OBJECTIVE A collaborative project between Hull CHCP and Smith and Nephew wound management, which sought to enhance practice efficiency, specifically in relation to the optimisation of dressing change frequency. The project involved the use of a new foam dressing (Allevyn Life, Smith & Nephew, Hull) designed to manage wound exudate more effectively, be more acceptable to patients by masking stai...

We prove that octants are cover-decomposable into multiple coverings, i.e., for any k there is an m(k) such that any m(k)-fold covering of any subset of the space with a nite number of translates of a given octant can be decomposed into k coverings. As a corollary, we obtain that any m(k)-fold covering of any subset of the plane with a nite number of homothetic copies of a given triangle can be...

We discuss the existence of vertex disjoint path coverings with prescribed ends for the n-dimensional hypercube with or without deleted vertices. Depending on the type of the set of deleted vertices and desired properties of the path coverings we establish the minimal integer m such that for every n ≥ m such path coverings exist. Using some of these results, for k ≤ 4, we prove Locke’s conjectu...

In this paper we show that periodic Takahashi 3-manifolds are cyclic coverings of the connected sum of two lens spaces (possibly cyclic coverings of S), branched over knots. When the base space is a 3-sphere, we prove that the associated branching set is a two-bridge knot of genus one, and we determine its type. Moreover, a geometric cyclic presentation for the fundamental groups of these manif...

We prove that octants are cover-decomposable, i.e., any 12-fold covering of any subset of the space with a finite number of translates of a given octant can be decomposed into two coverings. As a corollary, we obtain that any 12-fold covering of any subset of the plane with a finite number of homothetic copies of a given triangle can be decomposed into two coverings. We also show that any 12-fo...

We prove that two automata with multiplicity in Z are equivalent, i.e. define the same rational series, if and only if there is a sequence of Z-coverings, co-Z-coverings, and circulations of −1, which transforms one automaton into the other. Moreover, the construction of these transformations is effective. This is obtained by combining two results: the first one relates coverings to conjugacy o...

A planar set P is said to be cover-decomposable if there is a constant k = k(P ) such that every k-fold covering of the plane with translates of P can be decomposed into two coverings. It is known that open convex polygons are cover-decomposable. Here we show that closed, centrally symmetric convex polygons are also cover-decomposable. We also show that an infinite-fold covering of the plane wi...

In this note we improve our upper bound given in [7] by showing that every 9-fold covering of a point set in R by finitely many translates of an octant decomposes into two coverings, and our lower bound by a construction for a 4-fold covering that does not decompose into two coverings. We also prove that certain dynamic interval coloring problems are equivalent to the above question. The same b...