INTRODUCTION Loss of penile length is a recognized and common consequence of Peyronie's disease (PD). Traction therapy (TT+) has been reported to decrease post-op length loss as well as increase stretched penile length (SPL) prior to surgery. AIM The aim of this study was to study patient outcomes with penile length change and patient satisfaction after surgery following tunica albuginea plic...

Introduction: The survival of an implant system is affected by the choice of antirotational design, which can include an external or internal hex. Implant success also is affected by the maintenance of the crestal bone around implants. The aim of present study was to evaluate the crestal bone loss and clinical parameters related to bone loss in patients loaded with an external or internal hex 3...

The effect of filament twist pitch length on AC-loss induced normal zone propagation in adiabatic coils wound with composite NbTi superconductor was investigated. Two test coils were constructed. They were identical in shape, dimensions, and other parameters, the exception being the conductor's filament twist pitch length. One had a twist pitch length of 10 mm and the other had a twist pitch le...

Predicting transmission loss in the ocean often strongly depends on the bottom loss. Bottom loss can be estimated using ocean noise and vertical array beam-forming [Harrison and Simons, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 1377-1389 (2002)]. With finite length arrays, the bottom loss estimate using this method can be smoothed due to beam widths. This paper describes how the noise coherence function can be ...

This paper investigates the coding of change-points in the information-theoretic Minimum Message Length (MML) framework. Changepoint coding regions affect model selection and parameter estimation in problems such as time series segmentation and decision trees. The Minimum Message Length (MML) and Minimum Description Length (MDL78) approaches to change-point problems have been shown to perform w...

Spontaneous and double-strand break (DSB)-induced allelic recombination in yeast was investigated in crosses between ura3 heteroalleles inactivated by an HO site and a +1 frameshift mutation, with flanking markers defining a 3.4-kbp interval. In some crosses, nine additional phenotypically silent RFLP mutations were present at approximately 100-bp intervals. Increasing heterology from 0.2 to 1%...

This paper examines orthonormal regression and wavelet denoising within the Minimum Message Length (MML) framework. A criterion for hard thresholding that naturally incorporates parameter shrinkage is derived from a hierarchical Bayes approach. Both parameters and hyperparameters are jointly estimated from the data directly by minimisation of a two-part message length, and the threshold implied...

Nonsyndromic low-frequency sensorineural hearing loss (LFSNHL) is an unusual type of hearing loss that affects frequencies at 2,000 Hz and below. Recently, we reported five different heterozygous missense mutations in the Wolfram syndrome gene, WFS1, found to be responsible for LFSNHL in six families. One of the five mutations, A716T, may be a common cause of LFSNHL, as it has been reported in ...