Barbed Olympic Motto

Citius, altius, fortius (the Olympic motto: swifter, higher, stronger).

n this Olympic year, as since time immemorial, we are ascinated with the achievements of athletes. As cardioloists, we have a special interest in the athlete’s heart, how it dapts to exercise training, what its limits are, and whether xercise can cause harm. In the 1950s, Paul Dudley White erformed an autopsy on Clarence DeMar, a perennial oston Marathon winner, and noted an enlarged heart and ...

Barbed Bisimulation

Probabilistic Barbed Congruence

This paper defines a probabilistic barbed congruence which turns out to coincide with observational equivalence in a probabilistic extension of CCS. Based on this coincidence result, we provide a sound and complete axiomatisation for the barbed congruence in a finite fragment of probabilistic CCS.

Gift in barbed wire?

Work-life balance and work-life harmony are concepts that elude so many of us, despite the fact that, as physicians, we are always telling our patients how important a healthy lifestyle is and how valuable it is in keeping us well. Every day I discuss with patients what modifiable lifestyle factors are and how they can be changed. Perhaps the most difficult challenge for most people is finding ...

Barbed sutures in facial rejuvenation.

Self-retaining barbed sutures, innovations for nonsurgical facial and neck rejuvenation, are currently available as short APTOS threads or long WOFFLES threads. The author uses APTOS threads for malar rounding, facial tightening and firming, and uses WOFFLES threads as a sling, suspending ptotic facial tissues to the firm, dense tissues of the temporal scalp.