Spinal deformities can result in increasing thoracic kyphosis or loss of lumbar lordosis, leading to imbalance in the sagittal plane. Such deformities can be functionally and psychologically debilitating. The Smith-Petersen osteotomy can achieve approximately 10 degrees of correction in the sagittal plane at each spinal level at which it is performed. This osteotomy is beneficial for patients w...

Monitoring is a powerful security policy enforcement paradigm that allows the execution of a potentially malicious software by observing and transforming it, thus ensuring its compliance with a user-defined security policy. Yet some restrictions must be imposed on the monitor’s ability to transform sequences, so that key elements of the execution’s semantics are preserved. An approximation of t...

This paper studies the optimal design of second-best corrective regulation, when some agents or activities cannot be perfectly regulated. We show that policy elasticities and Pigouvian wedges are sufficient statistics to characterize marginal welfare impact regulatory policies in a large class environments. is determined by subset elasticities: leakage elasticities, value relaxing constraints. ...

is believed that identity has great[s1] impact on almost every aspect of human psychological and social growth. Oral corrective feedback, on the other hand, is found to have a profound influence on learning. In this regard, this study attempted to examine any probable relationship between identity processing styles and the frequency of oral corrective feedback techniques. The participants inclu...