BACKGROUND Axillary lymphadenectomy or sentinel biopsy is integral part of breast cancer treatment, yet seroma formation occurs in 15-85% of cases. Among methods employed to reduce seroma magnitude and duration, fibrin glue has been proposed in numerous studies with controversial results. METHODS Eighty patients underwent quadrantectomy or mastectomy with level I/II axillary lymphadenectomy; ...

Anaphora and resumption, phenomena which intuitively seem to challenge resource sensitivity, have been argued to support its role in Glue. The resource deletion treatment of resumption in LFG Glue presented by Asudeh (2004) was designed to work together with the Glue resource duplication treatment of anaphora (Dalrymple et al., 1999). However, as ‘resumptive pronouns’ are mere pronouns, the cho...

We recently described the novel management of postpneumonectomy empyema with bronchopleural fistula using bronchoscopic glue injection [3, 4]. Cyanoacrylate glue is mixed with lipiodol for endobronchial injections into the submucosal layer of the proximal end of the bronchopleural fistula, raising the mucosa and thereby reducing the diameter of the fistula. The success rate of bronchoscopic clo...

OBJECTIVE Adhesives are useful supplements to seal distal coronary anastomoses, particularly in patients who receive less-invasive coupling techniques. Information regarding long-term structural effects after application, however, is limited. The purpose of this large animal study was to examine the effects of 3 different commercially available surgical adhesives. METHODS Twelve end-to-side a...

Artificial particulate systems such as lipid vesicles are found in a variety of biomedical applications such as drug delivery and targeting. More versatile layers of control would be added if liposomes could be glued together on demand while stabilized against fusion. Here, we present a two-component molecular glue composed of a protein and calcium ions, with each component specialized for fast...

The problem of legacy systems collaboration is being solved. Particularly we look at the collaboration as workflow in a distributed and heterogeneous environment. Attention is paid to the description of semantics for workflow process definition languages. There are many solutions how semantics can be decomposed into logical fragments, but the problem of obtaining reusable components that are ea...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Suture closure and fibrin glue placement have been advocated as alternatives to healing by secondary intention. The aim of this study was to examine the tensile strength of these microflap closure techniques. STUDY DESIGN Basic research. METHODS Three pairs of excised bovine true vocal folds underwent microflap creation and closure by either single 6-0 polyglactin sutu...

CONTEXT Traditionally, circumcision wounds are closed by absorbable sutures. However, certain alternative methods are also being utilized to overcome the shortcomings of the conventionally used method for circumcision wound closuring. In the current study, the use of tissue glue ((iso amyl 2-cyanoacrylate) has been compared with traditional suturing for the approximation of circumcision wounds....

| We examine the functional cohesion of procedures using a data slice abstraction. Our analysis identiies the data tokens that lie on more than one slice as the \glue" that binds separate components together. Cohesion is measured in terms of the relative number of glue tokens, tokens that lie on more than one data slice, and super-glue tokens, tokens that lie on all data slices in a procedure, ...

We study a vacation-type queueing model, and a singleserver multi-queue polling model, with the special feature of retrials. Just before the server arrives at a station there is some deterministic glue period. Customers (both new arrivals and retrials) arriving at the station during this glue period will be served during the visit of the server. Customers arriving in any other period leave imme...