conclusions vacuum-assisted abdominal closure is a good technique for temporary abdominal closure. in patients who are unable to achieve fascial closure, skin closure alone is safe. results after 157 trauma laparotomies, 35 (22%) were open abdomen cases with an average injury severity score was 35. ninety-four percent of open abdomens occurred after damage-control surgery. temporary vacuum-assi...

BACKGROUND Mesenteric defect closure in laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery has been reported to reduce the risk for small bowel obstruction. Little is known, however, about the effect of mesenteric defect closure on patient-reported outcome. The aim of the present study was to see if mesenteric defect closure affects health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) after laparoscopic gastric bypass. M...

The international literature links mining booms with social disruption. rapid economic and population growth that brings increases urban crime problems. But insufficient attention has been paid to the reverse situation: disruption can accompany closure of a mine. We compare statistics for four categories small city, known in South Africa as “intermediate city municipalities,” from 2009 2018. Co...

Heterochronic changes in the rate or timing of development underpin many evolutionary transformations. In particular, the onset and rate of bone development have been the focus of many studies across large clades. In contrast, the termination of bone growth, as estimated by suture closure, has been studied far less frequently, although a few recent studies have shown this to represent a variabl...

BACKGROUND In the absence of other evidence, modelling has been used extensively to help policy makers plan for a potential future influenza pandemic. METHOD We have constructed an individual based model of a small community in the developed world with detail down to exact household structure obtained from census collection datasets and precise simulation of household demographics, movement w...

This article investigates how the means by which actors compete for position in management of international society stratifies order. Advancing scholarship on hierarchies, it applies a theory social closure to examine two status groups, The Family Civilised Nations and G20, arguing that stratification is reproduced dynamic interplay top-down collectivist exclusion part superiorly positioned bot...

<p style="text-align: justify;">A comparative study of the relationship between need for cognitive closure, social anxiety, and strategies regulating emotions in phobia was carried out. We examined 135 people (57.8% female; Mage=32.8±11.3 years) with a diagnosis "Social phobia" (F40.1, ICD-10), combined other mental disorders (mean disorder duration — 13.1±...

This article examines the process through which multilevel network structures translate into knowledge acquisition from alliance partners. The degree of knowledge transfer a multidivisional company achieves from its network of alliance partners is determined not only by the organization's external network structure, but also by the structure of relationships among its business units. By disting...