Dental treatment is often performed under general anesthesia or sedation when an intellectually disabled patient has a heightened fear of treatment or has difficulty cooperating. When it is impossible to control the patient due to the severity of intellectual disability, conscious sedation is not a viable option, and only deep sedation should be performed. Deep sedation is usually achieved by p...

BACKGROUND As the use of acellular dermal matrices in breast reconstruction has become more commonplace and efforts are made to improve on postoperative outcomes, the method of acellular dermal matrix (ADM) processing (aseptic versus sterile) has become a subject of interest. This article provides an updated overview of the critical aspects of ADM processing in addition to application of ADMs i...

This paper presents a method for constructing logical topology in multi-hop WDM networks hierarchically. Our logical topology can be built over WDM ring networks with only three ADMs (Add-Drop Multiplexers) and transceivers per node. We aim to realize low-cost WDMs that can be deployed for MANs and LANs. Due to well constructed hierarchical topology, both the maximum distance between two nodes ...

Macrophages have recently been characterized as having an M1 or M2 phenotype based on receptor expression, mechanism of activation and function. The effects of macrophage phenotype upon tissue remodeling following implantation of an acellular dermal matrix (ADM) is largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare the macrophage phenotype and tissue remodeling elicited by four different...

Traffic grooming, in which low-rate circuits are multiplexed onto wavelengths, with the goal of minimizing the number of add-drop multiplexers (ADMs) and wavelengths has received much research attention from the optical networking community in recent years. While previous work has considered various traffic models and network architectures, protection requirements of the circuits have not been ...

Multi-ring architectures are widely used as the design approach for survivable optical core networks, particularly when the rings that can be constructed are not constrained by geographical distances between nodes in the network. This is because traffic flows can be rapidly restored using ring protection mechanisms, and costs can be minimised using Add-Drop Multiplexers (ADMs) at the nodes for ...

We study a graph partitioning problem which arises from traffic grooming in optical networks. We wish to minimize the equipment cost in a SONET WDM ring network by minimizing the number of Add-Drop Multiplexers (ADMs) used. We consider the version introduced by Muñoz and Sau [12] where the ring is unidirectional with a grooming factor C, and we must design the network (namely, place the ADMs at...

Minimizing SONET ADM costs in single-hub SONET/WDM ring networks via traffic grooming has been discussed in a number of recent works. Recent work [12] gives the exact minimum costs of uniform traffic in both UPSR and BLSR/2 and proves that the BLSR/2 would never be more expensive than UPSR under any traffic pattern, if all wavelengths have same capacity. In this paper we consider how to groom b...

BACKGROUND Atmospheric dispersion models (ADMs) may help to assess human exposure to airborne pathogens. However, there is as yet limited quantified evidence that modelled concentrations are indeed associated to observed human incidence. METHODS We correlated human Q fever (caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii) incidence data in the Netherlands to modelled concentrations from three spati...