Purpose. The aim of the study is to compare functional results of end-stage fecal incontinence treatment with dynamic graciloplasty and adynamic graciloplasty augmented with transanal conditioning of the transposed muscle. Methods. A total of 20 patients were qualified for graciloplasty procedure due to end-stage fecal incontinence. 7 patients underwent dynamic graciloplasty (DGP), whereas 13 p...

This paper argues that the sometimes-conflicting results of a modern revisionist literature on data mining in econometrics reflect different approaches to solving the central problem of model uncertainty in a science of non-experimental data. The literature has entered an exciting phase with theoretical development, methodological reflection, considerable technological strides on the computing ...

Human foot motion localization based on Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor especially in large environments has many potential applications such as search and rescue in fire or in emergency, navigation for visitor and security purposes, etc. However, current existing algorithms are so far from practical applications. Because they usually apply a fixed threshold for human gait phase detectio...

The nature of the fuel that drives today’s cosmic acceleration is an open and tantalizing mystery. The brane-world theory of Dvali, Gabadadze, and Porrati ~DGP! provides a context where late-time acceleration is driven not by some energy-momentum component ~dark energy!, but rather is the manifestation of the excruciatingly slow leakage of gravity off our four-dimensional world into an extra di...

Many applications of search theory in monetary economics use the Shi-TrejosWright model, hereafter STW, while applications in finance use Duffie-GârleanuPederson, hereafter DGP. These approaches have much in common, and both claim to be about liquidity, but the models also differ in a fundamental way: in STW agents use assets as payment instruments when trading goods; in DGP there are no gains ...