scholarly journals Are result-based schemes a superior approach to the conservation of High Nature Value grasslands? Evidence from Slovenia

2021 ◽  
pp. 105749
Author(s):  
Tanja Šumrada ◽  
Branko Vreš ◽  
Tatjana Čelik ◽  
Urban Šilc ◽  
Ilona Rac ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Superior Approach

scholarly journals Superior approach to the left main coronary artery for surgical angioplasty

1997 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyoyuki Eishi ◽  
Hiroaki Sasaki ◽  
Kiyoharu Nakano ◽  
Yoshio Kosakai ◽  
Fumitaka Isobe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Left Main Coronary Artery ◽  
Left Main ◽  
Superior Approach

Excellent Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes with Direct Superior Total Hip Arthroplasty with a Minimum of Two-Year Follow Up

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Sharabianlou ◽  
Prerna Arora ◽  
Derek Amanatullah
Keyword(s):  
Total Hip Arthroplasty ◽  
Functional Recovery ◽  
Hip Arthroplasty ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Harris Hip Score ◽  
Timed Up And Go ◽  
Total Hip ◽  
Radiologic Evaluation ◽  
Superior Approach

This study aims to establish the midterm safety and performance for the direct superior approach to minimally invasive surgery total hip arthroplasty (MIS-THA). We used a unicentric, single-surgeon, retrospective, consecutive case series analysis of the first 40 patients who received primary unilateral direct superior MIS-THA. Special attention was given to functional recovery by measuring Harris Hip Score (HHS) and timed-up-and-go (TUG) with a mean follow up of 2.2 ± 0.4 years. A radiologic evaluation was performed. HHS and TUG improved significantly at three months and one year (p < 0.001). All components were placed within the Lewinnek safe zone with no change position or signs of loosening at two years. With a minimum of two years of follow up, the direct superior approach appears to be safe without any obvious or consistent postoperative complications—clinically or radiographically—with excellent functional recovery. Additionally, our subgroup analysis supported no late learning curve effect.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF SELECTED MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-22
Author(s):  
Miloš Hitka ◽  
Jozef Ďurian ◽  
Silvia Lorincová ◽  
Bianka Dúbravská
Keyword(s):  
External Environment ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Household Debt ◽  
Business Managers ◽  
Psychological Burden ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Superior Approach

Motivation is considered one of the most important prerequisites for the success and effectiveness of the resulting performances. Usually, we meet only with a perspective of employee motivation from inside the company. However, the external environment, i.e. macro-environment, also influences the motivation of employees. We decided to focus on exploring how macroeconomic indicators evolution affects employee motivation. By means of the research conducted in Slovakia during the period from 2008 to 2019 on a sample of more than 30,000 respondents, we define the dependence of selected macroeconomic indicators and employee motivation. The research focuses on the analysis of average annual wage and household debt influence on the most important employees’ motivational factors. Based on our findings, we can state that macroeconomic indicators affect the importance of motivational factors in Slovakia. Especially, the average annual wage strongly influences the six motivational factors (communication at the workplace, duties and type of work, working hours, working environment, superior approach, psychological burden). The results of the research also show that the seven motivational factors (atmosphere at the workplace, good team, communication at the workplace, working hours, working environment, superior approach, psychological burden) strongly depend on the macroeconomic indicator of household debt. Therefore, when creating incentive programs, business managers in Slovakia should take into account not only the effects of the company’s microenvironment on motivation but also the effects of the macro-environment and thus macroeconomic changes in the state. The role of a manager is to keep balance between external environment influence on employee motivation and internal actions. The paper presents inspiring ideas in a field of employee motivation and the influence of external environment on motivation.

