Odontoid process fracture accounts for 5% to 15% of all cervical spine injuries, and the rate is higher among elderly people. The anterior cannulated screw fixation has been widely used in odontoid process fracture, but the fixation strength may still be limited under some circumstances. This study aims to investigate the biomechanical fixation strength of expansive double-threaded bi-direction...

The clinical efficacy and safety profile of propranolol 1% cream in treatment of superficial infantile hemangiomas (IHs) were determined in a preliminary randomized group of eight infants. Five boys and three girls, 3 to 12 months old, with an IHs superficial capillary type on the forehead, posterior side of the neck, forearm, abdomen, or posterior side of the trunk were examined at our outpati...

BACKGROUND Intrahepatic splenosis (IHS) is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue that mostly develops after abdominal injury and is often misdiagnosed as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) because of similarities in radiological features. We had an opportunity to treat an extremely rare case of intrahepatic splenosis, which were found in a patient without any history of splenic injury. To the b...

BACKGROUND Migraine is a chronic episodic disorder that is still under-diagnosed and undertreated. A rapid diagnostic method is desirable so that treatment can be initiated early. We compared the 3-question headache screen with the International Headache Society (IHS) criteria in the diagnosis of migraine among Nigerians. METHODS Using a multi-stage sampling technique, 1513 respondents were s...

What is the prevalent topology among interaction networks? How do consumers balance between generalism and performance when exploiting different resources? These two long-standing, still open questions have been unified under a common framework by integrative hypothesis of specialization (IHS). According to IHS, ecological structured processes at small large network hierarchical levels, from an...

Objective: We compared the analgesic efficacy of ultrasonography (USG)-guided quadratus lumborum (QL) and transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks in infants undergoing elective unilateral inguinal hernia surgery (IHS). Material Methods: This single-center, randomized, single-blind, 2-arm clinical trial included 60 IHS (aged 1 month to year) with ASA I'II. The patients were randomized into QL b...

We investigate utilizing the integer programming (IP) technique of reduced cost fixing to improve maximum satisfiability (MaxSAT) solving. In particular, we show how reduced cost fixing can be used within the implicit hitting set approach (IHS) for solving MaxSAT. Solvers based on IHS have proved to be quite effective for MaxSAT, especially on problems with a variety of clause weights. The uniq...

China is experiencing a drastic loss of arable land as a result of the continuing process of rapid urbanization. This loss could have an adverse impact not only on China’s sustainable development but also on the world food market. To provide a robust and economical tool for evaluating the impact of this process, we developed an IHS (Intensity, Hue, Saturation)-based approach for detecting the c...

We provide a unified optimization view of iterative Hessian sketch (IHS) and iterative dual random projection (IDRP). We establish a primal-dual connection between the Hessian sketch and dual random projection, and show that their iterative extensions are optimization processes with preconditioning. We develop accelerated versions of IHS and IDRP based on this insight together with conjugate gr...

Image fusion is an important tool in remote sensing, as many Earth observation satellites provide both high-resolution panchromatic and low-resolution multispectral images. To date, many image fusion techniques have been developed. However, the available algorithms can hardly produce a satisfactory fusion result for IKONOS and QuickBird images. Among the existing fusion algorithms, the IHS tech...