Surgical treatment for diffusely diseased coronary arteries has been considered to be a relative contraindication for off pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) grafting. We report a case of off pump long-onlay-bypass grafting using the left internal mammary artery. To our knowledge, the long-onlay-patch grafting with OPCAB technique has not been previously described. Two sets of Octopus-3 tissue ...

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the influence of inlays/onlays and their material on stress distribution in mandibular molars with large cavities, using finite element analysis (FEA). Methods: 3D models first molar were created. Then, a mesio-occluso-distal cavity was created, cusps reduced (1.5 mm for buccal 1 lingual cusps). The restorations were: inlay, onlay that covered (B models)...

PURPOSE The right half-field eye-patching technique has been reported to be effective in reducing unilateral neglect (UN) and improving functional ability in stroke patients. This study investigated the efficacy of conventional treatment with right half-field eye patching in treating subacute stroke patients with UN, using a randomised controlled trial. METHOD Thirty-five inpatients with suba...

Although Branch and Bound (BnB) methods are among the most widely used techniques for solving hard problems, it is still a challenge to make these methods smarter. In this paper, we investigate iterative patching, a technique in which a fixed patching procedure is applied at each node of the BnB search tree for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem. Computational experiments show that itera...

When our democracies are broken, we need to ‘fix’ societies. There no quick fixes, but the good news is that society resilient and people will make new connections. We look better for those ‘small democratic wins’ learn from them improve systems. This seems be core message of book ‘Mending Democracies’, sits within a critical pragmatist approach starts analysis deficits offer language insights ...

In recent years, vendor liability for software security vulnerabilities has been the center of an important debate in the software community and a topic gaining government attention in legislative committees and hearings. The importance of this question surrounding vendor security liability is amplified when one considers the increasing emergence of “zero-day” attacks where hackers take advanta...