will have noticed a number of cosmetic changes made to the journal since it received its last major facelift at the beginning of 1999. Most of these changes have been designed to make the journal a more attractive “read”. But the real changes go more than skin deep. The Editorial Board has been implementing structural changes to the way that the journal is produced and disseminated, with the ai...

BACKGROUND Statistics published by The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery report a 48% increase in cosmetic procedures for 2000-2001 and a 14% increase for rhytidectomies alone. Patients aged 35 to 50 account for 30.2% of all rhytidectomies performed. Many of these patients undergo secondary rhytidectomy. OBJECTIVE We investigated differences between patients undergoing secondary ...

We describe a scenario of independent TV programme dissemination where viewers receive their own tailored channel created from content in which they’re interested. We focus primarily on the problem of distributing the content from the producers to all interested viewers. Our approach is based on a multicast scheme called implicit group messaging, realised as a distributed structured peer-to-pee...

The author provides advice on face lift incision placement to preserve ear contour and maintain normal sideburn position.

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A solid state fermentation method was used to utilize wheat straw as substrates for citric acid production by using Aspergillus niger ATCC 9142. The Plackett Burman design (PBD) of experiments was used to test the relative importance of the variables affecting production such as moisture content, age of spore, inoculum size, initial pH of substrate, methanol conce...