BACKGROUND Offloading is key to preventing or healing plantar neuropathic foot ulcers in diabetes. Total contact casts or walkers rendered irremovable are recommended in guidelines as first-line options for offloading, however the use of such devices has been found to be low. This study aimed to investigate offloading practices for diabetes-related plantar neuropathic ulcers. METHODS An onlin...

The combination of a removable storage device with a communication channel and a computation node is a common architectural theme in many system-on-chip (SOC) designs. The systems in which many of these devices are placed produce or consume digital media content from their removable storage devices, which are formatted with industrystandard file systems. When the communication channel is USB, t...

Polyacetal resin is well known material in medical field for various applications such as for artificial heart valves and artificial hip joints. In dentistry the material among its other applications, is used for removable partial dentures. The article presents rehabilitation of a patient with maxillary defect using polyacetal resin obturator prostheses. The patient was rehabilitated 5 years ag...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the number of missing teeth (MT) and the statuses of oral environmental factors (the stimulated salivary flow rate, buffering capacity, and the counts of mutans streptococci, lactobacilli, and Candida) in the elderly. The subjects were 64 elderly subjects with fixed prostheses and 49 who wore removable partial dentures aged o...

As the number of aged people in the world is growing, the need to provide patients with tooth alternate through removable partial dentures is equally growing. There are adversarial effects that should be kept in mind which might disturb the remaining teeth; specially, the abutments and the supporting tissues. These effects might spread to the muscles of mastication and also to the supporting pe...

Let X be a (connected and reduced) complex space. A qcollar of X is a bounded domain whose boundary is a union of a strongly q-pseudoconvex, a strongly q-pseudoncave and two flat (i.e. locally zero sets of pluriharmonic functions) hypersurfaces. Finiteness and vanishing cohomology theorems obtained in [17], [18] for semi q-coronae are generalized in this context and lead to results on extension...

We prove the following conjecture of Bill Jackson ( J. London Math. Soc. (2) 21 (1980) p. 391). If G is a 2-connected multigraph with minimum degree at least 4 and containing no Petersen minor, then G contains a circuit C such that G E(C) is 2-connected. In fact, G has at least two edge-disjoint circuits which can serve as C. Until now, the conjecture had been veri ed only for planar graphs and...

Since the dawn of time (or at least Jan 1, 1970) it has been difficult for the common user to take advantage of removable media under UNIX. The traditional UNIX approach to dealing with removable media has been to let programs name the device containing the media, and to leave it to the operator (or user) to ensure that the right media is in the device named. We have implemented the opposite ap...