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.     

Equilibria of bilateral taxi–customer searching and meeting on networks

This paper proposes an equilibrium model to characterize the bilateral searching and meeting between customers and taxis on road networks. A taxi driver searches or waits for a customer by considering both the expected searching or waiting time cost and ride revenue, and a customer seeks a taxi ride to minimize full trip price. We suppose that the bilateral taxi–customer searching and meeting occurs anywhere in residential and commercial zones or at prescribed taxi stands, such as an airport or a railway station. We propose a meeting function to spell out the search and meeting frictions that arise endogenously as a result of the distinct spatial feature of the area and the taxi–customer moving decisions. With the proposed meeting function and the assumptions underlying taxi–customer search behaviors, the stationary competitive equilibrium achieved at fixed fare prices is determined when the demand of the customers matches the supply of taxis or there is market clearing at the prevailing searching and waiting times in every meeting location. We establish the existence of such an equilibrium by virtue of Brouwer’s fixed-point theorem and demonstrate its principal operational characteristics with a numerical example.     

小型液压挖掘机回转过程能量消耗与节能研究

为了使小型液压挖掘机在回转过程中降低能量消耗,对小型液压挖掘机在重载工况下以不同转动惯量回转时的能量消耗特性进行分析,利用Pro/E软件建立了整机的三维模型,利用AME-sim软件建立了液压系统仿真模型,通过ADAMS和AMEsim软件对模型进行联合仿真,并进行试验研究,得到小型液压挖掘机在回转过程中由转动惯量变化引起的能量消耗和系统压力变化的规律。结果表明:在重载工况下以小转动惯量回转时,采用柴油机停缸技术,可以使平均燃油消耗下降15%。     

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.     

一种高可靠、高可用集群计算平台的设计与实现

高可靠与高可用已经成为高性能计算中不可或缺的要素.文章设计并实现的H3C集群系统应用对称式热备份(Symmetry Active/Active Replication)机制提高了集群关键服务的可靠性和可用性,使集群头节点(Head Node)在失效时仍能够提供不间断的服务.在结合LAM/MPI和BLCR检查点机制的基础上开发出高可用MPI运行环境HA/MPI,有效解决了并行计算过程中计算节点(Computing Node)失效的容错难题.     

沈阳市城市快速路建设发展综述

通过阐述沈阳市快速路建设发展情况,分析了市区交通变化情况、城市快速路的规划发展思路和设计方案的演化,研究了各阶段沈阳市快速路体系的功能定位和不同时期快速路设计方案需要考虑的各类影响因素,总结了快速路工程建设经验,探索了快速路未来设计和建造的新模式.     

图说街道——感受国内外城市道路

城市道路为居民提供交通、交往、休闲、购物、运动等各种服务,是城市生活的重要场所,街道也是政府为居民提供的公共产品。评价街道是否设计得好,必定是一个综合的标准。该文认为:此综合标准需要处理好人与车、美观与适用、技术与人文等关系,并以国内外诸多道路的实景作了图解。     

超偏载检测装置运用中误报的常见原因分析

从超偏载检测装置位置、设备基础变化、车号设备故障、超偏载检测装置故障、计算机病毒影响、列车编组情况等方面，分析超偏载检测装置运用中造成误报警的原因。