Development of biliary casts is very unusual, especially in patients who have not undergone liver transplantation. Variable causes of biliary cast formation in nonliver transplantation patients have been suggested. However, stasis of bile flow and/or gallbladder hypocontractility is known to eventually result in the promotion of biliary sludge and subsequent cast formation. Here we present one ...

-In this study bulk and thin cast samples were produced with an identical Sn3.9Ag0.6Cu composition. The thin cast material exhibited a much finer as-quenched microstructure than the bulk material with the IMC phase restricted to a thin network. Both the bulk and thin cast materials continually softened during room temperature aging, while both materials initially softened and then subsequently ...

Casting is an important part of the postoperative treatment in foot and ankle surgery. Applying a split plaster cast allows for swelling while maintaining surgical correction and alignment. Resecting approximately a 1-in. portion of the plaster cast dorsally and anteriorly maintains stable structural support of the cast while relieving the pressure caused by swelling. We describe a technique fo...

Using synthetic objects, I investigate whether recognition performance is sensitive to different features of cast and attached shadows. Participants were required to recognise familiar objects presented to central vision while the presence, position and shape of cast and attached shadows were systematically manipulated. Costs in response time were found for naming objects in incongruent lightin...

Study Design: A prospective, observational case series of eighteen children with early onset scoliosis undergo spine manipulation and casting. Objective: Determine if respiratory system compliance decreases during casting warrants tracheal intubation in all Derotational casting procedures. Background: Children with early onset scoliosis with a Cobb angle greater than 25 degrees will have signif...

A disentanglement puzzle consists of mechanically interlinked pieces, and the puzzle is solved by disentangling one piece from another set of pieces. A cast puzzle is a type of disentanglement puzzle, where each piece is a zinc die-casting alloy. In this paper, we consider the generalized cast puzzle problem whose input is the layout of a finite number of pieces (polyhedrons) in the 3-dimension...

In this paper we describe the CoSy Architecture Schema, and the software toolkit we have built to allow us to produce instantiations of this schema for intelligent robots. Although the schema does not specify a cognitive model per se, it constrains the space of models that can be built from it. Along with descriptions of the schema and toolkit we present the motivation behind our designs (a nee...