Introduction: Distal femur fracture are being treated with distal nail, dynamic condylar screw and even addition of a medial plate good clinical results. By this study, we explore the potenti ability locking to counter fractures extra articular, partial or intra- articular nature. Positive results have been brought out by various groups from all over world. Aim: To study clinical, functional ra...

Up to now, two conflicting theories have tried to explain the genesis of averaged event-related potentials (ERPs): Whereas one hypothesis claims that ERPs originate from an event-related activation of neural assemblies distinct from background dynamics, the other hypothesis states that ERPs are produced by phase resetting of ongoing oscillatory activity. So far, this question has only been addr...

This case report involves a 56-year-old female (Mrs X) with a traumatic intertrochanteric hip fracture with subtrochanteric extension below a previous Birmingham hip resurfacing. Periprosthetic fractures following hip resurfacing are usually subcapital and treated with a revision or conservative management. We present an unusual surgical problem with an interesting solution stabilising the frac...

Several papers in this issue of the Journal address topics in the theme of plate and screw fixation (1–4). A critical element of this form of internal fixation is that the maintenance of stability provided by the plate relies heavily on the integrity of the screw fixation. Bone screws can perform their work in several ways. In conventional plate fixation, the head of a tightened screw compresse...

In many real time applications, security is an important requirement, since the system maintains sensitive information to be shared by multiple users with different security levels. A secure real-time database system must satisfy not only logical data consistency but also the timing constraints and security requirements associated with transactions. Even though an optimistic concurrency control...

Locking is one of the predominant costs in transaction processing. While much work has focused on designing efficient locking mechanisms, not much has been done on understanding how transaction applications issue queries and leveraging application semantics to improve performance. This paper presents QURO, a query-aware compiler that automatically reorders queries in transaction code to improve...

BACKGROUND We are presenting our experience in the use of locking compression plate (LCP) after juxta-articular oncological resections in addition to its use in pathologic fracture. METHODS A retrospective audit of skeletal reconstruction using LCP in 25 cases of long bone tumors was performed from 2008 to 2010. Reconstruction following limb salvage surgery was done in 17 patients and interna...