Safety-Razor to Cut Thiersch Grafts

Human skin banking.

Skin autografting was first described by Reverdin in 1871 [1]. The clinical utility of allograft skin as a method for wound coverage followed shortly thereafter [2]. Girdner [3] was the first to report the use of allogeneic skin to cover a burn wound; however, it wasn’t until 5 years later that Thiersch [4] described the histologic anatomy of skin engraftment and later popularized the clinical ...

Thiersch-Duplay Principle

The Application of the Thiersch Graft to Special Areas.

Plastic Surgeon, St. Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill; London County Council; Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton; Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children, ShadweU; and Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton. My last article (Post-Graduate Journal, May, I934) confined itself to the preparation of the Thiersch graft and its application to surface areas: the present article will deal with its ap...

On the safety of Gomory cut generators

Gomory mixed-integer cuts are one of the key components in Branch-and-Cut solvers for mixed-integer linear programs. The textbook formula for generating these cuts is not used directly in open-source and commercial software that work in finite precision: Additional steps are performed to avoid the generation of invalid cuts due to the limited numerical precision of the computations. This paper ...

Occam's Razor

The Bayesian paradigm apparently only sometimes gives rise to Occam’s Razor; at other times very large models perform well. We give simple examples of both kinds of behaviour. The two views are reconciled when measuring complexity of functions, rather than of the machinery used to implement them. We analyze the complexity of functions for some linear in the parameter models that are equivalent ...