BACKGROUND Pedobarography offers dynamic information about the foot, but the interpretation of its large data is challenging. In a prior study it was shown that attention can be restricted to pedobarographic midfoot load data. We aim to verify this observation in ankle osteoarthritic and contralateral feet. METHODS We assessed both feet of 120 patients with end-stage ankle osteoarthritis (OA)...

INTRODUCTION Pelvic masses are among most the common causes of patient admission into gynecology clinics and one of the most common reasons for referral to gynecologic oncology departments due to the risk of uterine or ovarian malignancies. The aim of this study is to compare the four indices of the risk of malignancy index (RMI 1-4), as a combination of menstrual status, radiological findings,...

The Java Environment for Distributed Invocation (JEDI) is efficient, dynamic, and easier to use than alternative communication systems for distributed Java objects. Existing state-of-the-art mechanisms for remote method calls on Java objects, such as RMI, require users to perform a complicated series of steps. Furthermore, the compiled static interfaces these systems use limit their functionali...

In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the respiratory system is frequently compromised. One of its uncommon manifestations is the shrinking lung syndrome (SLS), characterized by unexplained dyspnea, a restrictive pattern on pulmonary function tests, and an elevated hemidiaphragm. The pathogenesis of the SLS remains unknown. We report three consecutive cases of women with systemic lupus erythem...

As a mitigation measure against tsunami inundation, vegetation-embankment hybrid structures received attention after the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami, and some have already been constructed or are under construction in Japan. The present study conducted series of numerical simulations using system comprised an artificial structure (an embankment, moat) natural component (vegetation) that was e...

In computational grids, performance-hungry applications need to simultaneously tap the computational power of multiple, dynamically available sites. The crux of designing grid programming environments stems exactly from the dynamic availability of compute cycles: grid programming environments (a) need to be portable to run on as many sites as possible, (b) they need to be flexible to cope with ...

We h a ve e v aluated a high speed network, Gigabit Ethernet(GbE), with Java/HORB, which means Java and Java-based Distributed Object Technology(DOT). Next generation of data acquisition(DAQ) needs high speed network such a s A TM and GbE for data transfer in Level 3 and/or Level 2 trigger of the DAQ at large scale DAQ system like Large Hadron Collider(LHC). When evaluating the basic parameters...

Pipelined Processor Farms (PPF) are a generic parallelprocessing structure suitable for continuous-flow, multialgorithm applications. PPF has been redesigned for a multimedia workload which is multifunctional and multimodal. A dynamic object-based processing structure is implemented which will map onto mobile stations. The PPF processing model with asynchronous message-passing in a multi-thread...