Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) is a condition in which the patellar tendon insertion on the tibial tuberosity becomes inflamed. It is a well-known condition in late childhood characterized by pain and a bony prominence over the tibial tuberosity. Usually, it resolves at the end stages of skeletal growth. Boys are affected more often than girls, and the age of affection is typically in the secon...

A sensitive and reproducible high-performance liquid chromatography-fluorescence method was developed and validated for quantitative determination of indoxyl sulfate in plasma using methyl paraben as an internal standard. The separation was carried out on an OSD-2 C18 Spherisorb column by isocratic elusion with sodium acetate buffer (pH 4.5) and acetonitrile (10:90, v/v) as the mobile phase. Th...

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dysfunction due to congenital fixation or tethering of the distal spinal cord by the terminal filum is known as TCS. This member of the OSD family is often seen by pediatric and general neurosurgeons, and both the diagnosis and treatment are controversial and can be difficult. Drawing from a detailed literature review and our own experience with this entity at the Children’s Hospital, Birmingha...

Multiagent systems are increasingly being used to solve a wide variety of problems in a range of applications such as distributed sensing, information retrieval, workflow and business process management, air traffic control and spacecraft control, amongst others. Each of these systems have to be designed at two levels: the micro-architecture level, which involves the design of the individual ag...

A novel architecture design of large-scale distributed object storage system (called DOSS) is proposed. Our design takes several aspects effecting on the overall performance of DOSS into consideration, including an improved model of interaction based on the traditional interactive mode of object-based storage systems, MDS(Metadata Server) management scheme and a load balancing scheme combines t...