Stemming is an important step in many of the Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. Stemming is usually done by removing any attached suffixes and prefixes (affixes) from index terms before the actual assignment of the term to the index. Stemming is a pre-processing step in Text Mining applications and basic requirement for many areas such as computational lingu...

In this pilot study, a 3D printed Grade V titanium dental implant with a novel dual-stemmed design was investigated for its biocompatibility in vivo. Both dual-stemmed (n = 12) and conventional stainless steel conical (n = 4) implants were inserted into the tibial metaphysis of New Zealand white rabbits for 3 and 12 weeks and then retrieved with the surrounding bone, fixed, dehydrated, and embe...

Summary Tephrosia kindiana , a new plant species from Guinea, is described and illustrated. It shrub 90 – 120 cm tall, multi-stemmed the base. The leaves have 5 13 oblanceolate leaflets; inflorescence consists of solitary flowers in leaf axils, or 2 3-flowered fascicles; are orange 24 26 mm long. occurs wooded grassland on sandstone plateaus at 300 420 m elevation. Three localities known, up to...

In frequently burned ecosystems, many plants persist by repeated resprouting from basal or belowground buds. This strategy requires that plants reach a balance between biomass loss and recovery, which depends on the shape of the relationship between pre- and post-fire size. Previous analyses of this relationship, however, have focused on the size of the largest stem, which ignores the importanc...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to compare the functional midterm outcome of stemless shoulder prostheses with standard anatomical stemmed shoulder prostheses and to show that the STEMLESS results are comparable to the STEMMED with respect to active maximum range of shoulder motion (ROM) and Constant score (CS). METHODS Seventeen patients underwent total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) in 25 ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of repeated dry season annual hot fires on woody plants in a semi-arid southern African savanna in Zimbabwe. Parts of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) research fields in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe have been burnt annually in the dry season between 1994 and 2003 in order to control bush encroachment. The present study was...