In the United States, about 10,000 people annually suffer spinal cord injuries (SCI). Eight thousand of those persons survive the acute injury period. In 1997, approximately 200,000 Americans were living with SCI. That number is increasing as the management of such injuries and their complications improves. Nonetheless, the life expectancies of patients with SCI remains substantially below normal.

Several methods have been developed for colpopoiesis in patients with vaginal agenesis. Nonetheless, various problems remain, including technical difficulty, invasiveness, operative stress, and poor cosmetic results, as well as the insufficient naturalness of the vagina itself. We have successfully completed colpopoiesis using the pelvic peritoneum in a laparoscopic surgery for Rokitansky-Küste...

Avionics is one kind of domain where prevention prevails. Nonetheless fails occur. Sometimes due to pilot misreacting, flooded in information. Sometimes information itself would be better verified than trusted. To avoid some kind of failure, it has been thought to add,in midst of the ARINC664 aircraft data network, a new kind of monitoring.

Several recent clinical trials for high-grade gliomas have demonstrated promising results. Nonetheless, despite improvement in survival, these patients ultimately die of tumor progression. Malignant glioma patients are profoundly immunosuppressed, and a fundamental understanding of which types of glioma have immune resistance mediated by Tregs is required for developing and initiating specific ...

• At the other extreme are U.S. states that combine high self-rated health with low health inequality (Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). These states, although “high-performing” in the U.S. context, are nonetheless less healthy and less equal than the corresponding “highperforming” countries in the European context (Austria, Denmark, France, and Spain). BY JASON BECKFIELD AND KATHE...

A formalization of the processor-set selection problem for parallel job-schedulers is presented and proven to be NP-hard in the strong sense. Nonetheless, a simple algorithm for the problem is presented, and is seen to perform well in practice when used in combination with more realistic, less uniform, cost-structures.

Protein analysis is of great importance in the nutritive value determination of food. In this context, crude protein and chemical index determination, with the essential amino acid composition, give a good estimation of protein quality. To determine the chemical index, proteins are first hydrolysed in amino acids and then these amino acids are analysed. Nonetheless, several problems are linked ...

The approach includes both theoretical and measurement components. One measurement approach exploits the very high geoacoustic information content in direct path measurements of seabed reflection and scattering. Another measurement approach, based on long-range reverberation, has much less information content but is nonetheless a powerful way to explore scales inherent in the seabed. Both kinds...

We show that long-term memory effects, present in the chaotic dispersion process generated by a meandering jet model, can be nonetheless taken into account by a first order Markov process, provided that the states of the phase space partition, chosen to describe the system, be appropriately defined.

This paper offers a demonstration of the appearance and general document features of the LaTeX_Article style sheet. Although the topics in this paper were written specifically for Publicon, it is hoped they will nonetheless be regarded with interest by the physics community. © 2004 Wolfram Research, Inc. 1 High-precision Value for the Quartic Anharmonic Oscillator Ground State