The problem of supervised dimensionality reduction is to combine learning a good predictor with finding a predictive structure, such as a low-dimensional representation which captures the predictive ability of the features while ignoring the “noise”. Indeed, performing dimensionality reduction simultaneously with learning a predictor often results into a better predictive performance than perfo...

Closed reduction and internal fixation of trochanteric fractures is one of the commonest procedures in orthopaedic practice. With intracapsular fractures, internal rotation is the position of choice but in the trochanteric region this may cause malunion and impair walking. Evans (1951) suggested that some comminuted trochanteric fractures were best reduced by external rotation and Horn and Wang...

Fulminant fat embolism is well recognised although uncommon. This case report of a patient developing pulmonary oedema during surgery and anaesthesia and dying four hours later is rare, unusual and disturbing. Two similar but non-fatal cases, both young males, of intraoperative pulmonary oedema associated with closed fracture reductions, where fat embolism was implicated, have been previously r...

The Photoexcited carrier lifetime (τ) and peak to valley transmission difference (ΔTp-v) in direct and indirect band gap crystals has been investigated by the use of single beam open and closed aperture z-scan technique using frequency doubled Nd:YAG laser. The peak to valley transmission difference (ΔTp-v) is found to be of the order of 10-2 in case of direct band gap crystals and of the order...

This paper suggests a decentralized adaptive sliding mode formation procedure for affine nonlinear multi-quadrotor under a fixed directed topology wherever the followers are conquered by dynamical uncertainties. Compared with the previous studies which primarily concentrated on linear single-input single-output (SISO) agents or nonlinear agents with constant control gain, the proposed method is...

We present a new and shorter proof of Stocking's result that any strongly irreducible Heegaard surface of a closed orientable triangulated 3– manifold is isotopic to an almost normal surface. We also reprove a result of Jaco and Rubinstein on normal spheres. Both proofs are based on the " reduction " technique introduced by the author.

For linear systems with pointwise or distributed delay in the inputs which are stabilized through the reduction approach, we propose a new technique of construction of Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals. These functionals allow us to establish the ISS property of the closed-loop systems relative to additive disturbances.

OBJECTIVES To investigate which treatment of maxillofacial fractures is more effective and what type of complications is the most common after observed treatment. The second aim is to explore relationship between treated facial bone fractures and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pathology. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cases with TMJ pathology in Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LUHS) in the Dep...

Fracture dislocations involving the Lisfranc joint are rare; they represent only 0.2% of all the fractures. There is no consensus about the surgical management of these lesions in the medical literature. However, both anatomical reduction and tarsometatarsal stabilization are essential for a good outcome. In this clinical study, five consecutive patients with a diagnosis of Lisfranc low-energy ...