The frequency of re-excision varies due to the institution’s definition of what is an acceptable margin. Many strategies or techniques have been looked at to reduce the incidence of positive margins, to include but not limited to: intraoperative MRI, cavity shave excisions, intraoperative margin assessment by frozen section, and the recently FDA approved MarginProbe System that has the ability ...

Objective To assess the impact of type surgery for colorectal endometriosis—rectal shaving or discoid resection segmental resection—on complications and surgical outcomes. Data Sources We performed a systematic review all English- French-language full-text articles addressing management endometriosis, compared postoperative according to technique by meta-analysis. The PubMed, Clinical Trials.go...

This paper develops and estimates a model of college basketball teams’ search for scoring opportunities, to provide a benchmark of the winning margin distributions that should arise if teams’ only goal is to win. I estimate the model’s structural parameters using first-half playby-play data from college games and simulate the estimated model’s predicted winning margin distributions. Teams’ opti...

Utility distribution grids in the US are experiencing proliferation of Distributed Generation (DG) largely due to the need to comply with goals set by Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), the availability of economic incentives, and technology cost reductions. Interconnecting properly-sized DG units at strategic locations in the distribution grid may lead to important benefits and improve power...