From 1981 through 1991, 3,032 primary total knee arthroplasties were performed using the Insall-Burstein Posterior Stabilized Condylar Prosthesis (IB-I, IB-II, and IB-II modified) (Zimmer, Warsaw, IN). Fifteen posterior dislocations occurred: 4 with the IB-I system occurring 2 or more years after surgery, 10 with the IB-II system (8 occurring 6 months after surgery and 2 occurring 2-3 years aft...

Activation of unmyelinated (C-fiber) nociceptors by noxious chemicals plays a critical role in the initiation and maintenance of injury-induced pain. C-fiber nociceptors can be divided into two groups in which one class depends on nerve growth factor during postnatal development and contains neuropeptides, and the second class depends on glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor during postna...

Deeply understanding HBT’s thermal characteristics and safe operating area (SOA) is critical to the improvement of power amplifier’s robustness and reliability. In this paper, first, we measured DC IV curves for our HBT unit cells with various sizes at the current density up to over 300kA/cm2. Due to the observed unconventional phenomenon at high injection level, we defined SOA in terms of the ...

in the present study, 360 male day-old broiler chicks were used to determine the effect of mixed livevaccines of newcastle disease (nd) and infectious bronchitis (ib) on serum and local antibody responses toib. chicks were randomly divided into 12 treatment groups of 3 replicates and reared for 40 days on floorpens. groups 1 to 5 received mixed nd and ib vaccine. groups 7 to 11 received ib vacc...

Given an index set X, a collection IB of subsets of X (all of the same cardinality), and a collection f`xgx2X of commuting linear maps on some linear space, the family of linear operators whose joint kernel K = K(IB) is sought consists of all `A :=Qa2A `a with A any subset of X which intersects every B 2 IB. The goal is to establish conditions, on IB and `, which ensure that dimK(IB) = X B2IBdi...

BACKGROUND The study objective was to compare the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) and the RTI item bank (RTI-IB) and estimate interrater agreement using the RTI-IB within a systematic review on the cardiovascular safety of glucose-lowering drugs. METHODS We tailored both tools and added four questions to the RTI-IB. Two reviewers assessed the quality of the 44 included studies with both tools, (...

Recently, Dario Fiore and Rosario Gennaro proposed the IB-KA protocol, which was inspired by MQV protocol. They provide a full proof of security of IB-KA protocol using techniques developed by Krawczyk in the Canetti-Krawczyk model. They designed the IB-KA protocol with some security properties such as perfect forward secrecy, reflection attack resilience, and key compromise impersonation resil...

A series of novel 2-aminopyrimidine and 2-Substituted-4,6-diaminopyrimidine derivatives have been synthesized and their anti platelet aggregation activities were assessed against ADP and arachidonic acid- induced platelet aggregation in human plasma using light transmission aggregometry. None of the compounds showed satisfactory activity against the aggregation induced by ADP. However, satisfac...

Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite that causes amoebic dysentery in humans. The disease is prevalent worldwide. Infection with E. histolytica results in invasion of the intestine by the parasite, followed by tissue damage and inflammation. During this invasive process, parasites kill and phagocytose human epithelial cells, immune cells and erythrocytes. Expression of amoebic pathogen...