Despite increasing application of the pre-grafting expansion during autologous fat transplantation in breast reconstruction, little is known about its mechanism of action. To address that, ventral skins of miniature pigs were treated over a 10-day or 21-day period, with continuous suction at -50 mm Hg via a 7-cm diameter rubber-lined suction-cup device. Soft tissue thickness increased immediate...

Hebbian forms of synaptic plasticity are required for the orderly development of sensory circuits in the brain and are powerful modulators of learning and memory in adulthood. During development, emergence of Hebbian plasticity leads to formation of functional circuits. By modeling the dynamics of neurotransmitter release during early postnatal cortical development we show that a developmentall...

In the first week of March 2020, as COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide, fourteen American travelers spent a in Morocco. The researchers analyzed electronic correspondence, journals, recorded discussions among program participants, and interviews. data suggest that (a) participants experienced culture shock very early trip, (b) travel disruptions (especially luggage loss) affected more than COVI...

The article concerns two theatrical stagings of “Forefathers’ Eve” made by Lithuanian directors: Jonas Vaitkus (Academic Dramatic Theater in Vilnius, 1990) and Eimuntas Nekrošius (National Warsaw, 2016). author recalls the history reception both productions, juxtaposes them analyzes threads presented them.

One of the most active and most systematic researchers of the Prague group of computational linguistics, Dr. Zdeněk Kirschner, born January 15, 1924, died on the Christmas Eve 2008, three weeks before his 85th birthday. Zdeněk joined our research group in the spring of 1970, after his return from a longer stay in Tanzania, where he, among other things, was engaged in the education and cultural ...

Assume that there are players and an eavesdropper Eve of unlimited computational power and that several pairs of players have shared secret keys beforehand. A key sharing graph is one in which each vertex corresponds to a player, and each edge corresponds to a secret key shared by the two players corresponding to the ends of the edge. Given a key sharing graph, a player wishes to send a message...