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Bill Baker860 Bellagio Ct. Oak Park, California United States of America
Bill Baker CopaTV , Celebrity Web Chefs Bill Baker defrauded 10 individuals for $25,000 each. A fake investment scheme. Oak Park, California
*General Comment: I Don't know Bill Baker personally
*REBUTTAL Individual responds: Only cowards hide behind false identities
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I Don't know Bill Baker personally
AUTHOR: prasad - ()
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, October 22, 2013POSTED: Tuesday, October 22, 2013
I Don't know Bill Baker personally but am against to the comments made by the original person who wrote against Bill Baker. I wanted to mention that even Bill Baker don't know that i am writing this. I have few questions to ask the original guy who posted false allegations. When you said he cheated you 25k how can a person who took off for two years just to concentrate on his children education fool you? If you think that 25k is very important to BIll why would he take leave?
I also have a question about when he got very good name in the market in LA why would he ke keep his name at stake just for mere 25k? Do you think with just 25k can he survive whole his life ?.......he is a serial entrepreneur and name is very big thing for every entrepreneur and do you think he will keep his name at stakle just for 25k?
No one will believe your post and these kind of posts will not effect his morale for sure .
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Only cowards hide behind false identities
AUTHOR: Bill Baker - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, November 01, 2012POSTED: Thursday, November 01, 2012
My name is Bill Baker and I am the person whose reputation is being smeared and slandered by a highly unscrupulous individual that I had the misfortune to meet; his name is Fernando Escovar and he operates as www.fotographer.tv and www.realityshowmag.com. In addition to the filing herein, he also posted several complaints under assumed names on www.scambook.com, one of which for $250K has been taken down by the investigation team at Scambook. I am working to ensure the rest are also removed.
Suffice it to say, web sites such as this one make it all too easy to destroy reputations because they operate in the digital domain and a simple Google search with few key words entered into the complaint (e.g.: Bill Baker, CopaTV), can generate the desired result.
Making false statements is easy, I challenge the individual involved to create the documents and validate any wrongdoing on my part or the part of any company I am or have been associated with. Only cowards hide behind false identities. My contact info is listed below, lets see if the complainer has the same integrity and list his contact info. Best.
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Records retention schedules are lists of records by name or type that authorize the disposition of records. The records schedules used by Berkeley Lab specify when records will be destroyed, when they should be transferred from active office areas to the National Archives and Records Administration's (NARA's) Pacific Region (San Francisco) Records Services Facility in San Bruno, and, in some cases, direct that certain historically valuable records be retained permanently by NARA. Records schedules are approved by NARA.
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Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Van Praag, Mirjam (Amsterdam, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their team's performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous variation in - otherwise random - team composition by assigning students to teams based on their measured cognitive abilities (Raven test). Each team performs a variety of tasks, often involving complex decision making. The key result of the experiment is that the performance of business teams first increases and then decreases with ability dispersion. We seek to understand this finding by developing a model in which team members of different ability levels form sub-teams with other team members with similar ability levels to specialize in different productive tasks. Diversity spreads production over different tasks in order to escape diminishing marginal returns under specialization. The model comes with a boundary condition: our experimental finding is most likely to emerge in settings where different tasks exhibit moderate differences in their productive contributions to total output. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8963
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A Field ExperimentHoogendoorn, Sander; Van Praag, Mirjam (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is cultural back- ground. We measure the impact of cultural diversity on the performance of business teams using a eld experiment. Companies are set up by teams of undergraduate students in business studies in realistic though similar circumstances. We vary the cultural composition of otherwise randomly composed teams in a multi-cultural stu- dent population. Our data indicate that a moderate level of cultural diversity has no e ect on team performance in terms of business outcomes (sales, pro ts and pro ts per share). However, if at least the majority of team members is culturally diverse then more cultural diversity seems to a ect the performance of teams positively. Our data suggest that this might be related to the more diverse pool of relevant knowledge facilitating (mutual) learning within culturally diverse teams. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9261
