PURPOSE To assess the short-term outcome of cementless total hip arthroplasty involving an autograft of the femoral head in Japanese patients. METHODS Cementless total hip arthroplasty with autogenous bone block grafting was performed on 18 hips in 15 patients with marked acetabular dysplasia. The resected femoral head was used as a graft for the superior-lateral region of the true acetabulum...

Fusion of the anaplastic lymphoma receptor tyrosine kinase gene (ALK) with the echinoderm microtubule-associated protein 4 gene (EML4) is the second most common actionable alteration in non-small-cell lung cancer, with a frequency of 5%. Here, we present a case of an EML4-ALK-positive patient with an atypical in-frame insertion from the LTBP1 gene in the canonical junction of variant 1. The pat...

a simple, selective and sensitive method for the determination of trace amount of titanium (iv) based on its catalytic effect on methylene blue- ascorbic acid redox reaction has been reported. the reaction was followed spectrophotometrically by measuring the change in absorbance of methylene blue at 665 nm, 5 minutes after the initiation of the reaction. in this study experimental parameters we...

BACKGROUND Peripheral intravenous catheter-related phlebitis is a common and significant problem in clinical practice. This study was carried out to determine the occurrence of peripheral intravenous catheter related phlebitis and to define the possible factors associated to its development. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prospective observational study was carried out on 230 clients who were under fi...

BACKGROUND The techniques of lower blepharoplasty are evolving to reflect the concept that the lower eyelid contour does not stop at the inferior orbital rim, and that the lid-cheek junction must often be modified to restore the midface to a youthful configuration. Multiple procedures have been proposed to smooth the lid-cheek junction and tear trough. The author proposes a technique of carbon ...

The genus Adelophryne is composed of diminutive frogs occurring in northern Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest. Herein we describe a new species of Adelophryne found in the leaf litter of primary and secondary forests in the mountainous region of Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil. The new species is characterized by its small body size, two phalanges in the finger IV, and a glandular ridg...

Tn5096 was constructed by inserting an apramycin resistance gene, aac(3)IV, into IS493 from Streptomyces lividans. By using conventional and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, Tn5096 and related transposons were shown to insert into many different locations in the Streptomyces griseofuscus chromosome and in two linear plasmids. On insertion into the target site CANTg, 3 bp appeared to be duplica...

This abstract describes the development of algorithms for personalized anxiety reduction feedback for use by a robot buddy interacting with a child about to receive intravenous therapy (an IV insertion). This three-phase study is currently being conducted; it consists of two data collections to determine domain-specific approaches, followed by the full study with personalized anxiety-reducing f...

We derive constraints on the mass insertion parameters from the recent measurements of Bs–Bs mixing, and discuss their implications on SUSY breaking mediation mechanisms and SUSY flavor models. Some SUSY flavor models are already excluded or disfavored by Bs–Bs mixing. We also discuss how to test the SM and SUSY models in the future experiments, by studying other CP violating observables relate...

On the Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs), the interconnection geometry influences the ElectroMagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and the Signal Integrity (SI). The impact increases when circuits with a non-linear behavior are connected at their terminations. An accurate EMC analysis requires an electromagnetic solver including the model of those non-linear components. The insertion is made via lumped elem...