OBJECTIVES This study aims to show the placement of extended spreader grafts in reductive septorhinoplasty operations to support the nasal bony vault as well as the middle cartilaginous structures. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-eight patients (16 males, 22 females; mean age 26.4 years; range 18 to 55 years) who underwent septorhinoplasty under general anesthesia via open approach between Januar...

Global interconnect becomes the delay bottleneck in microprocessor designs, and latency for large on-chip caches will be intolerable in deep submicron technologies. The recently-proposed Non-Uniform Cache Architectures (NUCAs) exploit the variation in access time across subarrays to reduce typical latency. In the dynamic NUCA (D-NUCA) design, a set-associative structure is selected and thus the...

BACKGROUND Surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) can be complicated by incorrect and variable tunnel placement, graft tunnel mismatch, cortical breaches, and inadequate fixation due to screw divergence. This is the first report describing the use of a C-arm with image intensifier employed for the sole purpose of eliminating those complications during transtibial ACL re...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relative benefits and cost-effectiveness of treating iliac arterial occlusive disease with various interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cost-effectiveness was analyzed in a hypothetical cohort of patients with intermittent claudication caused by an iliac arterial stenosis. Primary stent placement, percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA), and PTA with selective sten...

The split-increment horizontal placement technique is currently used, along with other restorative techniques, in moderate-to-large occlusal cavities for reducing the shrinkage stress generated during light polymerization. Such stress, if released uncontrolled, may cause damage within composite, tooth or at adhesive interface. term “diagonal cut” was used our original paper published 2005 to re...

Regarding the nature of non-linear discrete placement, and in order to determine the optimal capacity of the substation, the goal in the present study will be a number of local optimum points. In this research, the problem of optimal placement posts to reduce power losses by considering Distributed Generation (DG). In formulating the objective function, geographical distribution density in the ...

OBJECTIVES Initiation of postpyloric feeding is often delayed by difficulties in placement of enteral tubes. We evaluated the effectiveness of bedside postpyloric enteral tube (PET) placement using an electromagnetic (EM)-guided device. We hypothesized that: 1) EM-guided placement of PETs would be successful more often than standard blind placement with a shorter total time to successful placem...