Perforator flaps have been introduced for coverage of local and distant defects. Various designs of this flap are possible, but their role in the setting of trauma is debated. We report that it is possible to raise these flaps in cases of post-traumatic lower limb reconstruction with good results. Consideration must be given to the type of movement that is planned vis-a-vis the number of perfor...

Silvio Berlusconi has dominated Italian political life since he was first elected prime minister in 1994. He has been the third longest-serving prime minister of Italy, after Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Giolitti, and, as of May 2011, he was the longest-serving current leader of a G8 country. This political longevity is often difficult to understand for foreign political analysts. The former I...

We show that low area density Ge/Si(100) island ensembles comprised solely of hut and pyramid clusters do not undergo Ostwald ripening during days-long growth temperature anneals. In contrast, a very low density of large, low chemical potential Ge islands reduce the supersaturation causing the huts and pyramids to ripen. By assuming that huts lengthen by adding single {105} planes that grow fro...

The scaling of the monomer and island densities, island-size distribution sISDd, capture-number distribution sCNDd, and capture-zone distribution is studied as a function of the fraction of occupied sites scoveraged and ratio D /F of the monomer hopping rate D to the sper sited monomer creation rate F in a three-dimensional s3Dd point-island model of irreversible nucleation and island growth. O...

A scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is used to examine the structural and chemical quality of the interface between thin films of YBa2Cu3O72d (YBCO) and BaF2. The STEM images indicate that it is possible to grow a uniform thin film of BaF2 that is relatively free of gross defects via a thermal evaporation method on top of a YBCO thin film. The diffraction contrast results also su...

The earliest comprehensive work on the geological formations in this county was done by Carl Rominger. He published his findings in volume 1 of the Geological Survey of Michigan in 1873. It appears from a careful reading of this report that Rominger visited practically every one of the isolated outcrops on the mainland portion of the county, and a good many of those located on the islands which...

The concept of a CpG island methylator phenotype, or CIMP, quickly became the focus of several colorectal cancer studies describing its clinical and pathological features after its introduction in 1999 by Toyota and colleagues. Further characterization of CIMP in tumors lead to widespread acceptance of the concept, as expressed by Shen and Issa in their 2005 editorial, "CIMP, at last." Since th...

Hazel Heckman is absorbed by the identification and general splendor of all living things. She has filled her most recent book with delightful descriptions of life as it is represented in its varied forms on Anderson Island in Puget Sound. Although her attention to wildflowers, weeds, trees, insects, birds, and animals seems a bit excessive, one is easily swept away by her enthusiasm for all of...

So the tonal distinctions of Chinese syllables, for example, learnt so easily by young native speakers become increasingly difficult to recognise and reproduce for older, foreign learners. But researchers are increasingly finding how able young children are at acquiring more than one language at once. “The important precursor to word learning has led to the assumption that vocabulary acquisitio...

This study tested the applicability of Island Biogeographic Theory to arthropod assemblages on ‘islands’ of creosotebush (Larrea tridentata) across a desert shrubland-grassland ecotone in central New Mexico, U.S.A. We assumed that herbivorous arthropod taxa that specialize on creosotebush view these shrubs as ‘islands’ of suitable habitat in a ‘sea’ of grassland, and used the Island Biogeograph...