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Which Osteotomy for Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head and Which Patient for the Osteotomy?
Transtrochanteric curved varus osteotomy (TCVO) and transtrochanteric rotational osteotomy (TRO) are joint-preserving procedures for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. The purpose of this review is to provide up-to-date guidelines for the osteotomies. One retrospective comparison revealed that TCVO has shorter operation time, less bleeding, lower incidence of osteophyte formation, and lower rate of secondary collapse. To obtain successful results of the osteotomy, the patient should be younger than 40 years and should have a body mass index of less than 24 kg/m2. The osteotomy should be performed in early stages of femoral head osteonecrosis before marked collapse of the femoral head. The patient should have a medium-size lesion and an enough viable bone to restore the intact articular surface and subchondral bone in the weight-bearing area
Long-Term Deflection Prediction from Computer Vision-Measured Data History for High-Speed Railway Bridges
Management of the vertical long-term deflection of a high-speed railway bridge is a crucial factor to guarantee traffic safety and passenger comfort. Therefore, there have been efforts to predict the vertical deflection of a railway bridge based on physics-based models representing various influential factors to vertical deflection such as concrete creep and shrinkage. However, it is not an easy task because the vertical deflection of a railway bridge generally involves several sources of uncertainty. This paper proposes a probabilistic method that employs a Gaussian process to construct a model to predict the vertical deflection of a railway bridge based on actual vision-based measurement and temperature. To deal with the sources of uncertainty which may cause prediction errors, a Gaussian process is modeled with multiple kernels and hyperparameters. Once the hyperparameters are identified through the Gaussian process regression using training data, the proposed method provides a 95% prediction interval as well as a predictive mean about the vertical deflection of the bridge. The proposed method is applied to an arch bridge under operation for high-speed trains in South Korea. The analysis results obtained from the proposed method show good agreement with the actual measurement data on the vertical deflection of the example bridge, and the prediction results can be utilized for decision-making on railway bridge maintenance
Two Higgs doublet models for the LHC Higgs boson data at 7 and 8 TeV
Updated LHC data on the new 126 GeV boson during the 7 and 8 TeV runnings
strengthen the standard model Higgs boson interpretation further. Through the
global analysis, we investigate whether the new particle could be one
of the scalar particles in two Higgs doublet models. Four types (Type I, II, X
and Y) are comprehensively studied. Taking the recent analysis on the
spin-parity of the new boson, we consider two scenarios: the new boson is
either the light CP-even one () or the heavy CP-even one (). It is
found that both scenarios are consistent with the new data, not only in the
parameter regions near the decoupling limit but also in other regions far from
the decoupling limit. In addition, the current data are compatible with the
possibility that the light Higgs boson is hidden in the mass window of
90-100 GeV. The diphoton or channel can provide a probe of this
possibility by the enhanced signal rates.Comment: To appear in JHE
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