The Norway elbow prosthesis is a non-constrained cemented total replacement. It depends on intact collateral ligaments for stability, and allows a full range of movement. The system includes several sizes of components, all freely interchangeable, and semi-constraint can be provided by a locking ring if damaged collateral ligaments make dislocation possible. The prosthesis has been used in more...

BACKGROUND After a Sudden impact disasters (SID), relief workers and coordinators require information on the size and location of the affected population as well as the character and magnitude of their immediate needs. METHODS The study was performed in the mountainous Bagh district, a part of the autonomous state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan. Semi-structured interviews were conducte...

We present a radio browsing system developed on a very small corpus of annotated speech by using semi-supervised training of multilingual DNN/HMM acoustic models. This system is intended to support relief and developmental programmes by the United Nations (UN) in parts of Africa where the spoken languages are extremely under resourced. We assume the availability of 12 minutes of annotated speec...

Three-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations are used to study micro-crack interaction with the first micro-structural barrier in face-centred cubic bi-crystals loaded in high cycle fatigue conditions. In the examined configuration, we assumed that micro-crack transmission occurs due to surface relief growth in the secondary grain ahead of the primary crack. This indirect transmission mec...

To perform complex tasks, a team of robots requires both reactive and deliberative planning. For reactive control, a restricted variant of Linear Temporal Logic called General Reactivity(1) can be used to synthesize correct-byconstruction controllers in polynomial time, but they often ignore time and resource constraints to maintain tractable synthesis. For deliberation, hierarchical planning c...

Platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) is an uncommon syndrome characterized by dyspnea and hypoxemia triggered by orthostatism and relieved by recumbency. It is often associated with an interatrial shunt through a patent foramen ovale (PFO). We report the case of a 92-year-old woman initially admitted in the setting of a traumatic femoral neck fracture (successfully treated with hip replacement ...

The strategic use of natural shade and iodine supplementation at the time of joining led to an improved fertility of tropical Merino ewes. This was most pronounced when ambient heat stress was greatest (p <O.Ol). A higher incidence of oestrus and a higher pregnancy rate in mated animals both contributed to the improved fertility. Heat' stress conditions experienced during summer in a tropical s...

Vectorization of cartographic features is a difficult task in geographic information acquisition from topographic maps. This paper presents a semi-automatic approach to linear feature vectorization directly in original scanned colour topographic maps without layer separation. In the approach, a sliding window is added on a user-given linear feature, and the current line in the window is segment...

Soils (Leptosols or Epileptic Regosols) with lithic contact at a depth of 50 cm occupy almost 20% the Brazilian semi-arid region. These soils are susceptible to erosion due faster saturation water-holding capacity during rainfall, which accelerates beginning runoff. However, traits in region Brazil less studied. The aim this study was characterize soil and landscape attributes areas Neossolos L...

Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relie...