Objective. Cervical cancer patients who had an abandoned radical hysterectomy were evaluated for preoperative clinical predictors, complication rates, and outcomes. Study Design. IRB approval was obtained for this retrospective analysis and chart review was performed. Results. From 268 women with early-stage (IA2 to IIA) cervical cancer, 19 (7%) had an abandoned hysterectomy for finding grossly...

In recent years, visual surveillance has gained importance in security, law enforcement and military applications. Due to the wide use of video surveillance systems, the amount of data that has to be monitored and interpreted has increased enormously. Nowadays, the pure mass of information that has to be handled by the operators of such systems has overgrown their capabilities. It is therefore ...

Abandoned luggage represents a potential threat to public safety. Identifying objects as luggage, identifying the owners of such objects, and identifying whether owners have left luggage behind are the three main problems requiring solution. This paper proposes two techniques which are “foreground-mask sampling” to detect luggage with arbitrary appearance and “selective tracking” to locate and ...

AIMS AND METHODS A comparative study of abandoned street children and formerly abandoned street children was conducted in La Paz, Bolivia, representing the first such comparative assessment. Between August and December 1997, all abandoned street children in La Paz, Bolivia, who were willing to participate (n = 124) were interviewed repeatedly at night using standardised questionnaires to collec...

Do the media play a role in corporate governance and, if so, how? Those questions are broad and their answers have implications. This is especially so countries such as U.S. that characterized by free vigorous business press. By governance, we mean traditional of monitoring management to ensure top managers act shareholders’ interests. So whether this active coverage plays guiding interests how...

This project is concerned with the classification of long term changes in surveillance scenes, known as static foreground. There has been little work related to the classification of static foreground in surveillance despite its potential role in automatic identification of abandoned bombs and theft. In this project, a thorough literature review of previous techniques was carried out. It was fo...

In Eastern Spain, almond trees have been cultivated in terraced orchards for centuries, forming an integral part of the Mediterranean forest scene. In the last decades, orchards have been abandoned due to changes in society. This study investigates effects of changes in land use from forest to agricultural land and the posterior land abandonment on soil microbial community, and the influence of...