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Correlation between C7–T1 Intervertebral Foramen Area and Sagittal Parameters in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

open access: yesOrthopaedic Surgery, 2022
Objective Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is an incomplete spinal cord injury characterized with pain and stiffness in the neck and motor and sensory dysfunction.
Lilong Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Total Factor Productivity and the Cost‐Effectiveness of GHG Emission Reduction: The Case of Crop Production in China

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's diversified agricultural policies have effectively improved both the yield and environmental performance of the crop sector. Quantifying productivity trends and their drivers is key to formulating strategies for high‐quality and low‐carbon crop development.
Yang Liu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spinal phantom comparability study of Cobb angle measurement of scoliosis using digital radiographic imaging

open access: yesJournal of Orthopaedic Translation, 2018
Summary: Background: Computed radiography (CR), digital radiography (DR) and biplanar radiography (EOS™ imaging system) are common imaging tools for radiographic evaluation of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
Ni Chung   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cobb Angle Progression in Adolescent Scoliosis Begins at the Intervertebral Disc [PDF]

open access: yesSpine, 2009
Longitudinal radiographic study of patients with progressive idiopathic scoliosis.To determine the relative contributions of vertebral and disc wedging to the increase in Cobb angle during 3 phases of adolescent skeletal growth and maturation.Both disc wedging and vertebral body wedging are found in progressive scoliosis, but their relative ...
Ryan E, Will   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

An Application of Artificial Intelligence to Diagnostic Imaging of Spine Disease: Estimating Spinal Alignment From Moiré Images [PDF]

open access: yesNeurospine, 2019
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool supporting the diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases is eagerly anticipated. In the field of diagnostic imaging, the possible application of AI includes diagnostic support for diseases requiring ...
Kota Watanabe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insights from the Presidential Addresses to the Agricultural Economics Society

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Society's published presidential addresses have embraced a wide range of subject matter, reflecting a ‘road well travelled’ in agricultural economics. The areas covered include the development and use of data and statistics, lessons from history, sectoral analysis, land economics, international trade and international development.
David Blandford
wiley   +1 more source

Direct Estimation of Spinal Cobb Angles by Structured Multi-output Regression [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2017)
Haoliang Sun   +5 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Increased Neck Tilt/T1 slope ratio may play an important role in patients with cervical kyphosis

open access: yesBMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2021
Background In previous studies, we demonstrated that the T1 slope (T1s) is associated with clinical outcomes, but the results were not specific for individuals.
Zhibin Lan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anticoagulant Rodenticides Contribute to a Decline in an Urban Carnivore

open access: yesAnimal Conservation, EarlyView.
Anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) have been shown to negatively affect carnivores globally and are closely tied to human activity and development. We examined drivers of annual survival in bobcats persisting on a residentially developed barrier island over 16 years.
Meghan P. Keating   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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