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Origins, Key Tenets and Research GapsFoss, Nicolai J.; Lyngsie, Jacob (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The field of strategic entrepreneurship is a fairly recent one. Its central idea is that opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking—the former the central subject of the entrepreneurship field, the latter the central subject of the strategic management field— are processes that need to be considered jointly. The purpose of this brief chapter is to explain the emergence of SE theory field in terms of a response to research gaps in the neighboring fields of entrepreneurship and strategic management; describe the main tenets of SE theory; discuss its relations to neighboring fields; and finally describe some research gaps in extant theory, mainly focusing on the need to provide clear microfoundations for SE theory and link it to organizational design theory. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8249
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How Headquarters Facilitate Business Model Innovation at the Subsidiary LevelCao, Yangfeng; Ping Li, Peter; Skat-Rørdam, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Primarily due to the large gaps in economic and institutional contexts between the developed and emerging markets, business model innovation (BMI) at the subsidiary level plays an important role for the success of small and mediumsized firms (SMEs) from the developed markets operating in the emerging markets as top-down venture. While some studies claim that the direct involvement of headquarters (HQ) of SMEs in the activities of their subsidiaries is essential, surprisingly little is known about how HQ specifically facilitates BMI at the subsidiary level, especially in the context of top-down venture. Adopting the method of comparative and longitudinal case study, we tracked the BMI process of six SMEs from Denmark operating in China. The emergent framework indicates that entrepreneurial aspiration and flexibility at the HQ level 2 Asia Research Centre, CBS, Copenhagen Discussion Paper 2013-42 are two primary facilitators of BMI at the subsidiary level via the mechanisms of commitment and cooperation. We also found that BMI performance would influence the two facilitators in a feedback loop. Hence, we can contribute to the literatures on international entrepreneurship and strategic entrepreneurship by integrating the two previously separated research streams via their shared theme of accelerated learning. In particular, this study helps solve the puzzle concerning fast and successful international venture. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8679
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Dahl, Michael; Van Praag, Mirjam; Thompson, Peter (, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We study possible motivations for co-entrepenurial couples to start up a joint firm, using a sample of 1,069 Danish couples that established a joint enterprise between 2001 and 2010. We compare their pre-entry characteristics, firm performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find evidence that couples often establish a business together because one spouse ? most commonly the female ? has limited outside opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in co-entrepreneurial firms, both during the life of the business and post-dissolution. The start-up of co-entrepreneurial firms seems therefore a sound in-vestment in the human capital of both spouses as well as in the reduction of income inequality in the household. We find no evidence of non-pecuniary benefits or costs of co-entrepreneurship URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8961
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Foss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G.; Bylund, Per L. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The study of entrepreneurship and the study of economic organizing lack contact. In fact, the modern theory of the firm virtually ignores entrepreneurship, while the literature on entrepreneurship often sees little value in the economic theory of the firm. In contrast, we argue in this chapter that entrepreneurship theory and the theory of the firm can be usefully integrated, and that doing so would improve both bodies of theory. Adding the entrepreneur to the theory of the firm provides a dynamic view that the overly static analysis of firm organizing cannot support. Moreover, adding the firm to the study of the entrepreneur provides important clues to how we can understand entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8250
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Report from a workshop 6-8 September 2010Schaumburg-Müller, Henrik; Jeppesen, Søren; Langevang, Thilde (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This working paper is a report from the workshop on Entrepreneurship Development arranged by the Centre for Business and Development Studies at CBS and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 2010. The objective of the workshop was to use the participants' joint knowledge and experiences to discuss and provide conclusions on what role entrepreneurship development has played and can play to stimulate growth and employment in Africa. Entrepreneurship development is understood as the promotion and development of activities and processes that foster and support productive entrepreneurship in the society. The workshop should provide inputs to how entrepreneurship in Africa can be supported and be used in the development and implementation of the "Growth and Employment" priority of the new Danish strategy for development cooperation. The workshop had twenty participants with long standing insight to the challenges of entrepreneurship development and employment growth in Africa from international organizations, development cooperation partners, universities and private enterprises and organizations. The report contains the key issues discussed at the workshop and ends with conclusions and recommendations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8208
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Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This chapter discusses entrepreneurship in the context of the RBV. What does the RBV have to say that the study of entrepreneurship may usefully draw on? And, conversely, how can entrepreneurship research further the RBV? I begin by sketching the RBV. I then discuss the relation between the RBV and entrepreneurship research, before I characterize a new research stream that has emerged over the last decade or so in the intersection of the RBV and entrepreneurship research, namely "strategic entrepreneurship." URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8251
