Transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion for traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis

To evaluate the clinical outcome, effectiveness and safety of the surgical management of traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis with transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) with short segmental instrumentation fixation. A retrospective review of a consecutive series of 24 patients with traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis treated with TLIF procedure was carried out. Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring was used to confirm the peripheral neural function intact during the reduction of the spondylolisthesis. Preoperative clinical and radiographic evaluation of all cases were originally collected prospectively. Data regarding blood loss, operative time, duration of hospital stay, radiographic fusion, instrumentation failure and clinical result were collected and observed at regular follow-up periods. All patients were engaged in high-energy accidents in the lower back and 16 patients had concomitant injuries. The mean operative time was 124 min, mean blood loss was 350 mL, and mean hospital stay was 6.5 days. There were no complications such as incision infection, cerebrospinal fluide (CSF) leakage and nerve root injury and so on. All patients demonstrated a solid lumbar interbody fusion within 4 months, and no evidence of spondylolisthesis correction loss, instrumentation failure and loosing. They all were completely asymptomatic, with normal neurologic findings, and had resumed their previous level of physical activities on the final follow-up. Meticulous clinical examination and careful imaging assessment could assist an early diagonosis in cases of traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis. Performing open reduction and the TLIF procedure as soon as possible could restore segmental stability and painless function. The TLIF procedure was a safe, effective technique to treat traumatic lumbar spondylolisthesis.     

Face recognition via adaptive image combination

Dimension reduction and manifold learning are the two most popular feature extraction methods. The two methods focus on spatial locality as a guiding principle to find a low-dimensional basis for describing high-dimensional data, but no bases or features are more spatially localized than the original image pixels. So, adaptive image combination is presented to represent a class by a combined sample. The combined sample is a linear combination of original samples in the same class. Adaptive image combination (AIC) find the best combination coefficients by minimizing the intrapersonal distance and maximizing the interpersonal distance. Experimental results show that AIC is effective.     

城市轨道交通通信集中告警系统的方案设计

现代城市轨道交通通信系统是一个复杂系统,包含多个子系统,系统设备种类多,且都有各自的网管,安装地点分散,因此有必要设置集中告警系统对整个通信系统进行有效的集中维护管理.结合集中故障告警系统在苏州轨道交通1号线的应用,说明了设置该系统的必要性.通信集中告警系统普遍采用协调方式实现.由于采用模块化设计,功能强易于扩展,已成...     

Parameter transfer of common-metric attributes in choice analysis: implications for willingness to pay

There is a growing literature that promotes the presence of a mix of compensatory and semi-compensatory processing strategies in the way that individuals evaluate packages of attributes in real or hypothetical markets, and make choices. This paper proposes a specification for the utility form in a choice model to test if, given a pair of attributes with a common-metric (e.g., components of travel time or cost), the attribute with the dominating level defines the marginal (dis)utility that is assigned to both attributes. We refer to this processing strategy as a parameter transfer rule. We use a stated choice data set, in the context of car driving individuals choosing between tolled and non-tolled routes, to estimate a mixed logit model which incorporates the presence of the parameter transfer rule and the conventional fully compensatory rule, both existing up to a probability. We find that if this parameter transfer heuristic is part of the mix, the WTP is more than 30% higher, on average, than when only a fully compensatory rule is imposed. We also contrast the parameter transfer rule with other semi-compensatory heuristics which have been investigated in other papers, and show that the finding adds further support to the accumulating evidence that a semi-compensatory attribute processing rules tend to result in higher mean WTP estimates compared to the fully compensatory attribute processing rule.     

现代造船企业实施供应链管理的策略研究

供应链管理为造船企业提供了新的管理思想与方法。本文分析了现代造船供应链的特点,根据现代造船企业自身的特点,提出了现代造船企业实施供应链管理的主要方向和途径,为现代造船企业提高管理水平提供了参考。     

泵站厂房中吊车竖向荷载下吊车梁最大内力值及作用面的计算方法

在厂房中设有吊车来起吊大构件,运行时吊车在吊车梁上移动,对梁产生的最大内力值及作用面在变化;而吊车梁等自重产生的内力值则随截面位置的不同而变化。该文推导用公式一次即能准确计算出吊车梁的最大内力值及作用位置,以便设计吊车梁。     

微机控制可控顶自动调速系统的理论与应用

微机可控顶自动调速系统是从系统工程的观点出发，将驼峰纵断面、调速设备、钩车重量等级及走行性能等进行统筹考虑和规划的。利用速度逼近法，把难行车速度曲线作为目标曲线，使中行车和易行车速度曲线向难行车速度的曲线靠拢，最大限度缩小难、易行车溜行时差，提高推峰速度。它借助于微机，采用仿真技术及模糊控制理论，通过模拟钩车的动态溜放过程，合理布置调速设备，充分提高其利用率，满足安全高效的双重要求，获得较大的投入     

KM-2524S型甲板克令吊的组合油泵一例故障分析

本文通过对该型克令吊油泵故障的逐步分析，找出了发生故障的原因，这对于安装有同类克令吊的船舶，在使用过程中解决类似问题时，会得到一定的提示和帮助。     

冶金车辆重载车轮结构强度的计算分析

本文根据冶金车辆的特点和当前计算机的硬、软件环境,论述了用有限元法计算重载车轮结构强度时计算模型及单元的选择,并通过实例实现效果良好.     

再生骨料混凝土在道路基层中的应用研究

为寻找废弃混凝土再利用的新途径,探索了废弃混凝土用于道路基层的可能性。首先将再生骨料划分为两档,调配为连续级配,然后研究了废弃混凝土作为粗骨料完全代替粗集料对混凝土强度和收缩性能的影响。研究发现:不同水胶比再生骨料混凝土的强度均可满足道路基层的要求;再生骨料混凝土的收缩应变随着粉煤灰掺量的增加先增大后减小;30%掺量粉煤灰的再生骨料混凝土不仅具有较高的强度,而且具有优良的收缩性能,可应用于重交通等级高速公路的基层。