PURPOSE To compare 5 different Kirschner wire fixation techniques in terms of the failure loads seen as scapholunate (SL) dissociation in a cadaveric, biomechanical study. METHODS 10 fresh-frozen, finger-amputated wrists with sectioned SL ligaments from 3 male and 2 female cadavers were tested. The change of SL angle, SL dissociation, and the load to failure of the 5 different Kirschner wire ...

We show that the natural representation of SL 3 SL 5 SL 13 allows nonlinear equivariant automorphisms; more exactly, the group of polynomial au-tomorphisms on C 3 C 5 C 13 commuting with the simple SL 3 SL 5 SL 13-action is isomorphic to C n C. This is the rst example of a simple module with nonlinear equivariant automorphisms.

he study is categorized into four main sections. Introduction section introduces the rationale of the paper and SL. Next section reviews the studies on Second Life in EFL learning, and focuses on the effects of SL on affective states, interaction and communication in SL, collaborative and autonomous learning in SL, sharing culture in SL, engagement and participation in SL, some other issues and...

A generalization of the Jordan–Schwinger map: classical version and its q–deformation. Abstract For all three–dimensional Lie algebras the construction of generators in terms of functions on 4-dimensional real phase space is given with a realization of the Lie product in terms of Poisson brackets. This is the classical Jordan–Schwinger map which is also given for the deformed algebras SL q (2, ...

The unitarity of the NS supersymmetric coset SL(2, R)/U(1) is studied for the discrete representations. The results are applied to the proof of the no-ghost theorem for fermionic strings in AdS3×N in the NS sector. A no-ghost theorem is proved for states in flowed discrete representations.

Let Fq be a finite field of characteristic p having q elements, where q = p and p ≥ 5. Let SL(2,Z3) be the special linear group of 2 × 2 matrices with determinant 1 over Z3. In this note we establish the structure of the unit group of FqSL(2,Z3). 2010 MSC: 16U60, 20C05

Four B-class MADS box genes specify petal and stamen organ identities in tomato. Several homeotic mutants affected in petal and stamen development were described in this model species, although the causal mutations have not been identified for most of them. In this study we characterized a strong stamenless mutant in the tomato Primabel cultivar (sl-Pr), which exhibited homeotic conversion of p...

A cross-sectional comparative study was carried out to investigate the productive and reproductive performances of different genetic groups of crossbred cows at three different farming conditions in Bangladesh. Crossbred cows (n=90) those already completed third lactations, were selected randomly from three different dairy farms (e.g. Jarip, Mullah and Nahar) located in Chittagong, Bangladesh. ...

BACKGROUND Service-learning (SL) is a contested field of knowledge and issues of sustainability and scholarship have been raised about it. The South African Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) has provided policy documents to guide higher education institutions (HEIs) in the facilitation of SL institutionalisation in their academic programmes. An implementation framework was therefore nee...