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Foss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G. (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We briefly survey Hayek's work and argue for its increasing relevance for organizational scholars. Hayek's work inspired aspects of the transaction cost approach to the firm as well as knowledge management and knowledge-based view of the firm. But Hayek is usually seen within organizational scholarship as a narrow, technical economist. We hope to change that perception here by pointing to his work on rules, evolution, entrepreneurship and other aspects of his wide-ranging oeuvre with substantive implications for organizational theory. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8655
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Cao, Yangfeng (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Business model innovation plays a very important role in developing competitive advantage when multinational small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from developed country enter into emerging markets because of the large contextual distances or gaps between the emerging and developed economies. Many prior researches have shown that the foreign subsidiaries play important role in shaping the overall strategy of the parent company. However, little is known about how subsidiary specifically facilitates business model innovation (BMI) in emerging markets. Adopting the method of comparative and longitudinal case study, we tracked the BMI processes of four SMEs from Denmark operating in China. Using resource-based view (RBV), we develop one theoretical framework which indicates that initiative-taking and improvisational capability of subsidiary are the two primary facilitators of business model innovation in emerging markets. We find that high initiative-taking and strong improvisational capability can accelerate the business model innovation. Our research contributes to the literatures on international and strategic entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8814
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The Value of Coworker Mobility in Pushed and Pulled-driven StartupsRocha, Vera; Carneiro, Anabela; Varum, Celeste (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: By combining the insights from the widespread research on entrepreneurial spin-offs and from the emerging literature on hiring choices in startups, we investigate the role of coworker mobility in pushed and pulled spin-offs survival. We address two main gaps identi ed in prior research: the relative inattention paid to other human resources beyond the founder, and the hetero-geneous context where employee startups may be established. We use a rich matched employer-employee dataset for Portugal, and estimate a multi-stage model addressing the issues of self-selection in entrepreneurship and endogeneity in recruitment choices. We find that spin-offs hiring coworkers from the parent fi rm survive longer. The survival bonus resulting from coworker mobility is higher in pushed-driven startups. This work has important implications for broader theories on the role of labor mobility in organizational outcomes of arrival fi rms, and also for developing theories on labor markets for entrepreneurship. It also constitutes an important step towards unpacking the mechanisms through which mobile human capital affects the performance of receiving firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9307
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Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship and Public PolicyBorrás, Susana (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Organisations are crucial elements in an innovation system. Yet, their role is so ubiquitous that it is difficult to grasp and to examine from the perspective of public policy. Besides, links between the literature at firm and system levels on the one hand, and public policy and governance studies on the other, are still scarce. The purpose of this paper is to define the conceptual background of innovation policy in relation to the role of organisations in general, and entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in particular. In so doing, this paper aims at making three contributions. Firstly, it distinguishes between different types of organisations in the innovation system, a crucial topic in understanding innovation dynamics and blurring borders. Secondly, it identifies the organisation-related bottlenecks in the innovation system, and examines the policy instruments to solve them. Thirdly, it discusses the limits of public policy and suggests introducing a wider governance approach. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9312
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Pursuing a Variety of Leads During a Long Transition
Steve McConaughey was the director of marketing for the service division of Siemens Healthcare, until his position was eliminated in November 2008 after five years with the company. Previously, Mr. McConaughey, 50, worked for three software and networking startup companies in Silicon Valley and North Carolina. He earned an M.B.A. from University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business in 1990. He lives with his wife and son in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
One of the most maddening yet exhilarating aspects of job hunting is not knowing where the paths I follow will lead. The maddening part is that so many paths lead to dead ends. And the exhilarating part is that some paths lead to totally unexpected and previously unexplored opportunities. Like the seeds that my parents planted on their Nebraska farm each spring, believing that they would have a good wheat crop by the end of summer, I have to believe that the seeds I'm planting, through networking, will grow into the next exciting and fulfilling career opportunity.
