Tumors of the paratesticular region most often arise from the soft tissue surrounding the spermatic cord and the epididymis or from the soft tissue (dartos muscle) of the scrotal wall. Paratesticular tumors, despite their rarity, present a high incidence of malignancy (30%), and the therapeutic approach of choice is surgical resection with negative margin. The grade, the histology type, the pre...

We explore the use of soft computing and user de ned classi cations in multimedia database systems for contentbased queries. With traditional database systems, objects/tuples are grouped into classes/relations using \hard" membership. Hence, the result of a query to obtain the members of a class is a xed set. With multimedia databases, however, an object may belong to di erent classes with di e...

One of the key elements of implant maintenance and longevity is good physiological architecture of the supporting tissues to form an appropriate environment for implants to yield both functional and cosmetic benefits. This paper analyzes the position of periimplant soft tissues which is largely determined by biological factors like periodontal bioform, the biotype, biological width and the osse...

In late-age silicon, soft errors become an issue even for low-margin products. Since classical hardening techniques are associated with costs which may not be acceptable for such ICs, selective hardening which targets only a subset of all possible soft errors has been suggested. We propose a soft error selection method based on severity of an error’s impact on system behavior. Some soft errors ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if hard and soft rib protector garments have an effect on trunk kinematics and throw performance (accuracy and speed) of experienced quarterbacks during an overhand football pass. Eight quarterbacks completed 10 throws during each of three rib protector conditions (no rib, soft, hard). Protector conditions were compared using non-inferiority testing. N...

477 nodular lesion with a well-defined margin, but had no erosion, eschar, or bleeding. In addition, it did not invade the periungual or subungual region. Furthermore, it had a soft surface with soft tissue adhesion. There were no notable findings on radiography nor a family history. However, the patient did have a severalyear history of tinea pedis. The patient scratched the itching area, resu...

Background: Granular cell tumor (Abrikossoff’s tumor) is a rare and slow-growing tumor of the soft tissue. Originated from the Schwann cells, it is often a benign tumor, but it can be malignant in 1-3% of the cases. Malignant cases can cause significant morbidity and mortality. It may develop in many anatomic locations, especially in the head and neck region, and also in skin and subcutaneous t...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in optical appearance of the soft tissues labial to dental implants and to analyze the effects of titanium implant neck colors transmitted through the marginal mucosa. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fourteen patients with 15 Straumann single implant replacements in the maxillary anterior region were recruited. Color measurements of...

Large-margin discriminative training of hidden Markov models has received significant attention recently. A natural and interesting question is whether the existing discriminative training algorithms can be extended directly to embed the concept of margin. In this paper, we give this question an affirmative answer by showing that the sigmoid bias in the conventional minimum classification error...