complications and that postoperative ventilation time was significantly longer in the ACP group than the RCP group. This was true for the total cohort of patients as well as for the riskadjusted analysis and propensity-matched pairing analysis. Recently, another propensity-matched analysis was carried out by a group from Duke University to examine the superiority of ACP or RCP in proximal (hemi...

Molar Incisor Hypomineralization (MIH) is characterized by a developmentally derived deficiency in mineral enamel. Affected teeth present demarcated enamel opacities, ranging from white to brown; also hypoplasia can be associated. Patient frequently claims aesthetic discomfort if anterior teeth are involved. This problem leads patients to request a bleaching treatment to improve aestheticcondit...

The use of vetoes generated from auxiliary channels suppresses most of the high amplitude noise triggers that impair gravitational wave (GW) burst and binary inspiral searches. During Virgo’s first scientific run (VSR1), many of the remaining loud burst and inspiral Virgo triggers were observed with nearly equal significance in both the in-phase (ACp) and quadrature (ACq) interferometer output ...

This manuscript intends to demonstrate the diagnostic value of previously discussed integrated parameter called atmospheric chemical potential (ACP) for tracking anomalies before strong earthquakes generated by chain processes initiated air ionization due radon emanation from Earth’s crust. For this purpose, we considered several kinds critical in atmosphere using ACP as an indicator and tool: ...

In this article we propose to introduce a new selection parameter in Genetic Algorithms (GAs) for a class of constrained reliability design problems. Our work demonstrates two major points. The first one is that the populations are quickly included in the space of the feasible solutions for a sufficiently large selection of parameter value. The second one is that the value of the selection para...

As detailed below, we respect the work of Dr. Makarieva and co-authors (Makarieva et al., 2008), but we have come to similar conclusions as Dr. Haynes and decided not to accept the manuscript for final publication in ACP. The decision is supported by the entire ACP executive committee, but for clarity and simplicity the following editorial report is formulated from my perspective as the chief-e...

This paper is concerned with finding complete axiomatizations of probabilistic processes. We examine this problem within the context of the process algebra ACP and obtain as our end-result the axiom system prACPi, a probabilistic version of ACP which can be used to reason algebraically about the reliability and performance of concurrent systems. Our goal was to introduce probability into ACP in...