Hybrid Query and Data Qodering for Fast and Progressive Range-Aggregate Query Answering

2008 ◽  
pp. 1250-1268
Author(s):  
Cyrus Shahabi ◽  
Mehrdad Jahangiri ◽  
Dimitris Sacharidis
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Query Answering ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Multidimensional Datasets ◽  
Scientific Datasets ◽  
Aggregate Queries ◽  
Random Dataset ◽  
Aggregate Query ◽  
The Common ◽  
Superior Approach

Data analysis systems require range-aggregate query answering of large multidimensional datasets. We provide the necessary framework to build a retrieval system capable of providing fast answers with progressively increasing accuracy in support of range-aggregate queries. In addition, with error forecasting, we provide estimations on the accuracy of the generated approximate results. Our framework utilizes the wavelet transformation of query and data hypercubes. While prior work focused on the ordering of either the query or the data coefficients, we propose a class of hybrid ordering techniques that exploits both query and data wavelets in answering queries progressively. This work effectively subsumes and extends most of the current work where wavelets are used as a tool for approximate or progressive query evaluation. The results of our experimental studies show that independent of the characteristics of the dataset, the data coefficient ordering, contrary to the common belief, is the inferior approach. Hybrid ordering, on the other hand, performs best for scientific datasets that are inter-correlated. For an entirely random dataset with no inter-correlation, query ordering is the superior approach.

scholarly journals Right axillary incision: A cosmetically superior approach to repair a wide range of congenital cardiac defects

2005 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Prêtre ◽  
Alexander Kadner ◽  
Hitendu Dave ◽  
Ali Dodge-Khatami ◽  
Dominique Bettex ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Defects ◽  
Congenital Cardiac Defects ◽  
Axillary Incision ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Superior Approach

Wind System Reliability and Capacity

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Pavlak ◽  
Harry V. Winsor
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
System Reliability ◽  
Electric Power Systems ◽  
High Load ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Wind Generation ◽  
Load Carrying Capacity ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
Superior Approach

Capacity measures a system’s ability to survive stress. For example, structures are engineered in part to have the capacity to survive the worst wind loads expected over the life of the structure. Likewise wind electric power systems should have the capacity to reliably survive the worst combination of high load and low wind. A superior approach for quantifying wind’s contribution to system capacity is well known. It is to view wind as a negative load and use the Effective Load Carrying Capacity (ELCC) methodology for a given year. A frequent mistake is to average these annual ELCC estimates. A main contribution of this paper is to explain why the system design criteria should take the worst of the annual ELCC estimates over a number of years and not an average of annual ELCC estimates. Based on extreme events, wind generation contributes little to system capacity (<6.6% of wind nameplate). The empirical evidence shows that wind generation is an energy source, not a capacity resource.

The Road Less Travelled: Cavo-Tricuspid Isthmus Ablation from a Superior Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. S197
Author(s):  
D. Lancini ◽  
R. Boucher ◽  
P. Martin
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
Superior Approach

scholarly journals A cadaveric study of the three different palpation-guided techniques for glenohumeral joint injections

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 399-403
Author(s):  
Paul Borbas ◽  
Karim Eid ◽  
Eugene T Ek ◽  
Matthew Ricks ◽  
Georg Feigl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Failure Mode ◽  
Intramuscular Injection ◽  
Glenohumeral Joint ◽  
Cadaveric Study ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Superior Approach ◽  
Joint Injections ◽  
Anterior Posterior

Background It is not known whether an anterior, posterior or superior approach using the Neviaser portal is more accurate for glenohumeral joint injections. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the palpation-guided technique and compare the three different approaches. Methods Palpation-guided glenohumeral joint injections were performed in 48 shoulders (24 cadavers) by two operators. Each shoulder was injected by three different approaches with a different coloured latex solution. The three approaches included the anterior, posterior and superior methods. The accuracy and location of unsuccessful injections were assessed through dissection of the shoulders. Results Posterior injections were the most successful with an accuracy rate of 89.6%, followed by anterior injections (75%) and superior injections (54.2%). Both posterior ( p = 0.0001) and anterior injections ( p = 0.03) were statistically significantly more accurate than superior injections. The most common failure mode was an intratendinous or intramuscular injection, which occurred most frequently with a superior approach. Conclusions Use of a superior approach through the Neviaser portal for the palpation-guided technique for glenohumeral joint injections showed a statistically significant inferior accuracy when compared to both the posterior and anterior approaches and is therefore not recommended. Posterior approached injections were the most accurate.

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