OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate whether the permanent fluoropolymer-coated Xience Xpedition everolimus-eluting stent (Xience-EES) exhibits lower acute thrombogenicity compared with contemporary drug-eluting stents (DES) with biodegradable polymer coatings in an acute swine shunt model. BACKGROUND Previous pre-clinical and clinical experience suggests that several factors may influenc...

The Columbus knee system is designed as a standard knee implant to allow high flexion without additional bone resection. Between August, 2004 and March, 2010 we performed 109 total knee arthroplasties of the Columbus knee system in 101 consecutive patients suffering from primary arthrosis of the knee. Mean age was 72.4 years in women and 70.3 years in men. Mean followup was 47.3 months. The 4-y...

Originally, MapReduce implementations such as Hadoop employed First In First Out (fifo) scheduling, but such simple schemes cause job starvation. The Hadoop Fair Scheduler (hfs) is a slot-based MapReduce scheme designed to ensure a degree of fairness among the jobs, by guaranteeing each job at least some minimum number of allocated slots. Our prime contribution in this paper is a different, fle...

The tube in flow rigs used for testing Doppler ultrasound instruments can attenuate and distort the beam and sample volume by refraction, reflection, absorption and mode conversion. The attenuation and degree of distortion has been measured by using a moving string test object and candidate tubes have been compared. Tubes of rubber, TFE-Teflon, Perspex, heatshrink and C-Flex have been tested le...

Thing is a robotic hand with three digits, a pronating opposable thumb, and a 2 D.O.F. wrist. Designed to more accurately model human hand positioning and grasping capabilities than previous models, Thing is controlled by a flex-sensor-equipped glove which relays the user’s finger positions by means of flex sensors. It will also, by time of publication, incorporate an image-processing system fo...

In underdoped cuprates, Tc is thought to be determined by Cooper pair phase fluctuations because of the small superfluid density ns. Experimentally, Tc is found to scale with ns. The fluctuation-exchange approximation (FLEX) in its standard form fails to predict this behavior of Tc since it does not include phase fluctuations. We therefore extend the FLEX to include them selfconsistently. We pr...

Flex sensors can be usefully adopted as mechanical-electrical transducers to measure human joint movements, since their electrical resistance varies proportionally to the angle assumed by the joint under measure. Over time, these sensors have been investigated in terms of mechanical and electrical behavior, but no reports have detailed the possibility of their adoption not just on top but under...

It is with great pleasure that we present this Special Issue for IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics (J-FLEX), dedicated to the extended papers from 2022 International Conference Flexible, Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), held in Vienna, Austria. FLEPS sponsored by Council, one of our leading J-FLEX sponsors. As Guest Editorial Board, are delighted bring together a collection cutting-edg...