E ARLY rising from bed and walking preclude the protracted period of inertia which traditionally follows in the wake of surgery and permit the prompt resumption of normal activity. Many postoperative complications are favorably effected by such a program. Unfortunately, the incidence of thrombosis, of suspected thrombosis, and of thrombosis and embolism together is unaltered. Fatalities from ma...

Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hos Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: inge.herrmann +41 44 255 34 13 Institute of Physiology and Zurich Cen University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 19 Swiss HPB and Transplantion Center, Dep Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zurich, S ETH Zurich, Institute for Chemical and Bi CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Sonne ETH Zurich, L...

A central problem in population ecology is to use time series data to estimate the form of density dependence in the per capita growth rate (pgr). This is often accomplished with phenomenological models such as the theta-Ricker or generalized Beverton-Holt. Using the theta-Ricker model as a simple but flexible description of density dependence, we apply theory and simulations to show how multim...

The Hosfords consequently sued State Termite and the Inspector alleging negligence and several other theories of recovery. In the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi, State Termite did not deny that a pest control operator is held to a duty of reasonable care similar to that imposed upon anyone providing expert or specialized services to the public. Rather, State Termite claimed there ...

We in this paper study quantum correlations for two neutral spin-particles coupled with a single-mode optical cavity through the usual magnetic interaction. Two-spin entangled states for both antiparallel and parallel spin-polarizations are generated under the photon coherent-state assumption. Based on the quantum master equation we derive the time-dependent quantum correlation of Clauser-Horne...

We experimentally realize "hybrid" entanglement swapping between discrete-variable (DV) and continuous-variable (CV) optical systems. DV two-mode entanglement as obtainable from a single photon split at a beam splitter is robustly transferred by means of efficient CV entanglement and operations, using sources of squeezed light and homodyne detections. The DV entanglement after the swapping is v...

The Fellegi-Holt algorithm (Fellegi and Holt 1976) provides a framework for item imputation by identifying for each record with one or more edit failures a minimal set of fields that must be imputed in order to satisfy a cohesive set of edits. The set of fields is minimal in the sense that there exists at least one joint value for the fields in the set such that, when this joint value is substi...

We present a fiber-based source of polarization-entangled photons that is well suited for quantum communication applications in the 1550 nm band of standard fiber-optic telecommunications. Polarization entanglement is created by pumping a nonlinear-fiber Sagnac interferometer with two time-delayed orthogonally polarized pump pulses and subsequently removing the time distinguishability by passin...

We report on the association of Mayer-von Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKHS) with a unique form of Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) with an aorto-pulmonary window. A 24-year-old Turkish woman was referred to our hospital because of primary amenorrhoea. Both her vagina and uterus were absent, and the diagnosis of MRKHS was established. Laparoscopic creation of a neovagina by the modified Vecchiet...