OBJECTIVE Cholecystectomy is one of the most common general surgical procedures performed today. The laparoscopic approach is beneficial to patients in terms of length of stay, postoperative pain, return to work, and cosmesis. Some drawbacks are associated with the minimal access form of cholecystectomy, including an increased incidence of common bile duct injuries. In addition, when the gallbl...

Correia, Anabela G., Göran Bergström, Andrew J. Lawrence, and Roger G. Evans. Renal medullary interstitial infusion of norepinephrine in anesthetized rabbits: methodological considerations. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 46): R112–R122, 1999.—We tested methods for delivery of drugs to the renal medulla of anesthetized rabbits. Outer medullary infusion (OMI) of norepi...

Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to determine the effect of age on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. PET activity associated with making plausibility judgments about syntactically more complex subject object (SO) sentences (e.g., The juice that the child spilled stained the rug) was compared to that associated with making judgm...

ABSTRACT Despite the best efforts of an on-water response to a large oil spill at sea, likelihood is that least some spilled will eventually reach shoreline. When shoreline impact occurs, or likely occur, assessment critical component and provides essential information for setting objectives, priorities, constraints endpoints effective response.

Despite large-scale development on the North Slope, no recent studies examining Alaskan arctic marine sediment microbial communities and their ability to metabolize petroleum compounds have been published. Microbial degradation of spilled petroleum hydrocarbons is a major mechanism of removal of these compounds from the environment. In this study we initiated a survey of marine sediment microbi...

Spill code is the overhead of memory load/store behavior if the available registers are not sufficient to map live ranges during the process of register allocation. Previously, works have been proposed to reduce spill code for the unified register file. For reducing power and cost in design of VLIW DSP processors, distributed register files and multibank register architectures are being adopted...