Acute hematogenous osteomyelitis (AHO) is primarily a disease of young children, presumably because of the rich vascular supply of their rapidly growing bones. Infecting organisms enter the bone through the nutrient artery and then travel to the metaphyseal capillary loops, where they are deposited, replicate, and initiate an inflammatory response (Figure 78-1). Metaphyseal localization results...

A k-core of a graph is a maximal subgraph whose nodes have degree at least k in that subgraph. A node can appear in multiple k-cores. The core number of a node is the largest k among its k-cores. The degeneracy of a graph is the maximum core number among its nodes. Applications of k-cores and core numbers are numerous, including community detection and modeling spread on a network. We present a...

Background Exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. Accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in Iran.   Methods Required data were drawn from two Iran’s demographic and health survey (DHS) conducted in 2000 and 2010. Normalized...

The changes that occur in the human voice due to ageing have been well documented. The impact of these changes on speaker verification is less clear. In this work, we examine the effect of long-term vocal ageing on a speaker verification system. On a cohort of 13 adult speakers, using a conventional GMM-UBM system, we carry out longitudinal testing of each speaker across a time span of 30-40 ye...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is a major cause of preventable deaths in hospitals. Feasible and valid methods for comparing quality of sepsis care between hospitals are needed. The aim of this study was to develop a risk-adjustment model suitable for comparing sepsis-related mortality between German hospitals. METHODS We developed a risk-model using national German claims data. Since these data are avail...

AIM To study whether monthly variations in type 1 diabetes incidence are related to monthly glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels at diagnosis and if high HbA1c at diagnosis is related to certain clinical variables at diagnosis and during the clinical course of the disease. METHODS Data from 4430 boys and 3590 girls registered in the Swedish paediatric diabetes quality registry, Swedish paediat...