BACKGROUND Serial tissue expansion is performed to remove giant congenital melanocytic nevi. However, there have been no studies comparing the expansion rate between the subsequent and preceding expansions. In this study, we analyzed the rate of expansion in accordance with the number of surgeries, expander location, expander size, and sex. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed in pe...

A multi-variable optimization program has been developed to investigate the performance of Wet Organic Rankine Cycles for low temperature heat recovery applications. This cycle model contains a detailed thermodynamic model of the twin-screw expander, and the methods used to match the operation of the expander to the requirements of the cycle are described. The capability of the cycle model has ...

Prepectoral breast reconstruction is increasingly popular. This study compares complications between 2 subpectoral and 1 prepectoral breast reconstruction technique. METHODS Between 2008 and 2015, 294 two-staged expander breast reconstructions in 213 patients were performed with 1 of 3 surgical techniques: (1) Prepectoral, (2) subpectoral with acellular dermal matrix (ADM) sling ("Classic"), ...

Expander graphs are useful in the design and analysis of communication networks. Mukhopadhyay et al. introduced a method to generate a family of expander graphs based on nongroup two predecessor single attractor Cellular Automata(CA). In this paper we propose a method to generate a family of expander graphs based on 60/102 Null Boundary CA(NBCA) which is a group CA. The spectral gap generated b...

If ALIGNs or NOTIFYs are corrupted, but they are replaced in the data stream by expander(s) with valid ERROR primitives, the elasticity buffer of an expander or the frame recipient could overflow at a later time. If the expander determines that its elasticity buffer is getting full and it is due an ALIGN, it should be allowed to choose to delete the invalid dword (assuming it might have been an...

In the previous lecture we saw the definitions of eigenvalue expanders, edge expanders, and vertex expanders for d-regular graphs. To recap, in an eigenvalue expander, all except the first eigenvalue of the graph’s adjacency matrix are bounded below d. In an edge expander, every subset of vertices of size below a certain threshold has a large number of edges “going out” of the subset. And in a ...

Ancient corpora contain various multilingual patterns. This imposes numerous problems on their manual annotation and automatic processing. We introduce a lexicon building system, called Lexicon Expander, that has an integrated language detection module, Language Detection (LD) Toolkit. The Lexicon Expander post-processes the output of the LD Toolkit which leads to the improvement of f-score and...

In this lecture, we will focus on expander graphs (also called expanders), which are pseudoran-dom objects in a more restricted sense than what we saw in the last two lectures. The reader is also referred to the monograph [1] and the tutorial slides [2] for more detailed surveys of today's topics. Expander graphs are universally useful in computer science and have many applications in de-random...

In this paper, the combination of equalization and turbo decoding is studied. In the iterative decoding of a product code in block turbo coding system, the equalization process is performed within the iteration loop. The present study aims to investigate the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) incorporated in the iterative decoding. Simulation results show that the more severe the channel interfe...