Background Although the thread-lifting technique for sagging faces has become more common and popular, medical literature evaluating its effects is scarce. Studies on its long-term prognosis are particularly uncommon. Patients and methods One hundred individuals who had previously undergone insoluble thread-lifting were retrospectively investigated. Photos in frontal and oblique views from th...

A large-scale field experiment with different management options (free-range grazing, onetime cutting, additional disturbances and their interactions) was carried out in a continental, dry heathland. Within the framework of the experiment seed production and germination ability of over-aged Calluna individuals as well as specific safe site conditions were investigated to reveal restricting fact...

Software rejuvenation is a technique for software fault tolerance which involves occasionally stopping the executing software, \cleaning" the \internal state" and restarting. This cleanup is done at desirable times during execution on a preventive basis so that unplanned failures, which result in higher costs compared to planned stopping, are avoided. Since during rejuvenation, the software is ...

The approach to facial rejuvenation continues to evolve. For decades, the primary focus on rejuvenation has centered on modalities such as skin care, skin resurfacing, soft-tissue augmentation, and surgical intervention. A better understanding of the physiologic changes that occur with facial aging lends itself to new approaches and techniques that are mindful of the causes. As animation has sh...

introduction autologous plasma-rich platelet (prp) is a human platelet concentrated product which is in low volume of plasma. using prp in rejuvenation and resolution of some cosmetic problems has been already popular in many countries and also in iran. as no study performed in this field in iran and regarding the high prevalence of using prp in society with no validate references in the case o...

People tend to prefer noninvasive or minimally invasive methods of facial rejuvenation, especially when it involves their face, which is the hallmark of a person's identity and impossible to hide. It is widely known that brow ptosis gives the face a "tired look" and also accentuates deformities of the upper eyelid. Most people who are interested in facial rejuvenation may not accept even a mino...

BACKGROUND The use of visible or near infrared spectral light alone for the purpose of skin rejuvenation has been previously reported. A method of light emitting diode (LED) photo rejuvenation incorporating a combination of these wavelengths and thus compounding their distinct stimulation of cellular components is proposed.Objective. To assess the efficacy and local tolerability of combination ...

The reliability and availability of a cloud-based system play an important role in evaluating its system performance. Due to the promised high reliability of physical facilities provided for cloud services, software faults have become a major factor for failures of cloud-based systems. In this paper, we focus on the software aging phenomenon where system performance may be progressively degrade...

BACKGROUND Rejuvenation of the aging chest is important to prevent noticeable disparities between the treated skin of the face and that of the untreated chest. OBJECTIVE To compare a high-density thulium fiber laser (TFL)-based protocol for the rejuvenation of the aging chest with intense pulsed light (IPL). METHODS AND MATERIALS We conducted a retrospective chart review comparing patients ...

In the research on software aging and rejuvenation, one of the most important questions is when to trigger the rejuvenation action. And it is useful to predict the system resource utilization state efficiently for determining the rejuvenation time. In this paper, we propose software aging prediction model based on extreme learning machine (ELM) for a real VOD system. First, the data on the para...