Background and aim : The clinical management of verrucae vulgaris is often challenging and no treatment is always effective. Early studies have suggested that pulsed-dye laser (PDL) may be highly effective in the treatment of verrucae through obliteration of dilated vessels in papillary dermis. The objective of this study was to compare safety and efficacy of 585 nm with 595 nm PDL in the...

BACKGROUND The pulsed dye laser (PDL) has long been used for treatment of erythematous and hypertrophic scars. Its effectiveness has been attributed in large part to its vascular-specificity. The vascular-specific potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) laser has also been reported to be clinically effective for scars, but has not been compared to the PDL. OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and clinic...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The 585-nm pulsed-dye laser and the 1,450-nm diode laser have been found effective for the treatment of mild-to-moderate inflammatory facial acne. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the combined treatment with the 595-nm pulsed-dye laser and the 1,450-nm diode laser for inflammatory facial acne. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifteen p...

This work uses a higher-order discontinuous-Galerkin finite-element method to solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations [1,2]. The unsteady Navier-Stokes equations are discretized using a non-linearly stable space-time entropyvariable formulation. The inviscid flux is computed using the approximate Riemann solver of Ismail and Roe [3]. The viscous fluxes are computed using an interior pena...

INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................... 573 I. PERSISTENT RACE-BASED DEATH SENTENCING IN THE “MODERN ERA” OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ......................................... 575 II. RACE-BASED PUNITIVENESS: SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL REALITIES ...... 587 III. CLOSING THE GAP: RACIALLY FAIR OR UNFIXABLE? ......................... 595 CONCLUSIO...

The performance of circulating biomarkers for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is sub-optimal. In this study we tested circulating microRNAs as biomarkers for HCC in cirrhotic patients by performing a two stage study: a discovery phase conducted by microarray and a validation phase performed by qRT-PCR in an independent series of 118 patients. Beside miRNAs emerged from the disco...

cial problems affecting the skin and nails, to deeply invasive and disseminated infections, such as systemic candidiasis and pulmonary aspergillosis. These illnesses reduce the quality of life of patients and can progress to become life threatening. Four classes of antifungal drugs are available at present: polyene macrolides, azoles, flucytosine and candins. However, their use is restricted by...

PUFs: "Innovative circuit primitives that extract secrets from physical characteristics of ICs" Most proposed PUFs based on exploiting inherent delay characteristics of wires and transistors that differ from chip to chip because of manufacturing process variations Popular applications include low-cost authentication and generation of volatile secret key for crypto Typical applications of PUFs l...

A recent publication in volume 21 issue 3 of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, entitled “Overexpression of miR-595 and miR1246 in the Sera of Patients with Active Forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease”, demonstrates Ocean Ridge Biosciences’ (ORB) profiling capabilities to identify circulating biomarkers. This study revealed that microRNAs miR-595 and miR-1246 circulating in serum can distinguish patie...