background: the technique of vertical dome division or tip defining, involves incising the lateral crura and vestibular skin at or lateral to the dome or tip defining point. the incision di-vides the lower lateral cartilage into a lateral segment and a medial segment, which are advanced anteriorly and sutured together to increase tip projection. the present study aimed at assessing a new vertic...

The Distributed object migration environment (Dome) addresses three major issues of distributed parallel programming: ease of use, load balancing, and fault tolerance. Dome provides process control, data distribution, communication, and synchronization for Dome programs running in a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. The parallel programmer writes a C++ program using Dome objects ...

Coxeter’s classification of the highly symmetric geodesic domes (and, by duality, the highly symmetric fullerenes) is extended to a classification scheme for all geodesic domes and fullerenes. Each geodesic dome is characterized by its signature: a plane graph on twelve vertices with labeled angles and edges. In the case of the Coxeter geodesic domes, the plane graph is the icosahedron, all ang...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to clarify the clinical anatomy of the pulmonary root. BACKGROUND Many descriptions of valvular anatomy have focused on the annulus, leading to varied interpretations of abnormal valves. METHODS Twenty-two heart specimens with isolated pulmonary valvular stenosis were examined to analyze the gross structure of the pulmonary root. For comparison, we examined a nor...

Previously, we presented a method for automatic registration of real time multi-view range image obtained under the condition free from any artificial restriction. This paper describes a method for real time and automatic reconstruction of thus registered multi-view range images by means of geodesic dome type data structure. It ensures isotropy of sampling region and so may faithfully represent...