After I was laid off, one of my first calls was to a friend with whom I had worked at a previous company. As part of my networking outreach, I wanted to let him know that I was looking for a new opportunity. Since that first call about a year ago, his company was acquired and he left for another startup. Yet just last week, I received a call from the chief technical officer of my friend's old company about a marketing opportunity there. It's amazing to see that a seed that was planted over a year ago may now bear fruit.
My last blog post provided another seed by reconnecting me with a friend from high school. We graduated together more than 30 years ago from a high school in Rapid City, South Dakota. She got in touch with me from California after reading my previous post. She generously offered her LinkedIn network as a resource. Shortly after her initial email to me, she sent me a job description for a C-level position at a company just 20 minutes from my home. One of the company's vice presidents was a former employee of hers. A single seed, magnified by the power of the Internet and social networking, connected me with a job opportunity via a friend from my teen years who lives 3,000 miles away. Exhilarating!
Another seed sowed by this blog resulted in a phone called I received two weeks ago from a reporter for the Japanese newspaper. The reporter was working on a story about professionals out of work in the U.S. He flew from his base in Washington, D.C. to meet me in New York, where I was meeting with a college friend about business opportunities, and interviewed me for over an hour.
It was clear during the interview that it was unheard of in the Japanese culture for someone with my education and work experience to be unemployed. It was fascinating to compare his reality with the one that I and countless others with excellent educations and strong work experience face each day. My story and photograph will soon appear in a Japanese newspaper delivered to 11 million households and businesses. I am excited to see how this seed will blossom.
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For the last few years Formula One development has been focused on refining a long-standing baseline design, delivering diminishing returns as teams honed in on very similar concepts.
The biggest gains were found in successful manipulation of airflow around the diffuser to increase rear-end downforce along with some innovative but controversial material approaches to flexing bodywork. But even then, finding a tenth of a second was hard.
In 2014 some of those old opportunities – in particular blown diffusers - have closed but many new ones are likely to open up.
New regulations mean a fresh page, and it is here where the benefit of top innovative designers will make all the difference.
The rulebook confines designers in certain areas, and can be very restrictive, but in this period of evolution there is still much more opportunity to think differently to others and find openings that rivals may not have thought of.
Which means visually, this year's cars could look very different.
One of the biggest changes at the front is the front wing, which has been reduced by 75mm on each side – a small but significant change.
In recent years, a lot of work has been done on the end plates and outboard flaps on the front wing, with the aim of steering airflow around the outside of the front wheel and quickly turning it back in to fill the hole of air behind the tyre.
This creates two benefits – delivering clean airflow to the underbody and reducing some of the drag caused by the front wheels.
Now this area of the wing will be much further inboard, right in front of the wheel rather than on its outer edge, and that will make it much harder to steer the airflow cleanly around it.
This, therefore, could well be one of the key areas of early aggressive concept development – although teams could well hide their initial solutions until the opening race.
The other big change at the front is on car noses, which are likely to look a bit ridiculous due to a lack of foresight in the rules.
The nose shape is determined by a reference plane at the end of the front chassis, the definition of the front crash structure and a new reference plane at the tip of the nose, which demands bodywork to be located much lower than it was last year.
So far, predictions suggest teams will keep the front chassis high, scooping out the underside and going right up to the maximum permitted height on top. This will go right to the end of the crash structure, but then to meet the regulations they will have to create a narrow drooping nose to the top. If teams do go this way, the cars are going to look rather odd.
Further back, the sidepods will need to become a little wider due to larger crash structure requirements as well as the additional turbo intercooler and battery cooling on top of traditional oil and water radiators.
Any increase in frontal area, however, comes at the cost of additional drag so teams will try to squeeze the sidepods, and therefore cooling, down to the limit. Some big gains could be made by getting this right but it's a very delicate balance that could also go very wrong – witness Red Bull's struggles with KERS due to overheating.
