The mesh plug technique is one of the most popular procedures for inguinal hernia repair in Japan. This procedure is quick, easy, and low cost with a low recurrence rate. However, some complications associated with the mesh plug have been reported recently. We hereby present a case of an 80-year-old female admitted to our hospital with swelling and pain in the right lower abdomen 5 years after ...

B ONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION may effectively protect dogs exposed to whole-body ionizing radiations of 2 to 3 LD95. Hematopoiesis was investigated at remote periods after the exposure, when the hematopoietic stem cells had been proliferating in the lethally irradiated organism for a long time. Ferrebee and his associates’6 succeeded in attaining long-term survival of supralethally irradiated do...

Particle concentration is a key unit operation in biochemical assays. Although there are many techniques for particle concentration in continuous-phase microfluidics, relatively few are available in multiphase (plug-based) microfluidics. Existing approaches generally require external electric or magnetic fields together with charged or magnetized particles. This paper reports a passive techniqu...

In the present study, we investigate the effect of wall flexibility on the plug propagation and the resulting wall stresses in small airway models with experimental measurements and numerical simulations. Experimentally, a flexible microchannel was fabricated to mimic the flexible small airways using soft lithography. Liquid plugs were generated and propagated through the microchannels. The loc...

PURPOSE New technical approaches involving biologically derived products have been used to treat complex anal fistulas in order to avoid the risk of fecal incontinence. The least invasive methods involve filling out the fistula tract with fibrin glue or introduction of an anal fistula plug into the fistula canal following thorough curettage. A review shows that the new techniques involving biol...

This paper presents the WANDA Workbench, which is an open framework for electronic data processing. The framework provides generic interfaces for 'plug-in' applications for graphical user interfaces (client desktop with client plug-ins) and processing modules (server with server plug-ins). The applied plug-in concept allows for the functional extension of the workbench without changing the fram...

The GENSS project has developed a flexible generic brokerage framework based on the use of plug-in components that are themselves web services. The focus in GENSS has been on mathematical web services, but the broker itself is domain independent and it is the plug-ins that act as sources of domain-specific knowledge. A range of plug-ins has been developed that offer a variety of matching techno...

A new software configuration method using plug-in style components was established for the tool with the incremental development of software used in protein structural study. Our memory database provides the interface of data and functions among plug-in modules and its host program. A molecular structure browser program was developed together with several plug-in modules on our programming libr...

Setting of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is affected by various factors. The purpose this in vitro study was to evaluate the influence root canal wall thickness on mechanical properties MTA along whole apical plug. Bovine bone mold tubes with internal diameter 2 mm, height 5 and 0.8 1.2 1.6 mm were filled 3 ProRoot kept 37 °C relative humidity 100% for 7 days. indentation hardness reduced mo...

We consider functional measurement error models where the measurement error distribution is estimated non-parametrically.We derive a locally efficient semiparametric estimator but propose not to implement it owing to its numerical complexity. Instead, a plug-in estimator is proposed, where the measurement error distribution is estimated through non-parametric kernel methods based on multiple me...