PURPOSE To describe a new technique for staged hypospadias repair in which the urethral plate is divided and tubularized transverse island flap prefabricated partial distal urethral at the time of the first stage. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixteen patients with proximal hypospadias associated with severe chordee were operated on using a new staged technique. At the time of the first stage, the ur...

Multi staged programming provides a new paradigm for constructing e cient solutions to complex problems Techniques such as program generation multi level partial evaluation and run time code generation respond to the need for general purpose solutions which do not pay run time interpretive overheads This paper provides a foundation for the formal analysis of one such system We introduce a multi...

Multi-staged programming provides a new paradigm for constructing eecient solutions to complex problems. Techniques such as program generation, multi-level partial evaluation, and run-time code generation respond to the need for general purpose solutions which do not pay run-time interpretive overheads. This paper provides a foundation for the formal analysis of one such system. We introduce a ...

In this paper, epidemic spread with the staged progression model on homogeneous and heterogeneous networks is studied. First, the epidemic threshold of the simple staged progression model is given. Then the staged progression model with birth and death is also considered. The case where infectivity is a nonlinear function of the nodes’ degree is discussed, too. Finally, the analytical results a...

We consider a discrete-time, linear time varying (LTV), multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system with nu inputs and ny outputs. The system is known to be asymptotically stable, but the exact dynamics and the way they change over time are not known. We denote the vector of control inputs at time step t ∈ Z by u(t) = [u1(t), . . . , unu(t)] T , where ui(t) ∈ R, i = 1, . . . , nu are the indi...

Conventional staged ventilation systems are commonly used in agriculture to maintain interior environments near desired conditions for livestock housing and greenhouses. This paper identifies design parameters for fuzzy-based control of these staged ventilation systems. A simple non-steady state heat balance is used in conjunction with a broiler house simulation model, and coupled with a model ...