Abstract Aim Osteoporotic fractures are rising in incidence, costing the National Health Service up to £1.1 billion for hospital care. The implementation of Best Practice Tariff (BPT) fragility 2010 created a financial incentive achieve standards best practice. In June 2015, dedicated hip fracture unit (HFU) was set at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH). aim this study is (A) assess changes performa...

The binary partition tree (BPT) allows for the hierarchical representation of images in a multiscale way, by providing nodes corresponding to image regions. In particular, cuts BPT can be interpreted as segmentations associated image. Building an then constitutes relevant preliminary step optimization-based segmentation methods. A wide literature has been devoted construction BPTs, and their in...

Our objective was to study the effects of housing conditions and the amount of boar contact in a protocol for estrus detection on estrus detection rate, timing of onset of estrus, duration of estrus, and timing of ovulation. After weaning, 130 multiparous sows were assigned to three treatments: HI, in which 52 sows were housed individually in crates and received a high amount of boar contact du...

The accumulation of contaminating materials on the rotor blades of a gas turbine flowmeter is a condition of concern to the manufacturers, since it can lead to loss of calibration. Over time, a deposit of tar and heavy oil mixed with sand and dust can build up on the rotor blades, which causes the meter factor to change from its original value of calibration. A novel neural-network technique is...

A new general solution for the construction of one-to-one image warping functions is presented. The algorithm takes a set of user speci ed translations and constructs a set of one-to-one warps by interpolation and scaling. These are concatenated to produce a single one-to-one warping function, which prevents overlap in the resultant warped image. Perception Laboratory, School of Psychology, Uni...

We propose a new qualitative spatial logic for reasoning about partwhole relations between geometries (sets of points) represented in different geospatial datasets, in particular crowd-sourced datasets. Since geometries in crowdsourced data can be less inaccurate or precise, we buffer geometries by a margin of error or level of tolerance σ , and define part-whole relation for buffered geometrie...

Poor braking performance on runways during winter is one of the most significant factors causing runway excursions. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) proposed a standardized method, named Global Reporting Format (GRF), to establish surface conditions based human observers. GRF includes description conditions. This work aimed at reproducing in laboratory, and monitor effect co...

BACKGROUND Oedema disease is a severe disease, mainly affecting recently weaned pigs. It is caused by E. coli strains that express fimbriae F18 and produce verotoxin 2e, mainly belonging to serotype O138, O139 or O141. The aim of this study was to compare E. coli isolates within these serotypes with respect to diversity. METHODS Faecal E. coli strains belonging to serotypes O138, O139 and O14...