Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine: Post-qualitative re-turnings

Post-thoracotomy wound separation (DEHISCENCE): A disturbing complication

OBJECTIVES We described the treatment of dehiscence of thoracotomy incisions in patients who underwent thoracic surgery in the present study. METHODS Twenty-four patients with either partial or complete dehiscence of their thoracotomy incisions were included in the study from 2005 to 2010. The patients were evaluated regarding their age, sex, indication for thoracotomy, and surgical approache...

Post Re-attachment Retinal Re-detachment

In this report, we consider retinal detachment in the eye, which happens when the retina comes away from the choroid. This condition is often treated by removing the vitreous humour from the eye (vitrectomy) and spot-welding the retina back on to the choroid. After this, the vitreous body is refilled with saline or silicone oil. The vitreous humour is a viscoelastic material, with a very high e...

Re-gendering Data: Quantifying Qualitative

Disturbing the Black Hole

I describe some examples in support of the conjecture that the horizon area of a near equilibrium black hole is an adiabatic invariant. These include a Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by quasistatic scalar fields (which may be minimally or nonminimally coupled to curvature), a Kerr black under the influence of scalar radiation at the superradiance treshold, and a Reissner–Nordström black hol...

Disturbing Vortices

Inviscid spatially compact vortices (such as the Rankine vortex) have discrete Kelvin modes. For these modes, the critical radius, at which the rotation frequency of the wave matches the angular velocity of the fluid, lies outside the vortex core. When such a vortex is not perfectly compact, but has a weak vorticity distribution beyond the core, these Kelvin disturbances are singular at the cri...