Mallet fingers are clearly far more complex to care for correctly than they appear. Patients often present to the clinic with a mallet finger, wondering why they suddenly cannot extend the tip of their finger after what appeared to be a trivial injury such as pulling up socks or tucking in a bed sheet ([1]; Fig. 2.1). Other patients describe a high-velocity sports or work impact on the finger, ...

With the expansion of data sharing and always-online devices, social networks have become an increasingly important aspect of society. Groups such as the SMR Foundation are constantly on the lookout for new tools to analyze these networks, particularly their behaviors over time. ViralViz is a visualization tool meant to aid in the study of the diffusion of content through social networks. It op...

Background: Tagging gene and gene product mentions in scientific text is an important initial step of literature mining. In BioCreative 2 challenge, the conditional random fields model (CRF) was the most prevailing method in the gene mention task. In this paper, we analyze two best performing CRF-based systems in BioCreative 2. We examine their key claims and propose enhancement based on the an...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Unlike screw-retention type, fixture-abutment retention in Locking taper connection depends on frictional force so it has possibility of abutment to sink. PURPOSE In this study, Bicon® Implant System, one of the conical internal connection implant system, was used with applying loading force to the abutments connected to the fixture. Then the amount of sinking was measure...