Essentials to advancement

Full thickness advancement flap to reconstruct large helical rim

Introduction: Auricular reconstruction of partial ear defects is usually challenging, especially in extended resections or traumas. Helical rim is the most noticeable part of ear with aesthetic significance, which demands detailed procedures. Helical rim advancement is a known procedure to reshape lacerated rim. In the original technique, a chondrocutaneous flap is raised in order to preserve t...

Topic Essentials

An overview of TOPIC is provided, a knowledge-based text information system for the analysis of Germanlanguage texts. TOPIC supplies text condensates (summaries) on variable degrees of generality and makes available facts acquired from the texts. The presentation focuses on the major methodological principles underlying the design of TOPIC: a frame representation model that incorporates various...

PicoSAT Essentials

In this article we describe and evaluate optimized compact data structures for watching literals. Experiments with our SAT solver PicoSAT show that this low-level optimization not only saves memory, but also turns out to speed up the SAT solver considerably. We also discuss how to store proof traces compactly in memory and further unique features of PicoSAT including an aggressive restart sched...

Essentials of Clinical Supervision

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