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Dillon (Michael) China's Muslims
No full textAubin Françoise. Dillon (Michael) China's Muslims. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°102, 1998. p. 112
Dillon Michael, China’s Muslim Hui Community. Migration, Settlement and Sects. Curzon Press, Richmond (G.-B.), 1999
No full textAubin Françoise. Dillon Michael, China’s Muslim Hui Community. Migration, Settlement and Sects. Curzon Press, Richmond (G.-B.), 1999. In: Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, n°17, 2001. pp. 40-41
Loading Applied on Trans-Femoral Osseointegrated Prostheses
No full textA lower-limb prosthesis is conventionally attached to the residual limb by a socket and often some suspension devices. Although this approach has been used for over 50 years, previous studies have pointed the phenomena that local limb pain and soft tissue breakdown are common. High pressure applied from the prosthetic socket onto the residual limb is the major cause of the problems.\ud
Researchers are developing a surgical approach using osseointegration for directly connecting a prosthesis into the femur using a fixation system with a titanium implant. The absence of a prosthetic socket can alleviate the skin problems. This procedure increased significantly the quality of life of amputees. However, the current rehabilitation is long and some occasional mechanical failures of the fixation following a fall were reported. Understanding the load applied on the osseointegrated fixation is one important step to solve these problems. \ud
This article presents the load applied on the fixation of twelve trans-femoral amputees during level walking
Static load bearing during early rehabilitation of transfemoral amputees using osseointegrated fixation
No full textMany transfemoral amputees wearing conventional socket prostheses experience pain related to the socket-residuum interface and difficulties with socket retention or fit due to a short residuum. In consideration of these problems a direct skeletal fixation method has been developed whereby a titanium implant is screwed into the medullary canal of the residual femur. Prosthetic components are directly attached to the fixation, once osseointegrated, removing the need for a prosthetic socket.\ud
The rehabilitation program to return to ambulation involves incremental static loading of the fixation until full weight bearing is achieved. The rate of loading, which is intended to be isolated to the long axis of the fixation, is determined by the quality of the residual skeleton and a qualitative assessment of the pain experienced by the amputee on loading. Rotational loading of the implant is to be avoided at this stage. The amputee uses a domestic weigh-scale to provide feedback of the load applied. This study aims to measure the true load applied to the fixation and compare this with the clinically prescribed axial load
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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