In this study, partial breast reconstruction was undertaken after breast conservation therapy using mini abdominal free flaps on both an immediate and delayed basis.Patient demographics, oncologic status, reconstructive data, and complications were collected from medical records.Twelve patients (age range 39-60) were included in this study with a mean follow-up time of 5 years. Ten mini superfi...

BACKGROUND In recent years, a surgical technique known as single-anastomosis gastric bypass or mini-gastric bypass has been developed. Its frequency of performance has increased considerably in the current decade. AIM To describe the mini-gastric bypass technique, its implementation and preliminary results in a university hospital. M...

Anterior torque control during retraction is difficult to achieve with lingual orthodontic treatment. This article describes the use of a lever-arm and mini-implant system as absolute anchorage for controlled retraction of the anterior teeth during lingual orthodontic treatment and evaluates 2 protrusion cases treated with this system. Various clinical situations are discussed and analyzed from...

Solar mini-dimmings can be detect in the Extreme Ultra-Violet coronal eruptions. Here, sequences of 171_A images taken by Solar Dynamic Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembaly on 13 June 2010 are used. In this special day, both of coronal mass ejection and prominence were observed. The average velocities and accelerations of 500 mini-dimmings which were detected using on feature based classif...

1) There exists a study on employing mini-batch approach on SVRG, one of the VR methods. It shows that the approach cannot scale well that there is no significant difference between using 16 threads and more[2]. This study observes the cause of the poor scalability of this existing mini-batch approach on VR method. 2) The performance of mini-batch approach on distributed setting is improved by ...

ObjectivesThis FEM study was conducted in order to investigate the effect of thread design of an orthodontic mini-implant on primary stability and strain pattern and magnitude in the surrounding bone structure during orthodontic loading. Materials and MethodsThe mini-implants by six different manufacturers such as Aarhus Mini-Implant (American Orthodontics), AbsoAnchor (Dentos), Dual-Top (Jeil ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to assess nutritional status and identify the most significant mna-items (mini nutritional assessment) to accelerate the determination of nutritional risk of heart-failure in elderly patients. methods and materials: the present research was a cross-sectional descriptive analytical survey on hospitalized heart- failure elderly patients (n=225). the sampling ...

The aim of the work was to analyze influence variables such as shading, temperature and humidity in production rooting mini-cuttings Sequoia sempervirens (D. Dom) Endl. a clonal mini-garden. experiment conducted at Forest Nursery University Santa Catarina State - CAV/UDESC, Lages SC. minicuttings were obtained by vegetative rescue single clone (A228). original S. individuals studied are located...

Background: Recently, some new viruses have been identified for their association with hepatitis which Torque Teno Mini Virus being among them. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of Torque Teno Mini Virus in healthy individuals and hepatitis B and C patients in Isfahan, Iran. Materials and Methods: One hundred serum samples of healthy individuals from Isfahan Blood Transfusi...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that mini-αA can protect retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells from apoptosis. However, no in vivo study concerning the anti-apoptotic function of mini-αA has been conducted yet. METHODS MTT assay, HE staining and TUNEL assay were used to assess levels of cells, and an animal model was established to examine the protective effects of mini-αA against NaIO3-induce...