Introduction Laparoscopic antireflux surgery (LARS) has shown excellent results for treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). With success rates between 93% and 97% and a low incidence of complications. Life expectancy in our country is increasing and more patients over 65 years of age are admitted for surgical intervention. The aim of this retrospective study was to compare reflux a...

Introduction To immediately monitor disease outbreaks, the application of laboratory-based surveillance is more popular in recent years. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) has developed LARS to collect the laboratory-confirmed cases caused by any of 20 pathogens daily via automated submitting of reports from hospital laboratory information system (LIS) to LARS since 2014 [1]. LOINC is us...

because of low spatial resolution and simplifications in meteorological processes in global circulation models, they cannot sufficiently simulate the weather, comparing to the regional models; then, spatial and temporal downscaling of the gcm outputs are needed for decreasing errors of the global circulation models. there are two methods of downscaling: statistical and dynamic. weather generato...

Recent work in reinforcement learning has emphasized the power of L1 regularization to perform feature selection and prevent overfitting. We propose formulating theL1 regularized linear fixed point problem as a linear complementarity problem (LCP). This formulation offers several advantages over the LARS-inspired formulation, LARS-TD. The LCP formulation allows the use of efficient off-theshelf...

BACKGROUND Acute bilateral patellar tendon rupture is a rare occurrence, with only 1 case reported in the English literature of a young, fit athlete with no regular medications. To our knowledge this is the first such case reported using a LARS reconstruction. CASE PRESENTATION A 26-year-old otherwise well ex-olympic gymnast with bilateral acute on chronic patellar tendon rupture underwent re...

PURPOSE To report on the use of the Ligament Advanced Reinforcement System (LARS) to enhance joint stability and functional outcome in proximal humeral endoprosthesis reconstruction. METHODS Two men and 5 women aged 16 to 66 (mean, 28) years underwent wide resection of tumour and endoprosthesis reconstruction of the proximal humerus using the LARS, as the rotator cuff and/or deltoid muscle co...

This paper presents a grid-enabled MapReduce framework called “Ussop”. Ussop provides its users with a set of C-language based MapReduce APIs and an efficient runtime system for exploiting the computing resources available on public-resource grids. Considering the volatility nature of the grid environment, Ussop introduces two novel task scheduling algorithms, namely: Variable-Sized Map Schedul...

We would like to thank Philip Lowe, Lars Svensson and David Gruen for helpful suggestions. We are extremely grateful to Luci Ellis for training us in the use of Mathematica 3.0. Any remaining errors are ours. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Reserve Bank of Australia.