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.     

东孔兑隧道砂质黄土地段施工技术

结合呼准铁路增建二线东孔兑隧道，分析了砂质黄土隧道特殊地段的地质现象，通过工程实践提出施工方案，为同类隧道工程施工提供技术参考。     

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。     

基于性能演变的水性环氧沥青开普封层施工方法优化

为进一步提升水性环氧沥青开普封层使用品质，针对水性环氧沥青开普封层施工现存问题，借助有机玻璃界面状态图像观测与层间剪切试验，研究了不同固化状态下碎石封层黏结性能，提出了水性环氧沥青碎石封层两阶段分步式压实方法；系统分析了微表处摊铺时机对碎石封层沥青-碎石黏附与层间黏结性能的影响程度，探究了微表处开放交通时间与交通荷载对开普封层结构强度与表面功能的影响规律，确定了水性环氧沥青微表处最佳摊铺时机与开放交通条件；最终优化了水性环氧沥青开普封层施工方法，推荐了最佳施工参数与时机。结果表明：有机玻璃界面状态图像观测方法可快速、准确评价水性环氧沥青碎石封层的黏结防水状态，其结果与宏观试验一致。两阶段分步式压实方法能够有效提高水性环氧沥青开普封层层间黏结性能，增幅达14.29%以上，具体流程为：碎石封层摊铺后，立即采用前期轻微压实工艺进行碾压1次，待碎石封层养生至表干与实干之间时，采用后期标准压实工艺再碾压1次。基于碎石封层性能演变规律，可得微表处最佳摊铺时机为：碎石封层处于表干与实干状态之间。基于开普封层性能演变规律及交通荷载影响，可得最佳开放交通条件为：微表处摊铺后常温（25℃）持续养生1~1.5 h，适度开放交通，约2 h后完全开放。研究结果可为水性环氧沥青开普封层品质管控提供科学依据与理论支持。     

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.