A 28-day-old infant with D-transposition of the great arteries underwent arterial switch operation. The coronary pattern was Yacoub type A, in which coronary transfer is usually thought to be easy. However, a dominant conus branch diverged from the proximal portion of the left coronary artery (LCA). Moreover, the LCA ostium itself was near the remote commissure in sinus 1, very far from the tar...

Finding the lowest common ancestor of a given pair of nodes is a fundamental algorithmic problem. In this paper we study the lowest common ancestor(LCA) problem on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). A lowest common ancestor of two nodes a and b is a node c which is a common ancestor of a and b and no other node is both a common ancestor of a and b and a proper descendant of c. LCA on trees have be...

BACKGROUND Soft tissue defects of the lateral malleolus (LM) and Achilles tendon pose difficult reconstructive problems due to the bony prominence and limited local tissue available. The objectives were to study the anatomical landmarks of the lateral calcaneal artery (LCA) and patency of LCA in atherosclerotic patients. METHODS Part I: Thirty-four cadaveric feet were dissected to identify th...

The formation of covalently bound protein adducts with lithocholic acid (LCA) has been proposed as a possible explanation for the carcinogenicity and hepatotoxicity of LCA. However, no detailed study on the structure of the resulting protein bound-LCA formed in the liver has been reported. The aim of our study was to identify the cellular proteins in the liver of the bile duct-ligated rat that ...

Luce’s choice axiom (LCA) is a theory of individual choice behavior that has proven to be a powerful tool in the behavioral sciences for over 50 years. LCA is grounded in two fundamental properties: choice is probabilistic and the probability of choosing an option from one set of alternatives is related to the probability of choosing the same option from a different set. This entry reviews the ...