Disastrous Progression

The disastrous but preventable consequences of ICD-10.

Skin Metastases: The Visible Face of a Disastrous Unusual Finding

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Revision otoplasty: how to manage the disastrous result.

OBJECTIVE To describe how severe ear deformities after otoplasty can be corrected. METHODS The correction of creases is possible through readaptation of the cartilage edges followed by revision otoplasty using suture techniques in the reconstructed cartilage. In the case of defect formation or extreme thinning of the cartilage, an appealing auricular shape is achieved by the use of porous pol...

Growth Is Good for the Poor but Decline Is Disastrous

This paper re-examines the Dollar and Kraay (2002) result that per capita real income for the poorest quintile in a country grows equiproportionately with the rest of the economy. Results obtained here using the Dollar and Kraay data set indicate that the real per capita income of the poor rises less than proportionately when growth is positive and falls dramatically when growth is negative. Th...

The disastrous storm of 4 November 1966 on Italy

This is the first modeling reconstruction of the whole aspects (both meteorological and oceanographic) of the storm which hit Italy on 4 November 1966, producing 118 victims and widespread damages in Tuscany, at the northern Adriatic coast and in the north-eastern Italian Alps. The storm was produced by a cyclone which formed in the western Mediterranean and moved eastward towards Italy, reachi...