At the rear, the beam wing, which sat just above the gearbox, is now banned – and although it appears to be another minor amend, it will make a big difference.
The beam wing created a slotted wing effect between its lower surface and the top of the diffuser, driving air upwards and delivering a resultant downward force at the rear of the car. It also created an air pressure 'hole' to help suck air through the diffuser and make it work even harder to deliver downforce.
All that opportunity will now be gone, and so too will the ability to steer exhaust flow down to the diffuser, with the rules requiring a single exhaust that must exit in a very specific place in the centre of the car, high above the rear wheels.
That will have a big impact for now – but the teams soon got round the FIA's previous plan to stop this (the positioning of exhausts in the sidepods pointing upwards) by using the Coanda effect so it will be interesting to see if any clever designer comes up with a concept to get round the rules once again.
One other change at the rear end is a more effective DRS, which will open 15mm wider than previously in a bid to counteract the loss of KERS overtaking boost now the delivery of electric power is drip-fed rather than on the push of a button.
Finally, drivers will also have to get used to an eight-speed gearbox – the first time ever in F1 – and teams will have to choose their gear ratios at the start and use the same one all year rather than having 30 and selecting seven at each race. That will be a major restriction and dramatically reduces the set-up options available to a driver.
But all of this gives a great opportunity for the design office.
Since the last major rule change, there a new wave of designers has made their way up the ladder. Names like James Allison and Ben Agathangelou (Ferrari), Matt Morris (McLaren), Mike Elliot (Mercedes) and Nick Chester (Lotus) – and these are just a few – are now in key positions but so far have only had limited opportunity to truly show their talents.
The development and growth of new aerodynamic concepts often offers the potential for greatest gains – and the complexities of this 'black art' mean the solutions are not always the same for different cars.
Resources are, of course, vital for iterative gain, which is why the top teams are likely to rise to the top once again. But one man – be it a good leader or a clever member of an engineering team - can make a major difference in a situation like this.
Red Bull technical boss Adrian Newey is renowned for his ability to benefit from regulation changes – but he's not yet been up against some of the younger engineers with this kind of change before.
So if there is any moment that the next Newey will emerge, this is it.
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I really don't understand why Gemma Arterton isn't a bigger star over here in the US. I mean, she's busty, she's British, she's hot, what more do you people need? But luckily, I think I might have finally figured it out. She just needs to pick better photo-ops. See, here she is at some lame Tiffany Christmas event in London, when she should really be at a beach in Miami in a tiny bikini. But identifying the problem's only the first step. The rest is up to Gemma.
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Former Adviser to Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson Joins e.Republic
Julia Burrows, a former city official who led sustainability initiatives for Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson, has joined e.Republic, publisher of Governing and Government Technology.
Burrows will lead e.Republic's Washington, D.C.-based Governing Institute. The three-year-old Institute focuses on improving state and local government performance and strengthening public-sector innovation, leadership and citizen engagement.
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Besides directing the Governing Institute's research and advisory operations, Burrows will continue to build out the Institute's Senior Fellows network of former government officials and help launch and sustain several initiatives, including:
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MAASH Technique for Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Capsular Work
Dislocation and leg length discrepancy are major complications following total hip arthroplasty (THA). Many surgical approaches for THA have been described, but none suggest a capsular incision that assures good exposure while maintaining adequate capsule integrity in closure.
Modified anterolateral approach for stable hip (MAASH) is a modification of the classical Hardinge approach, but specifically preserves the anterior iliofemoral lateral ligament and pubofemoral ligament excising the "weak area" of the capsule, in the so called "internervous safe zone" and introducing the "box concept" for the anterior approach to the hip. This is the main difference of the MAASH approach. This technique can be used as a standard for all THA standard models, but we introduce new devices to make it easier.
From November 2007 to May 2012, data were collected for this observational retrospective consecutive case study. We report the results of 100 THA cases corresponding to the development curve of this new concept in THA technique.
MAASH technique offers to hip surgeons, a reliable and reproducible THA anterolateral technique assuring accurate reconstruction of leg length and a low rate of dislocation. Only one dislocation and six major complications are reported, but most of them occurred at the early stages of technique development.
