BACKGROUND Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) is emerging as a potentially less invasive alternative to standard laparoscopic cholecystectomy and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery cholecystectomy. As this technique is more widely used, it is important to maintain well-established practices of the critical view of safety (CVS) dissection and intraoperative cholangi...

We describe the reconstitution of exocytotic function through recombination of purified cortical secretory vesicles (CVs) and plasma membrane from sea urchin eggs. CVs were dislodged from a cell surface complex preparation by gentle homogenization in an isotonic dissociation buffer, and purified by differential centrifugation. CV-free plasma membrane fragments were obtained by mechanically disl...

It is well established that in the pathology of the cardio-vascular system (CVS) only a portion of the blood volume (BV) can be in active circulation. This portion of BV is named the actively circulating volume (ACV) and is evaluated from a monotone decrease of dilution curve produced by an intravascular tracer. In given paper is presented Markov chain as a math model of the flow of a tracer th...

EUVE , ROSAT , and ASCA observations of the boundary layer emission of nonmagnetic cataclysmic variables (CVs) are reviewed. EUVE spectra reveal that the effective temperature of the soft component of high-Ṁ nonmagnetic CVs is kT ∼ 10–20 eV and that its luminosity is∼ 0.1–0.5 times the accretion disk luminosity. Although the EUV spectra are very complex and belie simple interpretation, the phys...

We have built a tool, CVSSearch [1], that searches for fragments of source code by using CVS comments. (CVS is a version control system that is widely used in the open source community [3].) Our search tool takes advantage of the fact that a CVS comment typically describes the lines of code involved in the commit and this description will typically hold for many future versions. This paper prov...

AIMS The medium term prognosis of cyclical vomiting syndrome (CVS) was studied to determine the proportion of affected individuals who had gone on to develop headaches fulfilling the International Headache Society criteria for migraine. METHODS Twenty six (76%) of 34 CVS sufferers identified from the authors' clinical records were traced, and all agreed to participate. Each child was matched ...

Original multidisciplinary research hereby clarifies the complex geodomestication pathways that generated the vast range of banana cultivars (cvs). Genetic analyses identify the wild ancestors of modern-day cvs and elucidate several key stages of domestication for different cv groups. Archaeology and linguistics shed light on the historical roles of people in the movement and cultivation of ban...

The version control archive CVS records not only all changes in a project but also activity data such as when developers create or update their workspaces. Furthermore, CVS records when it has to integrate changes because of parallel development. In this paper, we analyze the CVS activity data of for large open-source projects GCC, JBOSS, JEDIT, and PYTHON to investigate parallel development: H...

The secondary, Roche-lobe filling stars in cataclysmic variables (CVs) are key to our understanding of the origin, evolution and behaviour of this class of interacting binary. We review the basic properties of the secondary stars in CVs and the observational and analysis methods required to detect them. We then describe the various astro-tomographic techniques which can be used to map the surfa...

AE Aquarii is a propeller system. It has the shortest spin period among cataclysmic variables, and this is increasing on a 10 yr timescale. Its UV spectrum shows very strong carbon depletion vs nitrogen and its secondary mass indicates a star far from the zero–age main sequence. We show that these properties strongly suggest that AE Aqr has descended from a supersoft X–ray binary. We calculate ...