INTRODUCTION Most previous reports indicate that traditional bilateral kyphoplasty improves patient function and restores height of collapsed vertebral bodies, but limited data about the effects of unilateral kyphoplasty on clinical and radiological outcome are available. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred five patients were treated by unilateral kyphoplasty between January 2004 and December 20...

Abstract Indoor air pollution is found to be twice more dangerous as in the environment, especially 80-90% of people when they are indoors. Children susceptible diseases caused by poor indoor quality. Typically, students spend 60-90% their time indoors, with most at school. The targeted study areas Telkom Education Areas such VHS, SHS, JHS, and Tourism-VHS. assessment procedure used a standard ...

The overall goal of this study was to assess the mechanistic fidelity of continuum-level finite element models of the vertebral body, which represent a promising tool for understanding and predicting clinical fracture risk. Two finite element (FE) models were generated from micro-CT scans of each of 13 T9 vertebral bodies--a micro-FE model at 60-micron resolution and a coarsened, continuum-leve...

This study explored vocational high school (VHS) students’ identity and investment during their English learning in the class at a private VHS rural area. The aim of this was to understand how student impacted English. also attempted seek factors that influenced To answer research questions study, narrative method applied. involved six students from VHS. data were collected through semi-structu...

OBJECTIVES Pain is often poorly managed, highlighting the need to better understand and treat patients' pain. Research suggests that pain is assessed and treated differently depending on patient sex, race, and/or age. Perspective-taking, whereby one envisions the perspective of another, has been found to reduce racial disparities in pain management. This study used virtual human (VH) technology...

Post-operative Atrial Fibrillation (POAF), occurring in nearly 20-50 percent of cardiovascular surgery (CVS) patients, is associated with prolonged hospitalization and excess costs care. Peri-operative Amiodarone prophylaxis has been an effective strategy to reduce the incidence POAF. A retrospective evaluation impact on post-operative length hospital (LOS) stay, according CVS procedure types. ...

conclusions independent of their level, professional soccer players, need 48 hours to recover after an official match. professionals gain more fatigue than young players after a match, but recover as fast. thus, they recover more efficiently especially due to a better physical condition and fitness training. it is expected that the results showed in the study help elite soccer and fitness coach...

Morphological integration and modularity, which describe the relationships among morphological attributes and reflect genetic, developmental, and functional interactions, have been hypothesized to be major influences on trait responses to selection and thus morphological evolution. The mammalian presacral vertebral column shows little variation in vertebral count and therefore specialization fo...

We present and validate a variance reduced deviational particle method for simulating the Boltzmann transport equation for the variable hard sphere (VHS) collision operator. In comparison with the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, the proposed method is more suitable for simulating transport in regimes where the departure from equilibrium is small, such as dilute gas flows in small-s...

This study aims to examine the effect of students' internal factors (information literacy, self-understanding, and attitude) on their decision enroll in mechanical engineering program vocational high school. It is ex-post facto correlation research using a sample 300 out total 1,086 students. The was established proportional random sampling technique by means Krejcie Morgan formula. data were c...