The authors report the results achieved in patients with type III open tibial fractures who underwent primary autogenous bone grafting at the time of debridement and skeletal stabilisation. Twenty patients with a mean age of 35.8 years (range, 24-55) were treated between 1996 and 1999. Eight fractures were type IIIA, 11 were type IIIB, and 1 was type IIIC. At the index procedure, wound debridem...

Using data from 8,951 first-time mothers in the National Survey of Family Growth, the authors analyzed trends in union contexts during the transition to motherhood by social class (proxied by maternal education). Conventional classifications of union contexts as married or cohabiting were extended by classifying births relative to union status at conception. The most conventional married birth ...

Study Design: Prospective consecutive series. Objective: To Evaluate the role of exchange nailing in non union of fractures of long bones of lower limb. Summary of Background data: Exchange Nailing which includes removal of current intramedullary nail, reaming of medullary canal and placement of larger diameter nail shows increased union rate as seen in various studies. Methods: A Prospective s...

This paper provides a summary of our recent work on robust speech recognition based on a new statistical approach the probabilistic union model. In particular, we considered speech recognition involving partial corruption in frequency bands, in time duration, and further in feature components. In all these situations, we assumed no prior knowledge about the corrupting noise, e.g. its band locat...

This paper investigates the effects of members’ exits from a currency union on credibility common currency. In our model, inflation rate is determined by majority voting among N member countries that are heterogeneous with respect to their output shocks. Once an has been selected, each decides whether remain in or not. If exit, it pay fixed social cost and individually chooses its Unlike previo...

Given a network G(V,A,c), the eccentric node of a node v ∈ V is the furthest node from v with respect to the edge length vector c. The inverse eccentric problem consists of modifying the edge length vector c minimally so that a specific node t becomes the eccentric node of another specific node s. The length modifications can be measured by different distances. In this paper, the problem under ...