The aim of this study was to determine the effects of appearance-related surgery on psychosocial functioning during adolescence. To this end, changes in bodily attitudes and appearance-related burdens in adolescents undergoing corrective (for aesthetic deformities) and reconstructive (for congenital or acquired deformities) surgery were compared with those in a general population sample.A group...

o determine the effects of uncontrolled long-term dormant storage on plastic encapsulated microcircuits, the Applied Physics Laboratory evaluated 92 commercial samples, some as old as 28 years, from multiple manufacturers and technologies. The presumption is that if old parts have not degraded after 20 or 30 years of uncontrolled long-term dormant storage, then vastly superior current products ...

The expressions for the free energy in two recent formulations of strain gradient plasticity are extended to include the locked-in strain energy around statistically stored dislocations. This is accomplished by using the strain dependent factor h(ep), which represents the fraction of the rate of plastic work converted into heat in accordance with the latent heat measurements from classical meta...

Thermo-deformable plastic films experience an optical birefringence phenomenon when they are subjected to mechanical strain, this phenomenon can be described by color fringes behavior observed in sequences of images acquired through photoelasticity assemblies. This paper proposes a temporary morphological analysis that color fringes experience when the plastic film is deformed. For the image an...

This paper is on the elasto-plastic analysis of plane stress problems. A five-parameter yield surface is presented. This yield criterion uses associate flow along with mixed hardening rule. The analytical formulations are written and related computer program for non-linear analysis is prepared. Finally, based on the formulations, numerical examples are solved.

X-ray diffraction measurement in the bulk of engineering components allows evaluation of lattice spacing variation by application of Bragg law and hence, by comparison with a strain-free reference specimen, computation of elastic strains and stresses. Diffraction peak position is related to average elastic strain within the scattering grains, whilst diffraction peak shape is related to crystall...

How to cite this article: Gupta A, Gupta S, Kumar A, Jha MK, Bhattacharaya S, Tiwari VK. Novel use of preputial flap. Indian J Plast Surg 2017;50:112-4. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credite...