While a plethora of techniques are available for ventral hernia repair (VHR), these may fall short in the face of chronic near-total loss of abdominal domain. The Wittmann patch (Star Surgical, Burlington, WI) has been described in the literature as an acute method of maintaining abdominal wall integrity with planned re-laparotomy. However, we demonstrate that it is also an effective adjunct to...

AMCP was requested by the Air Navigation Commission to undertake the activities as per part of a) and b) of this recommendation with regard to air-ground digital links while taking due account of the work carried out by other ICAO bodies. Further work, as requested in parts c) and d) of this recommendation, was deferred until the results of the assessment and the overview of performance charact...

To evaluate lung function responses to short-term indoor PM1 and PM2.5 concentrations, we conducted a panel study of healthy schoolchildren aged 13-14 years. The following lung function parameters FVC, FEV1, PEF, and mid expiratory flows MEF25, MEF50, and MEF75 were measured in 141 schoolchildren of the secondary school in Wroclaw, Poland in years 2009-2010. On days when spirometry tests were c...

This paper aims to measure poverty dynamics in Vietnam using the most recent Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) from 2010. Since there are no panel data between the 2010 VHLSS and the previous studies, this study uses the asset approach to estimate the proportion of structurally and stochastically poor. It is found that the proportion of structurally and stochastically poor is 11....