Abstract Background Laparoscopically adjustable gastric bands (LAGB) have been widely employed as a means of weight loss in bariatric surgery over the past two decades. Although now largely superseded by other surgical techniques, complications from continue to be encountered practice. We report an unusual case small bowel obstruction due internal hernia caused band tubing resulting closed loop...

This abstract attempts to raise the question of whether current practices in digital preservation properly address the issues of findability of digital objects. It is also intended as a starting point for discussing preservation of digital information in contrast to digital data. The abstract is exploratory and informal. 1. Digital preservation and archival science Much of the practices recomme...

North Atlantic storms present one of the major weather risks for West (NW) Europe. Their associated strong winds and heavy precipitation can result in wind damage both coastal inland flooding. Notable recent examples include St Jude's Day storm October 2013 which brought hurricane-force to NW Europe, including record-strong Denmark loss 17 lives. In November December that year, intense rainfall...

Motivation and Objectives Within a living organism, genome and proteome variations may influence many molecular interactions and biochemical pathways, leading to deleterious effects in the proper activity of cells, tissues, and organs; ultimately, this may be the cause of many syndromes and diseases. It is now well known that tumors may arise as a result of a series of DNA sequence abnormalitie...

Interferometric near-infrared spectroscopy (iNIRS) is a time-of-flight(TOF-) resolved sensing modality for determining optical and dynamical properties of a turbid medium. iNIRS achieves this by measuring the interference spectrum of light traversing the medium with a rapidly tunable, or frequency-swept, light source. Thus, iNIRS system performance critically depends on the source and detection...

Quantum key distribution (QKD) techniques usually suffer from a gain problem when comparing the final key to the generated pulses of quantum states. This research permutes the sets that RUQB (Abu-ayyash & Ajlouni, 2008) uses in order to increase the gain. The effect of both randomness and permutations are studied; While RUQB technique improves the gain of BB84 QKD by 5.5% it was also shown that...

SUBMISSIONS First AuthorCo-AuthorsTITLENo.G. DedieuA. KarnieliO. HagolleH. JeanjeanF. CabotP. FerrierY. YanivTHE VENμS MISSION: EARTHOBSERVATION WITH HIGH SPATIALAND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONCAPABILITIEST4 A. LyapustinY. WangA GENERIC AEROSOL-SURFACEREFLECTANCE RETRIEVALALGORITHM FOR MODIST5 C. BorelC. SpencerATMO...