STUDY DESIGN A retrospective follow-up study of conservatively treated patients with mild cervical myelopathy caused by cervical soft disc herniation. OBJECTIVE To investigate the outcome of conservative treatment for patients with mild myelopathy caused by cervical soft disc herniation and to evaluate usefulness of magnetic resonance findings in the prediction of the outcomes. SUMMARY OF B...

AIM To assess the dimensions and patency of the surgical epithelial fistula after external dacryocystorhinostomy, using B mode ultrasonography to define the postoperative soft tissue anastomosis. METHODS 12 patients undergoing 16 external dacryocystorhinostomies, with the creation of large osteotomies, were included in a prospective study. The horizontal and vertical dimensions of the bone os...

Cathepsin B is a cysteine proteinase that primarily functions as an endopeptidase within endolysosomal compartments in normal cells. However, during tumoral expansion, the regulation of cathepsin B can be altered at multiple levels, thereby resulting in its overexpression and export outside of the cell. This may suggest a possible role of cathepsin B in alterations leading to cancer progression...

In this paper, we introduce two different notions of generalized supra soft sets namely supra A--soft sets and supra soft locally closed sets in supra soft topological spaces, which are weak forms of supra open soft sets and discuss their relationships with each other and other supra open soft sets [{it International Journal of Mathematical Trends and Technology} (IJMTT), (2014) Vol. 9 (1):37--...

We propose a theoretical framework within which a robust micromechanical definition of precursors to plastic instabilities, often termed soft spots, naturally emerges. They are shown to be collective displacements (modes) z[over ̂] that correspond to local minima of a barrier function b(z[over ̂]), which depends solely on inherent structure information. We demonstrate how some heuristic searches ...

Particle tracking and displacement covariance matrix techniques are employed to investigate the phonon dispersion relations of two-dimensional colloidal glasses composed of soft, thermoresponsive microgel particles whose temperature-sensitive size permits in situ variation of particle packing fraction. Bulk, B, and shear, G, moduli of the colloidal glasses are extracted from the dispersion rela...

We construct an effective field theory valid for processes in which highly energetic light-like particles interact with collinear and soft degrees of freedom, using the decay B → Xsγ near the endpoint of the photon spectrum, x = 2Eγ/mb → 1, as an example. Below the scale μ = mb both soft and collinear degrees of freedom are included in the effective theory, while below the scale μ = mb √ x− y, ...

Objective: To determine the effect of orthognathic surgery on soft tissue in Class IIIpatients and to compare the results of different surgical techniques. Materials and Methods: Forty-eight Class III adult patients were included in the study to assessthe changes in the soft tissue after orthognathic surgery. Nine patients were treated with Maxillary Advancement (MA), seven patients were treate...

M. Rebuzzi, F. Fasano, V. Vinicola, G. Hagberg, M. Di Mario, B. Maraviglia, and S. Capuani Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Rome, Italy, CNR-INFM SOFT, Rome, Rome, Italy, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Rome, Italy, Rehabilitation Hospital, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Rome, Italy, Neuroimaging laboratory, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Rome, Italy, Radiology, IRCCS S...