The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and safety of the double Y-stenting technique, by which silicone Y-stents are placed on both the main carina and another peripheral carina, for patients with tracheobronchial stenosis. Under general anaesthesia, using rigid and flexible bronchoscopes, a Dumon™ Y-stent (Novatech, La Ciotat, France) was first placed on the...

Robert Weida and Diane Lit-man. Terminological reasoning with constraint networks and an application to plan recognition. In Proc. (a)g where S { called the Step Interpretation { is a function associating a newly generated function to each interval introduced by a decomposition operator. The representation of the Double-Stack plan in the extended language is: Double-Stack : = 3(x y) (x d ])(y d...

The silicone stent has been widely used to re-establish airway patency for patients with airway stenosis. The ideal shape of the stent should be well adapted to the tracheobronchial anatomic structures, and its optimal length should cover the entire inner wall of the stenotic airway. Although the silicone Y-stent was developed as a dedicated prosthesis for main carinal stenosis, we often encoun...

The goal of this paper is to give a method to compute the space of infinitesimal deformations of a double cover of a smooth algebraic variety. This research was inspired by the analysis of Calabi–Yau manifolds that arise as smooth models of double covers of P branched along singular octic surfaces ([4, 3]). It is of considerable interest to determine the Hodge numbers for these manifolds, but t...

#include // smallpt, a Path Tracer by Kevin Beason, 2008 #include // Make : g++ -O3 -fopenmp smallpt.cpp -o smallpt #include //Note typedef struct Vec { // Usage: time ./explicit 16 && xv image.ppm double x, y, z; // position, also color (r,g,b) Vec(double x_=0, double y_=0, double z_=0){ x=x_; y=y_; z=z_; } Vec operator+(const Vec &b;) const { return Vec(x+b.x,y+b....

total or partial absence or excess of the sex chromosomes produces different karyotypes and phenotypical abnormalities. upon retrospective analysis of the results of 163444 cytogenetic tests that were performed during 28 years (1987-2015) in this center, different types of sex chromosomal aberrations and the clinical phenotypes are delineated in this article. moreover, the clinical course and t...

Y-configured double stent technique is useful for coil embolization of a bifurcation wide neck aneurysm while preserving the patency of the two important vessels. However, if the important vessels emanating directly from the aneurysm comprised four vessels, two vessels not deployed, Y-stents might not be preserved with the Y-stent technique by itself. We report a case treated with Y-configured ...

Double-balloon endoscopy facilitates endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with a Roux-en-Y anastomosis [1]. However, it is difficult to identify the afferent limb during double-balloon ERCP [2]. According to retrospective data from February 2007 to January 2009, the rate of accurate identification was 50% (14/28). We report a useful technique to identify the afferen...

Latest results on 0νββ, 0νχ 0 ββ and 2νββ decays of different isotopes from NEMO-3 double beta decay experiment are presented. In particular, new limits at 90% C.L. on neurtinoless double beta decay of 100 M o and 82 Se have been obtained, T 1/2 > 5.8 × 10 23 y and T 1/2 > 2.1 × 10 23 y, respectively.

were constructed in R 2 = {(x, y) : x > 0, y > 0} . In the present paper (in case of λ = 0) using the constructed fundamental solutions, a double layer potentials are defined and investigated. Limiting theorems are proved, and integral equations concerning a denseness of potentials of a double layer are found. MSC: Primary 35J15, 35J70.