Negative-pressure wound therapy is routinely utilized in plastic surgery for the treatment of open wounds. However, a newer system, known as closed-incision management (CIM), may minimize the likelihood of open wounds. CIM is designed for use after primary surgical skin closure. Many studies of the effects of CIM in various surgical disciplines have been published. The main features of CIM are ...

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The research work comprising genetic studies for oil, fatty acid profile, seed cotton yield and lint percentage in eight parental lines (SLH-284, CIM-446, CIM-473, CIM-496, CIM-499, CIM-506, CIM-554, CIM-707) and their F3 populations was carried out during 2011 and 2012 at The University of Agriculture, Peshawar and Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture, Peshawar Pakistan. The genetic pote...

BACKGROUND Critical illness myopathy (CIM) and polyneuropathy (CIP), alone or in combination (CIP/CIM), are frequent complications in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). There is no evidence that differentiating between CIP and CIM has any impact on patient prognosis. METHODS 1-year prospective cohort study of patients developing CIP, CIM or combined CIP and CIM during ICU stay. RESU...

The foundation of Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach is creation of models. MDA life cycle begins from Computation Independent Model (CIM) and ends with code. Object Management Group (OMG) explains various models and their relations, but it does not specify clearly how to create these models and which models to use for representation them. In this paper, we focus on CIM level. CIM is the ...

This issue marks the last edition of Clinical and Investigative Medicine under the leadership of Dr. David Bevan. Dr. Bevan has been the Editor-in-Chief of CIM for the past six years. During this time, CIM, as the official journal of the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation, underwent several major changes. First, CIM was bought from the CMA and is now independently produced. Second, CIM...

Identification of environment-specific QTL and stable QTL having consistent genetic effects across a wide range of environments is of great importance in plant breeding. Inclusive Composite Interval Mapping (ICIM) has been proposed for additive, dominant and epistatic QTL mapping in biparental populations for single environment. In this study, ICIM was extended to QTL by environment interaction...