The abdomen was opened by McBurney's incision and anteriorly nothing abnormal was found, the healthy caecum and ileum nicely covering up the abscess behind them. On gently exploring with the fingers behind the caecum after lifting up an adherent loop of ileum, the appendix was found in the retro-caecal position with the tip directed upwards. While exploring the abscess cavity, a little grating ...

The Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference is the main European event in the field of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and testing. This outstanding event brings together researchers, users and vendors, as well as specialists in the design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. DATE is a unification of the main conferences in the field and was built on the succes...

ConUtriuUing subject-maner experts and reviewers Included: Bill Arnold PA SZ flow issues Scott Bennett WPD Waste package and design-related FEPs Jim Houseworth UZ UZ flow issues and fracture-related FEPs Dwayne Kicker Repository Modeling Rockfall-related FEPs Dennis O'Leary USGS Faulting-related and tectonic-related FEPs Carl Stepp Site Integration Tectonic-related, faulting-related, and seismi...

Classic IP traffic engineering considers a fixed IP layer topology. In this draft, we address the limitations imposed by such static network topology. This work is motivated by introducing dynamically provisioned links to improve static IP traffic engineering constraints, and leverage the freedom of provisioning links on demand. This draft introduces the concept of a closed-loop link provisioni...

In the hot summer months of nineteenth-century colonial Australia, a quiet dread descended upon parents of the very young. Diarrhoea was about to assert its role as the greatest single threat to the lives of their infants.1 Between 1875 and 1900 Australian vital statistical records matched those of Europe, Britain and America,2 revealing a pattern in which infant diarrhoeal mortality accounted ...