OBJECTIVE To compare the analgesic benefit of preoperative skin traction with the placement of a pillow under the injured extremity in patients with hip fractures. DESIGN Prospective, randomized clinical study. SETTING University-affiliated teaching institution. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS One hundred consecutive patients with hip fractures admitted to the authors' institution who met inclu...

Currently, there is significant demand for pillows with improved pressure-relief features made from natural materials, alternatives to petrochemical-based foams. To meet the requirements, this study’s approach develop latex foam deproteinized rubber (DPNR) a unique dual-density cervical-shaped structure. In work, DPNR were produced at three different density levels which are high-density, mediu...

Rolling-based seismic isolation systems, in which rollers of circular or non-circular section are used, are less expensive and easier to manufacture. However, this type of isolation suffers from either lack of restoring or re-centering capability, or weakness against uplift forces. To resolve the first shortcoming the use of elliptical as well as pillow-shape rolling parts has been suggested, a...

Intervention Preoperatively, patients were allocated to have a pillow placed under the ipsilateral thigh of the injured hip in the resting position of the extremity (n=50, pillow group) or to placement of 5 pounds of skin traction, applied by fitting a foam traction boot to the injured extremity and then suspending a 5 pound weight over a pulley at the foot of the bed (n=50, traction group). Al...

Microbial corrosion textures in volcanic glass from Cenozoic seafloor basalts and the corresponding titanite replacement microtextures in metamorphosed Paleoarchean pillow lavas have been interpreted as evidence for a deep biosphere dating back in time through the earliest periods of preserved life on earth. This interpretation has been recently challenged for Paleoarchean titanite replacement ...

We discuss from a practical point of view a number of issues involved in writing Internet and WWW applications using LP/CLP systems. We describe PiLLoW, an Internet and WWW programming library for LP/CLP systems which we argue signiicantly simpliies the process of writing such applications. PiLLoW provides facilities for generating HTML structured documents, producing HTML forms, writing form h...

Jonathan W. Pillow, Jonathon Shlens, Liam Paninski, Alexander Sher, Alan M. Litke, E. J. Chichilnisky, Eero P. Simoncelli 1 Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL 2 The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 3 Department of Statistics and Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University 4 Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz 5 Howard Hughes ...