This focus group study examined the social experiences of 10 adolescents aged 12-17 years with Moebius Syndrome, a rare condition involving congenital facial paralysis. Content analysis revealed five themes: social engagement/disengagement, resilience/sensitivity, social support/stigma, being understood/misunderstood, and public awareness/lack of awareness of Moebius Syndrome. Compared to previ...

this decision was provided to the parents throughout many visits. Patients with Down's syndrome may have cryptorchidism or a small penis but other genital developmental abnormalities are uncommon (Hamerton, 1971). Only one case of pseudohermaphroditism in a patient with Down's syndrome has been reported previously and that was a female with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (Srivuthana, et al, 197...

This document contains the Isabelle/HOL sources underlying our paper A bytecode logic for JML and types [2], updated to Isabelle 2008. We present a program logic for a subset of sequential Java bytecode that is suitable for representing both, features found in high-level specification language JML as well as interpretations of high-level type systems. To this end, we introduce a fine-grained co...

With the advent of ever-larger FPGAs, both software algorithm developers and hardware designers must become more productive. Given the frequent lack of resources (time, money, developers) and often unmanageable complexity, today’s complex software systems require an increase in abstraction level. A new generation of methodologies that describe algorithms at a level higher than RTL are collectiv...

Conformal transformations are of much interest to modelers of physical phenomena as they provide many attractive mathematical properties such as locally preserving the isotropy of scales, invariance of the structure of the operators such as Laplacian under the transformation. It is known to atmosphere and ocean modelers as to generate coordinate transformations on the sphere using the analytic ...

The first report of the congenital facial diplegia syndrome, or Moebius syndrome, was that of Graefe (1880). Moebius reported cases in 1888 and 1892 and reviewed the prior case reports, thus gaining eponymic distinction. Since that time, some authors have broadened the definition of the Moebius syndrome, as for example, Henderson (1939), who considered some cases of congenital unilateral facial...