consider these systems within the existing transportation alternatives. Given the recent growth of BSS across the world, there is substantial ...

The core of the Galactic Globular Cluster M3 (NGC 5272) has been observed with the WFPC2 through the filters F255W , F336W , F555W , and F814W . Using these observations along with a thorough reanalysis of earlier catalogs, we have produced a catalog of blue straggler stars (BSS) spanning the cluster. Earlier studies and the fainter part of our sample suffer severe selection biases. Our analysi...

Despite several recent proposals to achieve blind source separation (BSS) for realistic acoustic signals, the separation performance is still not good enough. In particular, when the impulse responses are long, performance is highly limited. In this paper, we consider a two-input, two-output convolutive BSS problem. First, we show that it is not good to be constrained by the condition , where i...

We study the computational power of shallow quantum circuits with n input qubits, one output qubit, and two types of ancillary qubits: O(log n) initialized and O(poly(n)) uninitialized qubits. The initial state of the uninitialized ancillary qubits is arbitrary, and we have to return their state into the initial one at the end of the computation. First, to show the strengths of such circuits, w...