The diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is intrinsically difficult, and the literature about it is full of confusing terminology. Symptoms may arise due to compression of neural and/or vascular elements in one or more of three different locations. A number of tests were developed during the early part of this century, and a variety of syndromes have been described that relate to these t...

BACKGROUND Bucket-handle meniscal tears are rare in geriatric patients. Displaced bucket-handle meniscal tears are usually treated operatively. Due to the rarity of these tears in elderly patients and conflicting evidence regarding the use of arthroscopy versus conservative treatment, it is valuable to report the clinical presentation, treatment, and outcome of these injuries in elderly patient...

The paper provides a unifying perspective of tree-decomposition algorithms appearing in various automated reasoning areas such as join-tree clustering for constraint-satisfaction and the clique-tree algorithm for probabilistic reasoning. Within this framework, we introduce a new algorithm, called bucket-tree elimination (BTE), that extends Bucket Elimination (BE) to trees, and show that it can ...

In this paper, we present the Elastic Token Bucket (ETB) as a dynamic traffic characterization for traffic shaping purposes, i.e. for traffic policing and spacing. We describe the ETB and study the impact of its parameters on the resulting packet delay and maximum throughput. In contrast to simple Constant Bit Rate (CBR) or Token Bucket (TB) based solutions, economy of scale can be achieved reg...

It is well known that a single Leaky Bucket cannot control all characteristics of a source. Especially, controlling burst length and mean rate may be incompatible, while a poor control of any of these characteristics impacts directly networks performances. Given an ATM source, this paper addresses this issue and gives a general approach to choose the \best" Leaky Bucket parameters; the optimali...