MAASH technique proposes a novel concept on working with the anterior capsule of the hip for the anterolateral approach in total hip arthroplasty, as well as for hemiarthroplasty in the elderly population with high dislocation risk factors. MAASH offers maximal stability and the ability to restore leg length accurately.
Keywordship arthroplastyhip approachanterior hip capsuleTHA stabilityleg length discrepancyhip capsule anatomy
The optimal choice of surgical approach for total hip arthroplasty (THA) in the adult population is still a subject for debate. There is no sufficient data to affirm whether one surgical procedure is better than another [13]. Many approaches for THA are described. The posterior [20], posterior mini-incision [31], lateral transtrochanteric approach [4], direct lateral approach [10], anterolateral approach [29], and anterior approach [27] are among those procedures, but many other modifications have been reported in the literature. Surgeon preference and orthopedic "schools" have influenced the current procedures for THA.
Complications following THA include dislocation, leg length limb discrepancy, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and infection. The incidence of these major complications is low [6], but for patients with high expectations, any complication can be devastating. Complications also result in problematic economical impact [19] and often result in malpractice litigation.
The modified anterolateral approach for stable hip (MAASH) is a modification of the classical Hardinge approach that we have been developing since November 2007. We designed these modifications in order to eliminate the occurrence of dislocation [31], improving our ability to restore leg length accurately and optimizing the acetabular cup position. Our aims in this report are primarily to describe a surgical technique that provides specific stability for the primary THA while accurately re-establishing exact leg length. Secondly, we have assessed our learning curve in the development of the technique analyzing surgical timing, accuracy of cup orientation, and complication rates.
Surgical Technique
MAASH technique is not indicated in those cases where a lengthening of the lower limb is expected such in developmental dysplasia (Crowe III or IV [5]) or for most revision arthroplasties. The main indications for this technique include THA for osteoarthritis, avascular necrosis, childhood diseases resulting in degenerative joint disease but minimal deformity, lesser degree dysplasia (Crowe I or II) [5], and hip fractures.
The patient is placed in the lateral decubitus position. Skin incision is placed along the midline of the greater trochanter in a length of 90 mm from proximal to distal.
Once the anterior hip capsule is exposed, the middle third (subdividing the capsule in thirds) is excised as a rectangle-shaped piece of tissue of 10 mm along the femoral neck axis, which corresponds to the internervous and weak area of the anterior hip capsule (Fig. 1a–c).
Placing a pair of "66 retractors" (Exactech Inc., Florida, USA) and using two Steinman pins placed in superior acetabulum rim, at 5 and 7 o'clock, allow a circumferential exposure of the acetabulum (Fig. 4). If it is difficult to place the retractors, the surgeon should check the femoral neck osteotomy because it maybe too long or not properly angled. Once the acetabular cartilage is removed and the bone is ready to receive the THA cup, we incise the transverse acetabular ligament to widen the access for the cup and then impact the acetabulum cup in place. On average, we advocate for 40°±5° of abduction angle and 0° to 10° of anteversion [15]. Screw fixation may be added if necessary.
Postoperative rehabilitation plan following MAASH THA is programmed as follows: 6 h after the procedure, thromboprophylaxis with low-molecular-weight heparin is started and maintained during 30 days. The patient is free to move the limb. Full weight bearing and walking-assisted program starts 12 h after the surgery, and it is finished 72 h with training to climb up and down stairs. We called this period, "THA weekend" because we operate on Friday and the patient is discharged on Monday afternoon. A home physical therapy program for 4 weeks is carried out, and patients can recover full activity, on average at 8 weeks.
Patients and Methods
From 6th November 2007 to 25th may 2012, we performed at our institution 100 cases of anterior approach and THA. We use the data of these 100 cases to make our statistical analysis.
