background pain is an important consideration after renal surgery. a multimodal approach to postoperative pain management could enhance analgesia by risking fewer side effects after surgery. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of the subcutaneous infiltration of ketamine and tramadol at the incision site to reduce postoperative pain. methods sixty-four patient...

background: morphine and lidocaine are known to influence the perception of pain. the present study sought to determine the influence of local administration of morphine on lidocaine-induced analgesia in morphine non-dependent (mnd), morphine dependent (md) and morphine withdrawal (mw) animals. methods: adult male wistar rats were divided into four groups: control, mnd, md and mw rats. lidocain...

The present study was performed to evaluate the on-station growth performance of local and Dorper × local crossbred sheep in eastern Amhara region, Ethiopia. Data on 302 lambs collected over a 4-year period (2009 to 2012) on local and Dorper × local crossbred sheep at Sirinka breeding, evaluation and distribution site were used in this study. Fixed effects considered were breed, lamb sex, birth...

Palmprint recognition is a new biometrics system based on physiological characteristics of the palmprint, which includes rich, stable, and unique features such as lines, points, and texture. Texture is one of the most important features extracted from low resolution images. In this paper, a new local descriptor, Local Composition Derivative Pattern (LCDP) is proposed to extract smartly stronger...

the present study was performed to evaluate the on-station growth performance of local and dorper × local crossbred sheep in eastern amhara region, ethiopia. data on 302 lambs collected over a 4-year period (2009 to 2012) on local and dorper × local crossbred sheep at sirinka breeding, evaluation and distribution site were used in this study. fixed effects considered were breed, lamb sex, birth...

In this paper, we study the complexity of computing locally optimal solutions for weighted versions of standard set problems such as SETCOVER, SETPACKING, and many more. For our investigation, we use the framework of PLS, as defined in Johnson et al., [13]. We show that for most of these problems, computing a locally optimal solution is already PLS-complete for a simple natural neighborhood of ...

A wireless local loop connects customer premise equipment to the local exchange on the public switched telephone network using radio signals. Compared to wireline local loops, wireless local loops are easier to deploy and less costly to maintain. One of the most important considerations in deploying wireless local loops is to determine the best channel allocation algorithm. This paper provides ...

Local government remains in a state of flux in Great Britain. Currently being 'modernised' by the New Labour Government, it has been subject to radical programmes of reform for most of the last twenty years. This paper will describe and analyse those programmes of reform focusing attention on the kinds of reform strategy that have been introduced, the goals of those reform strategies (legitimac...

Local scouring around bridge piers is a natural phenomenon caused by the erosive process of flowing stream on alluvial beds. The 3D flow field around bridge piers interacting with the bed materials increases complexity of local scour process. The local scour depth develops in accelerated flows and if it is not predicted correctly, the bottom level of local scour hole will exceed the original le...