STUDY DESIGN A retrospective chart review. PURPOSE In endemic resource poor countries like Pakistan, most patients are diagnosed and treated for Potts disease on clinical and radiological grounds without a routine biopsy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use and effect of computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy in the management of Potts disease since the technique is becoming inc...

The article by Potts et al, “The Pill is Mightier than the Sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. Evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

Geoffrey Grimmett Abstra t. Known differential inequalities for certain ferromagnetic Potts models with pairinteractions may be extended to Potts models with many-body interactions. As a major application of such differential inequalities, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions on the set of interactions of such a Potts model in order that its critical point be a strictly monotonic funct...

The critical exponents of the four-state Potts model are directly derived from the exact expressions for the latent heat, the spontaneous magnetization, and the correlation length at the transition temperature of the model. PACS numbers: 05.50.+q, 05.70.–a, 64.60.Cn, 75.10.Hk Typeset using REVTEX 1 The q-state Potts model [1,2] is a generalization of the Ising model that is the twostate Potts m...

– The fuzzy Potts model is obtained by looking at the Potts model with a pair of glasses that prevents distinguishing between some of the spin values. We show that the fuzzy Potts model on Z (d 2) is Gibbsian at high temperatures and non-Gibbsian at low temperatures.  2003 Published by Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS RÉSUMÉ. – Le modèle de Potts flou est obtenu en regardant le...

the article by potts et al, “the pill is mightier than the sword,” points out that family planning has an important role to play in building peace by increasing women’s empowerment and their agency, ultimately helping peacebuilding efforts. evidence has demonstrated that family planning programs are cost effective, produce quick results, help women and couples meet their desired fertility level...

The results of 28 Potts' aortopulmonary shunts created for the relief of cyanotic heart disease are reviewed in this study. The shunt gave excellent symptomatic relief, but the incidence of immediate and late complications is high. Regular follow-up of patients is mandatory to detect evidence of increasing pulmonary vascular disease and to under take corrective surgery whenever feasible before ...

We investigate the non-smooth and non-convex L1-Potts functional in discrete and continuous time. We show Γ-convergence of discrete L1-Potts functionals towards their continuous counterpart and obtain a convergence statement for the corresponding minimizers as the discretization gets ner. For the discrete L1-Potts problem, we introduce an O(n2) time and O(n) space algorithm to compute an exact ...