the last decade has ushered in a rapidly expanding global discussion regarding acellular dermal matrix (adm) applications, economic analyses, technical considerations, benefits, and risks, with recent emphasis on adm use in breast surgery. this study aims to evaluate global trends in adm research using bibliometric analysis. the top nine plastic surgery journals were determined by impact factor...

Global optimization remains an important area of active research. Many macroscopic and microscopic applications in science and engineering still present formidable challenges to current global optimization techniques. In this work, a completely different, novel and general geometric framework for continuous global optimization is described. The proposed methodology is based on intelligent movem...

this paper presents an efficient global meta-model building technique for solving high fidelity multidisciplinary design optimization (mdo) problems. the main difficulties associated with mdo are often characterized by interdisciplinary couplings, high computational cost of an analysis in individual disciplines and a large number of design variables and constraints. these issues result in very ...

This paper is devoted to the theoretical conceptualization of political-economic processes within the Eurasian Economic Union. The author elaborates on this project within the framework of “global regionalization” and regards it as a fledging “global region.” In this paper, the European Union is analyzed as a model of the existing global region. The Eurasian region also has its own specific tra...

This paper proposes a novel fusion approach to content-based image retrieval. In our retrieval system, an image is represented by a set of color-clustering-based segmented regions and global/semi-global edge histogram descriptors (EHDs). As a result, the resemblance of two images is measured by an overall similarity fusing both region-based and global/semi-global-based image level similarities....

Economic evaluation of 12 MW grid-connected wind farms and PV power plants in two regions in Northern Cyprus for electricity generation was investigated. The wind speed, sunshine duration, and solar global radiation characteristics were analyzed using monthly data collected over 17 years (2000-2016) for Girne and nine years (2008-2016) for Lefkoşa, which were measured at various heights. The re...

The last decade has ushered in a rapidly expanding global discussion regarding acellular dermal matrix (ADM) applications, economic analyses, technical considerations, benefits, and risks, with recent emphasis on ADM use in breast surgery. This study aims to evaluate global trends in ADM research using bibliometric analysis. The top nine Plastic Surgery journals were determined by impact factor...

jeremy shiffman’s editorial appropriately calls on making all forms of power more apparent and accountable, notably productive power derived from expertise and claims to moral authority. this commentary argues that relationships based on productive power can be especially difficult to reveal in global health policy because of embedded notions about the nature of power and politics. yet, it is e...

This work investigates the nature and the role of magnetic reconnection in a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the magnetosphere. We use the Gumics-4 simulation to study reconnection that occurs in the near-Earth region of the current sheet in the magnetotail. We locate the current sheet surface and the magnetic x-line that appears when reconnection starts. We illustrate the difference b...