INTRODUCTION In November 2011, the Knee Society published its new KSS score to evaluate objective clinical data and also patient expectations, satisfaction and knee function during various physical activities before and after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We undertook the French cross-cultural adaptation of this scoring system according to current recommendations. HYPOTHESIS The French versi...

This paper reported an unusual manifestation of a 19-year-old Chinese male patient presented with a complex phenotype of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome and Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS). He was admitted to our hospital with the chief complaint of "acute fever, headache and slow reaction for 21 days". He was initially misdiagnosed as "vir...

In many behavioral domains, such as facial expression and gesture, sparse structure is prevalent. This sparsity would be well suited for event detection but for one problem. Features typically are confounded by alignment error in space and time. As a consequence, high-dimensional representations such as SIFT and Gabor features have been favored despite their much greater computational cost and ...

For scalar time-dependent variable-coefficient PDE, it has been demonstrated that Krylov subspace spectral (KSS) methods achieve high-order accuracy and also possess highly desirable stability properties, especially considering that they are explicit. In this paper, we examine the generalization of these methods to systems of variable-coefficient PDE by selection of appropriate bases of trial a...

This study aimed to determine whether psychological factors affect health-related quality of life (HRQL) and recovery of knee function in total knee replacement (TKR) patients. A total of 119 TKR patients (male: 38; female: 81) completed the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-revised (EPQR-S), Kn...

DNA studies in patients with Kearns‑Sayre syndrome and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. We appreciate the readers' interest and their comprehensive comments and advice about the article, [1] which mainly concerned details of the patients' information. In this paper, we reported 19 Kearns‑Sayre syndrome (KSS) patients whose diagnoses were in accordance with the current clinical diag...

Background. The Knowledge Source Server (KSS) allows users to browse virtually every bit of information in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). In KSS, the presentation of contextual information from the Metathesaurus tends to reflect the organization of terms in the source vocabularies. For example, hierarchically related concepts are presented as lists of indented terms, one list for e...

The ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density η/s of any material in nature has been conjectured to have a lower bound of 1/4π, the famous KSS bound. We examine string theory models for evidence in favour of and against this conjecture. We show that in a broad class of models quantum corrections yield values of η/s just above the KSS bound. However, incorporating matter fields in the fundamen...

Bu makalede Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluk (KSS), neoliberal yönetişimin bir aracı olarak ele alınmaktadır ve Türkiye’deki KSS pratiği bu çerçeveden incelenmektedir. Makale, dört eksen temelinde KSS’nin değerlendirilebileceğini ileri sürmektedir: Birincisi, politikaların ‘minimal devlet’ savının tamamlayıcısı alınabilir. İkincisi, faaliyetlerinin uluslararası kuruluşların yardımıyla yerel ekonomile...