On December 10, 1998, Sun Microsystems lodged a complaint with the European Commission relating to Microsoft Corporation’s refusal to give Sun the information and technology necessary to allow its work group server operating systems to interoperate effectively with the Windows client PC operating system. Thereafter, the Commission, acting on its own initiative, launched an investigation relatin...

Context: There is a need to determine if body exhaust suits which were initially used and recommended by Sir John Charnley has a role in minimizing bacterial shedding in the operating room. Evidence Acquisition: The English literature search conducted for relevant articles. 14 articles were relevant to the role of body exhaust system in total joint replacement. Results: There is controversial e...

The use of self-tapping screws with continuous threads in the joint area as a reinforcement to avoid splitting of timber members is studied. A theoretical model is developed to calculate the stress distribution around a pin-loaded hole in a timber joint, to predict brittle failure modes in bolted connections and to calculate the load in the reinforcing screws. Laboratory experiments on reinforc...

BACKGROUND Most cases of acute gouty arthritis are diagnosed in primary care and without joint fluid analysis in many instances. Our objectives were to estimate the validity of this diagnosis by family physicians and to develop a diagnostic rule. METHODS Patients with monoarthritis recruited in an open Dutch population with gout by family physician diagnosis were enrolled in a diagnostic stud...

OBJECTIVE To identify aspects of provision of total joint replacements which could be improved. DESIGN 10 month prospective study of hospital admissions and hospital costs for patients whose total joint replacement was cancelled. SETTING Information and Waiting List Unit, Musgrave Park Regional Orthopaedic Service, Belfast. PATIENTS 284 consecutive patients called for admission for total ...

BACKGROUND Ultraviolet lighting is an alternative to laminar airflow in the operating room that may be as effective for lowering the number of environmental bacteria and possibly lowering infection rates by killing the bacteria rather than simply reducing the number at the operative site. The purpose of the present study was to compare the infection rates following joint replacement procedures ...

In this paper we propose an implementation of the joint fixpoint semantics on top of the DLV system. Our framework provides a front-end to compromise logic programs (COLPs) representing agents’ requirements or desires in a multi-agent environment. By exploiting a direct mapping from COLP programs to classic logic programs we compute COLPs’ joint fixpoints modeling a common agreement among agent...

The objective of this study was to determine the joint effect of branding practices (BP) for fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV), farmer characteristics and operating environment on performance of commercial farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study hypothesis stated that: The joint effect of branding practices for fresh fruits and vegetables, farmer characteristics and operating environment on ...

We present a mean-field theory numerical study of Tkachenko waves of a vortex lattice in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condenstates. Our results show remarkable qualitative and quantitative agreement with recent experiments at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics. We extend our calculations beyond the conditions of the experiment, probing deeper into the incompressible regime where we...

The relative torque components (percentages of total hip torque) of 26 hip muscles about three joint axes were calculated using a human multibody model to determine muscle actions as a function of hip joint angle. It was demonstrated that the muscle actions obtained from this straight line model of hip musculature were in good agreement with published functions; the data on muscle function chan...