OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare healing, with and without the use of bone graft, of the gap created during tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA). STUDY DESIGN Prospective study and case series. ANIMALS Dogs treated with TTA (n=67). METHODS Prospective study: Mediolateral radiographic projections (6 weeks and 4 months) after TTA without use of bone graft (group I, n=14) were compared with ...

BACKGROUND Correct triage based on prehospital information contributes to a better outcome for potentially seriously injured patients. In 2011 we changed the trauma team activation (TTA) criteria in our center in order to improve the high over- and undertriage properties of the protocol. Five criteria that were unable to predict severe injury were removed. In the present study, we evaluated the...

Singlet fission (SF) and its inverse, triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA), are promising strategies for enhancing photovoltaic efficiencies. However, detailed descriptions of the processes SF/TTA not fully understood even in...

OBJECTIVE To describe the surgical technique, early results and complications of tibial tuberosity advancement (TTA) for treatment for cranial cruciate ligament (CrCL)-deficient stifle joints in dogs. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective clinical study. ANIMALS Dogs (n=101) with CrCL-deficient stifles (114). METHODS Medical records of 101 dogs that had TTA were reviewed. Complications were recorded...

Due to the decreasing feature size of VLSI technology, the amount of hardware which can be integrated into a single chip increases. As a result, future processor chips can execute tens of operations concurrently. Many applications can profit from these huge amounts of hardware parallelism by designing application specific processors. Two problems emerge however: 1) the design space gets large; ...

Following amputation, people with transfemoral amputation (TFA) and transtibial amputation (TTA) adapt with asymmetrical movements in the spinal and lower-limb joints. The aim of this review is to describe the trunk, lumbopelvic, and hip joint movement asymmetries of the amputated limb of people with TFA and TTA during functional tasks as compared with the intact leg and/or referent leg of nond...

Triplet-triplet annihilation (TTA) based up-conversion is a promising strategy for light harvesting the low-energy tail of the solar spectrum with photovoltaic technologies. Here, we present a bi-component system for photon managing via TTA that allows bypassing the classical statistic limit of 2/5 in the singlet generation, achieving a near unitary conversion efficiency. This result is obtaine...

Recent research has focused on the design of intelligent prosthetic ankle devices with the goal of adapting the behavior of the device to accommodate all walking surfaces that an individual encounters in daily life. One surface that is particularly difficult for persons with transtibial amputation (TTA) is uneven ground. Patients with TTA have an increased frequency of falling on uneven ground ...

We provide a review of the progress in materials and applications TTA-UC: biological, environmental/energy, OLED, other applications. Moreover, an excellent demonstration TTA-UC based technologies are presented each chapter.

AIM To evaluate the serum levels of anti-tetanus toxin antibodies (anti-TTA) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and in a control group. METHODS Totally, 100 patients with type 2 DM and 100 age- and sex-matched healthy individuals were enrolled to study. The presence of type 2 DM confirmed according to the clinical and para-clinical criteria such as fasting plasma glucose above 126...