Defects Recognition Algorithm Development from Visual UAV Inspections.

Aircraft maintenance plays a key role in the safety of air transport. One of its most significant procedures is the visual inspection of the aircraft skin for defects. This is mainly carried out manually and involves a high skilled human walking around the aircraft.

Immediate effects of electroacupuncture and manual acupuncture on pain, mobility and muscle strength in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To compare the immediate effects of electroacupuncture and manual acupuncture on pain, mobility and muscle strength in patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Methods: Sixty patients with knee osteoarthritis, with a pain intensity of ≥2 on the pain Numerical Rating Scale, were included. The patients were randomised into two groups: manual acupuncture and electroacupuncture.

The gender solutions Natural-Knee flex system and future directions.

The morphology of the distal femur varies. Whether or not the variability falls strictly along gender lines, a better fit to the distal femur can be obtained without intraoperative compromises by making available both a narrow and a wider medial-lateral/anterior-posterior aspect ratio. In our 1-year outcomes of the first 360 patients who received the Zimmer Gender Solutions Natural-Knee Flex System, mean flexion was 131 degrees (10 degrees better than mean flexion with the earlier Natural-Knee I and II systems), and the lateral release rate decreased to 2%.

Treatment of infected total knee arthroplasty using an articulating spacer.

Twenty-six patients with late infected total knee arthroplasties were treated by debridement and removal of components and all cement, preserving collateral ligaments. At time of debridement, an articulating spacer was fashioned to allow partial weightbearing and knee range of motion (ROM) during rehabilitation. This spacer was implanted using antibiotic-impregnated bone cement.

Microscopic analysis of autograft bone applied at the interface of porous-coated devices in human cancellous bone.

This study describes the response of human cancellous bone when autologous bone chips are added at operation to the interface between host bone and porous-coated implants. During the first operation of a staged bilateral total knee arthroplasty, seven patients consented to have paired porous-coated devices implanted into their opposite medial femoral condyle. One device of each pair had autologous bone chips applied to the porous-coating, and the other was not grafted and was a control.