BACKGROUND A subset of patients have clinical internal and/or external knee rotational instability despite no apparent injury to the cruciate or collateral ligaments. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of sequentially cutting the posterolateral, anterolateral, posteromedial, and anteromedial structures of the knee on rotational stability in the setting of in...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to determine whether continuous intrathecal delivery of baclofen can effectively decrease spastic hypertonia due to stroke. METHODS Stroke patients with >6 months of intractable spasticity were screened via a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover design of either intrathecal normal saline or 50 microgram baclofen. Those who dropped an average ...

Background/Aims Patients with small bowel strictures have varied etiologies, including malignancy. Little data are available on the demographic profiles and etiologies of small bowel strictures in patients who undergo surgery because of intestinal obstruction but do not have a definitive pre-operative diagnosis. Methods Retrospective data were analyzed for all patients operated between Januar...

Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet at Karolinska University Hospital, 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden, Institute for Theoretical Biology (ITB), Humboldt University Berlin and Charité, Invalidenstrasse 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden...

The ankle-brachial index (ABI) is an indicator of peripheral artery disease (PAD). aim this study was to assess the association between PAD, measured with ABI, and cognitive function in persons overweight or obesity metabolic syndrome. Cross-sectional conducted baseline data from PREDIMED-Plus study, which included 4898 participants (after exclusion those without ABI measurements) aged 55 75 ye...

Abstract In this paper, the background physics of isotope effects in ion internal transport barrier (ITB) are discussed detail. An heuristic criterion for ITB strength is defined based on nonlinear dependence thermal diffusivity local temperature L-mode phase. Comparing deuterium plasmas and hydrogen plasmas, two clarified: stronger ITBs formed an concomitant edge confinement degradation plasma...

A tokamak scenario with q(0) close to 1 has been achieved on HL-2A tokamak, which is an internal transport barrier (ITB) at low central shear or a steady-state ITB combined H-mode edge barrier. In this scenario, the formation of steep ion temperature profile observed be closely linked q = magnetic surface and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activities around it, such as long-lived mode (LLM) fishbone...

The Southeast Asian Conference on Geophysics (SEACG) is a biannual event held by the Geophysical Engineering Department, Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. SEACG has been successfully conducted since 2016, several selected papers have published in IOP Series: Earth Environmental Science. first (2016) second (2018) conferences were offline B...