CONTEXT Sports-related injuries of the hip are a common complaint of both competitive and recreational athletes of all ages. The anatomic and biomechanical complexity of the hip region often cause diagnostic uncertainty for the clinicians evaluating these injuries. Therefore, obtaining additional diagnostic information is often crucial for providing injured athletes with a prompt and accurate d...

Decompilation is reconstruction of a program in a high-level language from a program in a low-level language. Possibility and feasibility of decompilation is a subject of controversy over last years. We present several arguments supporting the idea that in spite of impossibility of full automatic decompilation there exist methods and techniques that cover most of decompilation process for wide ...

This paper discusses the use of design patterns during the transition phase from analysis to design of object-oriented systems. Pattern mining, which is the process of finding and documenting design patterns, usually takes place during or after the development of a software system. This paper introduces several new design patterns that were discovered through the experience of teaching object-o...

During last year, we have more information about minimally invasive therapeutic procedures in medicine that have become very popular. The reasons included reducing risk compared to classic surgical treatment, easy recovery, less complications, and lower cost. One of these methods is ultrasonography-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA). Low-level laser therapy was first reported in chronic autoi...

We describe the implementation of asynchronous function calls and remote partial evaluated function calls in . Both constructs are high level constructs that hide low level programming details. In the talk we present examples and show results.

PURPOSE To investigate whether ultrasound can stimulate osteoconduction in the mandible, an attempt was made to stimulate the osteoconductive process with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 64 rats, a 5.0-mm diameter circular mandibular defect was made in the ramus and, subsequently, covered on both sides with collagen membranes. Two groups were studied, an ultr...

OBJECTIVE To establish reference range for uterine artery (UtA) Doppler pulsatility index (PI) using transvaginal ultrasound at 20-24w6d of gestation in a Brazilian population. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study in 847 low-risk pregnant women undergoing routine second trimester ultrasound examination was conducted from February 2012 through March 2015. The mean UtA PI ...

Class cohesion metrics apply different approaches to quantify the relatedness of the attributes and methods in a class. These relations can be direct or transitive. Method invocations are among the key sources of potential transitive attribute-method relations. That is, a method is not only related to the attributes that it references, but it may also be transitively related to the attributes r...

Abstract Objective: To evaluate and compare the analgesic effects of caudal epidural administration of lidocaine (LIDO), caudal laser radiation and epidural lidocaine plus laser radiation in horses. Study design: A blinded, randomized, prospective, experimental cross-over study. Animals: Five healthy horses, 15.7 +/- 4.9 years of age, weighing 240 +/- 37 kg. Methods: The...