There have been sparse reports in literature of avulsion and degloving injuries of individual areas of face like the nose, eyelids, ear and even mandible. Hemi-facial degloving is extremely rare. We present a case of post-assault degloving of the nose, part of forehead with anterior wall of frontal sinus, entire upper and lower eyelids and the cheek. Proper planning and staging of the surgical ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hand warming and face warming, combined with inhalation of heated air, are reported to suppress shivering. However, hand or face temperature contributes only a few percent to control of shivering. Thus, it seems unlikely that manipulating hand or facial skin temperature alone would be sufficient to permit induction of therapeutic hypothermia. We tested the hypothesis that...

We develop a pairwise classification framework for face recognition, in which a C class face recognition problem is divided into a set of C(C 1)=2 two class problems. Such a problem decomposition not only leads to a set of simpler classification problems to be solved, thereby increasing overall classification accuracy, but also provides a framework for independent feature selection for each pai...

Abstract Regarding deep-ultraviolet optical device applications, face-to-face annealed sputter-deposited AlN (FFA Sp-AlN) is a promising alternative to the conventional metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE)-prepared templates on sapphire substrates. However, FFA Sp-AlN tends exhibit AlGaN growth-related hillock generation and surface morphology deterioration. In this study, we optimized sput...

Thermal oxidation process of silicon carbide (SiC) has been studied by performing in-situ spectroscopic ellipsometry. In our previous work, we, for the first time, found that the growth rates of SiC(0001̄) C-face at oxidation thicknesses less than around 20 nm are much higher than those given by the Deal-Grove (D-G) model. In this report, we show that such a growth rate enhancement occurs also i...

Introduction. Let C be a finite polyhedral complex, i.e., a finite nonempty collection of convex polytopes in R such that (i) when P,Q E C then P flQ is a face of both and (ii) if P E C and Q is a face of P then Q EC. Let fi = fa(C) be the number of i-dimensional members of C, i > 0, called the iih face number. The discovery that the numbers fi are governed by interesting relations is due to Eu...