Of those 100 cases (94 patients and 6 cases double THA), 51 were women, mean age of 70.4 years old (50–82), and 49 were men, mean age of 63.6 years old (40–82). Twelve cases underwent THA due to hip fracture, and 88 patients were referred from the National Health System for osteoarthritis of the hip. This study is an observational transverse retrospective consecutive case study. Six nonspecific hip surgeons of the orthopedic and traumatology department of our public hospital and the chief of the Human Anatomy Department at University were involved in this project.
THA for primary hip osteoarthritis
Secondary hip osteoarthritis (avascular necrosis, some childhood diseases, low degree dysplasia (Crowe I or II) [5])
Hip fractures.
Stage I. Starting point: we proceeded with the Hardinge approach as itself (November 2007–November 2008), 28 cases
Stage II. Development of the "45 rule" (December 2008–October 2010), 32 cases
Stage III. Introduced the "box concept" as a capsular work: MAASH approach itself (November 2010–February 2012), 31 cases
Stage IV. Mammoth tusk retractor was developed (March 2012–May 2012), nine cases.
For the statistical analysis, chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were used to test for rate differences in different groups (SPSS, IBM v20, evaluation version).
MAASH technique is, in summary, a "capsular work" for anterior THA. Our aims in describing this new concept for the anterior approach were to maintain those main ligamentous structures to allow keeping the intrinsic stability of the capsule and giving the exact leg length to the operated limb, following a primary total hip arthroplasty [9].
We had one case of dislocation (1%) due to wrong positioning of the cup at 55.3° of inclination. That case was carried out on the early second stage of MAASH development and was replaced. Risk factors for THA instability are surgical approach, capsular repair, soft tissue tension, component malpositioning, femoral head size, impingement, and surgeon experience [30], and a large economical burden following an unstable THA is about $74 million annually [18]. We agree with the results reported in many papers in the literature that converge around 1% rate in anterior approach THA dislocation [8].
Other authors report dislocation rates of 2.18% for anterolateral approach [24].
MAASH technique does not excise the entire anterior capsule in order to preserve enough ligament elements (LIFL and PFL) keeping the capsule intrinsic stability following "the box concept" (Fig. 2a, b). We do not check soft-tissue tension to choose the femoral head insert because the tension comes from the capsule ligament remnants. Instead of testing the regular head trials, we follow the equator rule. We assess the prosthetic femoral head provisional implant relative to the superior acetabular rim, and if the center (equator line) of the head trial is in line with the acetabular cup rim [21], this is the right size of the definitive prosthesis head implant (Fig. 7b). We perform the "equator rule" since May 2011 with excellent results of leg length impairment, close to 2 mm on average. We strongly recommend this maneuver because MAASH technique is extremely stable, and it is very difficult to dislocate when THA components are assembled. Surprisingly from the beginning, our results in terms of leg length discrepancy were good on average. We can accept <6 mm of lengthening [11], but we observed that with MAASH technique, the average from the first stage was 4.48 mm and at the last 2.37 mm, close to the anatomical restoration [12]. By drawing the ischiatic line through both lesser trochanter, we measured the leg limb impairment using the IMPAX® (Agfa-Gevaert Group) computer program. No X-ray in surgical theatre [11] is needed to assure the right leg length.
There are several modifications of the Hardinge approach [3, 7, 16, 18, 22, 26], variations of the classical posterior approaches even minimally invasive surgery, and direct anterior approaches [1] for THA, but a specific capsular area excision is described by the MAASH approach. According to Kampa et al. [14], we found that our capsular excision respects the internervous safe zone preserving the proprioceptive and nociceptive structures, and this fact is the main protection against dislocation. Ligaments of the capsule can be shortened, as it occurs in extension plus rotations of the lower limb as a "sandwich effect," but not enlarged. Preserving the maximal anterior capsule ligament but excising the MIFL along the weak area tissue of the anterior hip capsule allows surgeons accessing the hip joint, keeping the THA stability due to capsular and soft tissue balancing and assuring an accurate length of the operated limb. This is "the box concept," which is the main contribution to the THA surgery that MAASH has done. It is not able to perform the "box concept" on the posterior capsule because there does not exist a soft spot and the disposition of the ligament fibers is oblique. We think that this fact should drive in a posterior instability of the capsule.
