AIM To evaluate and compare the functional status in surgically treated patients with Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) compared with those treated conservatively by Levine Questionnaire (LQ) in relation to electroneurographic findings. METHODS The prospective study included 80 patients with diagnosed CTS. Patients were assessed clinically and electrophysiologically. The main outcome measures were...

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BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is caused by high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV). DNA testing of such high-risk types of HPV could improve cervical screening.The aim of the study was to compare the sensitivities and positive predictive values of two commercially available typing assays (Qiagen LQ and Roche LA) and to comparatively assess the distribution of HPV types with these two assays....

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G. BIRKHOFF and J . v . NEUMANN1 have shown in 1936 that the closed linear manifolds (subspaces) of the Hilbert space form a complete atomic and ortho-complemented lattice LQ which at least for finite dimensional subspaces is also modular. JAUCH 2 ' 3 , PIRON4 and KAMBER5 have pointed out, that instead of the modularity a weeker condition can be formulated in LQ which is always fulfilled for th...

Real and complex norms of a linear operator acting on a normed complexified space are considered. Bounds on the ratio of these norms are given. The real and complex norms are shown to coincide for four classes of operators: 1. real linear operators from Lp(μ1) to Lq(μ2), 1 ≤ p ≤ q ≤ ∞; 2. real linear operators between inner product spaces; 3. nonnegative linear operators acting between complexi...

We consider certain subsets of the space of n × n matrices of the form K = ∪i=1SO(n)Ai, and we prove that for p > 1, q ≥ 1 and for connected Ω ′ ⊂⊂ Ω ⊂ IR, there exists positive constant a < 1 depending on n, p, q,Ω,Ω such that for ε = ‖dist(Du,K)‖ Lp(Ω) we have infR∈K ‖Du−R‖ p Lp(Ω′) ≤ Mε1/p provided u satisfies the inequality ‖D2u‖ Lq(Ω) ≤ aε1−q . Our main result holds whenever m = 2, and als...

In this paper we will consider the regularity problem for the following obstacle problem. (1.1) inf Z jrvj p dx among the functions in W(''), where is a bounded C 2 domain in < n (n 2) and ' and are C 2-functions deened on w i t h ', a n d 1 < p < 1 such t h a t W('') = fv 2 W 1p (() : v ; ' 2 W 1p 0 (() and v a.e. in g Remark 1.1. The C 2 assumptions on and ' are purely technical to avoid comp...

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