PURPOSE To retrospectively assess the clinical utility in ureteroscopy (URS) planning of cumulative stone diameter (CSD), which does not account for stone width or depth, as a predictor of URS outcome and compare it with stone volume. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with renal stones treated at a single institute by flexible URS were retrospectively evaluated. To assess the clinical utility of...

We want to build robots capable of rich social interactions with humans, including natural communication and cooperation. This work explores how imitation as a social learning and teaching process may be applied to building socially intelligent robots, and summarizes our progress toward building a robot capable of learning how to imitate facial expressions from simple imitative games played wit...

Living vertebrates are divided into those that possess a fully formed and fully mineralised skeleton (gnathostomes) versus those that possess only unmineralised cartilaginous rudiments (cyclostomes). As such, extinct phylogenetic intermediates of these living lineages afford unique insights into the evolutionary assembly of the vertebrate mineralised skeleton and its canonical tissue types. Ext...

all odds by Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya at the beginning of the last century. After a decade of preparations, the university’s foundation stone was laid on Basant Panchimi day, 1916. The vision behind it was unique, amazingly ambitious, and futuristic. It planned to focus on holistic human resource development for new nation building, adopting a strategy featuring a unique blend of tra...

Gordon Allport (1954) has described the attitude concept as "the primary building stone in the edifice of social psychology [p. 45]," and the extensive attitude literature in the past 20 years supports this contention. Stimulated primarily by the cognitive consistency theories, thousands of pages have been written recently on attitude formation and change. One possible reason for the popularity...

The present study is concerned with the assessment of the relative resistance of a monumental dolomitic limestone (Laspra – Spain) used as building material in stone monuments and submitted to artificial ageing by SO2 dry deposition in the presence of humidity. To investigate the protection efficiency of different polymeric coatings, three commercially available siloxane-based oligomers (Lotexa...

Just as scientific articles are used as a way of sharing knowledge in scientific communities, stories are used as a way of transferring knowledge within African American communities. This article uses the story and metaphor of Stone Soup to illustrate the Healthy African American Families' (HAAF) Community Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) method of engaging diverse partners to address he...

Abstract Arucas Stone ( Piedra de ) is a welded tuff quarried in the town of Arucas, on island Gran Canaria Canary Archipelago. This rock has been for centuries, not only building but also many other purposes, such as manufacturing water cisterns or conduits, and especially carving. The quarrying economic activity related to this stone have profoundly shaped history economy city terms extractio...

The production of concretes with a hard hardening rate is not feasible without the use modifying additives. development chemical industry has led to emergence large number additives different properties. Some increase frost and corrosion resistance, strength building materials, while others affect setting concrete water-cement ratio. Of greatest interest joint work in composition cement stone. ...