We described four stages concerning the development of this work. The first and the second stages are related to the transition of the classical Hardinge approach to the MAASH. Therefore, the procedure time, complications, and poor accuracy at placing the acetabulum cup mainly occurred at that time. Later on, we improved our results favored by the modification in our THA equipment hardware and the more experience in the approach that we achieved. We tried to place acetabulum cup at 40°±5° of abduction angle and 0–10° of cup anteversion. Analyzing our results throughout MAASH development, we reduced the abduction angle from 51.9° to 35.5° and the anteversion of the cup from more than 25° to close to 0° (Figs. 13 and 14). Wearing rates of the acetabular cups seem to be less in <40° of abduction angle, and this is important to reduce the reoperation index in THA [28]. From the second stage to the fourth, we have decreased our complication rate to zero [25]. Six major complications were identified: one THA dislocation, one acetabular cup loosening, two deep infection (Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus Epidermidis), one obturator nerve palsy and a deep vein thrombosis. Among the minor complications, 12 cases underwent transfusion of red blood cells due to postoperative anemia, two great trochanter, and one calcar fracture. A series in the literature related to anterior approach for THA reported 16% of postoperative anemia [1]. It is statistically proved in our study (p = 0.012) when surgery time exceeded 100 min, and it is doubled if surgery goes beyond 120 min (Fig. 12)
Although we have modified some retractors and designed the "mammoth tusk retractor" (Exactech Inc., Florida, USA), any hip prosthesis system can be used with MAASH technique but always being conscious that it could be difficult to reduce and assemble the THA components because of the "great stability".
Several lacks and weaknesses in this study can be found. This is an observational retrospective consecutive case study without case control. Instead of this, we compared the results with the current literature. In this study, we present this new anterior approach for the hip, analyzing the stability, leg length impairment, and complications following a THA. We do not report patient satisfaction forms or scores because this would be an issue to treat in another study, which is currently in development.
In conclusion, the MAASH technique is a modified anterior capsular approach for the anterolateral approach in primary total hip arthroplasty. It is also an excellent technique for hemiarthroplasty in the elderly population with high dislocation risk factors. Ligaments of the capsule are incised but not elongated, preserving the anterior hip capsule stability. With the MAASH technique, we achieve maximal stability and leg limb length close to anatomical restoration. We excise the weak area of the anterior hip capsule, preserving the lateral iliofemoral and pubofemoral ligaments and keeping intact the intrinsic stability of the capsule related to the "box concept."
Conflict of Interest:
Albert Broch, MD, is a paid consultant for Exactech Inc. FL, USA, outside the work. Antoni Salvador, MD, is a paid consultant for Exactech, FL, USA, outside the work. Felipe G. Delgado, MD, is a paid consultant for Exactech, FL, USA, outside the work. Francisco Reina, MD, PhD; David Torras, MD; Lluís Ximeno, MD, PhD; and Francesc García, MD, have declared that they have no conflict of interest.
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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5).
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|p-Wave Cold Collisions in an Optical Lattice Clock
|September 02, 2011
|State-of-the-art optical clocks with neutral atoms employ an optical lattice to tightly confine the atoms, enabling high-resolution spectroscopy and the potential for high-accuracy timekeeping. Interrogating many atoms simultaneously facilitates high measurement precision, but also yields high atomic density and the potential for cold collisions. To suppress these atom-atom interactions, the use of ultracold, spin-polarized fermions was proposed to exploit the Fermi suppression of s-wave collisions while freezing out higher-wave contributions. However, small collision shifts have been measured in Sr and Yb. For Sr, the shifts were attributed to s-wave interactions enabled by excitation inhomogeneity. Here, we report definitive experimental evidence and a quantitative theoretical treatment of p-wave collisions in Yb. We also demonstrate a novel suppression of the collisional frequency shift utilizing strong interactions in a two-dimensional optical lattice. Understanding these interactions and dynamics for two-valence-electron atoms is fundamental for the development of quantum information and computation protocols and simulation of condensed matter many-body Hamiltonians.
|Nature Physics
|pp. 103902-1 - 103902-5
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