The April-June 2006 edition of JSLS contained 2 disturbing papers addressing technical aspects of vascular control in laparoscopic donor nephrectomies. Lallas et al report an algorithm developed during a series of 200 cases performed at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona in which “early vessel branching or a potential for inadequate vessel length” prompted the use of Hem-o-lok clips on the ...

P.A.V.B. Swamy 1,†, I-Lok Chang 2, Jatinder S. Mehta 3, William H. Greene 4, Stephen G. Hall 5,6 and George S. Tavlas 5,7,* 1 Federal Reserve Board (Retired), Washington, DC 20551, USA; [email protected] 2 Department of Mathematics (Retired), American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA; [email protected] 3 Department of Mathematics (Retired), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 1...

The solvent effect of 4 concentrations of sodium hypochlorite (0.5, 1.0, 2.5, and 5.0%) on bovine pulp tissue and the level of residual chlorine, pH and surface tension before and after dissolution were studied in vitro. A fragment of bovine pulp was submersed in sodium hypochlorite that circulated in an apparatus with a peristaltic pump and Luer Lok syringe. The higher the concentration of sod...

Abortion was illegal in India under the IPC, and only women were to blame for crime. A first step toward legalising abortion is Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971. By facilitating legal abortions performed by skilled professionals, primary goal reduce deaths injuries caused unsafe abortions. As soon as pregnancy detected, a medical can be taking medicine. The Lok Sabha has received measu...

The present study was undertaken to identify the stable genotypes for grain yield and yields related components with desirable performance under different environmental conditions taking forty wheat were evaluated two years (2017-19) dates of sowing. Pooled analysis variance showed highly significant variations genotypes, environments x (G X E). Stability revealed that LOK-1, NI-5439 HUW-468 ha...

The quantification of the quality of a structural dynamical model remains a major issue today, and increasingly numerous methods are being devised in order to validate a model by comparison with an experimental reference. This paper presents a theory based on the concept of Lack Of Knowledge, which consists in globalizing the various sources of errors on the substructure level using a scalar in...

, 504 (2005); 308 Science Roger Brent and Larry Lok A Fishing Buddy for Hypothesis Generators This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. clicking here. colleagues, clients, or customers by , you can order high-quality copies for your If you wish to distribute this article to others here. following the guidelines can be obtained by Permission to republish or repurpose articles or ...

In this paper I will describe Polly, a low cost visionbased robot that gives primitive tours. The system is very simple, robust and efficient, and runs on a hardware platform which could be duplicated for less than $lOK US. The system was built to explore how knowledge about the structure the environment can be used in a principled way to simplify both visual and motor processing. I will argue ...

The quantification of the quality of a structural dynamical model remains a major issue today, and increasingly numerous methods are being devised in order to validate a model by comparison with an experimental reference. This paper presents a theory based on the concept of Lack Of Knowledge, which consists in globalizing the various sources of errors on the substructure level using a scalar in...

Data Synthesis: 172 studies evaluated diagnostic accuracy. For identifying clinically significant fibrosis, the platelet count, age– platelet index, aspartate aminotransferase–platelet ratio index (APRI), FibroIndex, FibroTest, and Forns index had median positive likelihood ratios of 5 to 10 at commonly used cutoffs and areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curve (AUROCs) of 0.70 or...