OBJECTIVE We evaluated the long-term results of sigmoid vaginoplasty in women with gynecologic malignancies after radical pelvic surgery, with specific focus on safety and effects of the procedure on patients' sexuality and self image. METHODS This prospective study included women with gynecologic malignancies who underwent partial or complete colpectomy as part of the cancer treatment. In al...

While the exponential learning equation, indicating a gradually diminishing improvement, is one of the standard equations to describe learning, a sigmoid behavior with initially increasing then decreasing improvement has also been suggested. Herewe show that the sigmoid behavior ismathematically derived from the standard exponential equation when the independent variable of the equation is rest...

We present the case of a pneumatosis intestinalis in a 66 year-old men who was operated for a duodenal ulcer stenosis. This association is commonly found in the literature and several theories attempt to found a link, but the pathogenesis is still not clear. In the present case report. we discuss the pathogenic factors of such association.

70 100 100 100 100 h Discrete: p (n) 1 = 6 12 = 0.5 p (n) 1|1 = 3 3 = 1, p (n) 1|2 = 3 3 = 1, p (n) 1|3 = 0 3 = 0, p (n) 1|4 = 0 3 = 0 Continuous: p (n) 1 = 1 12 (σ(100) + σ(70) + . . .+ σ(−70) + σ(−100)) ≈ 0.5 p (n) 1|1 = 1 3 (σ(100) + σ(70) + σ(100)) ≈ 1 p (n) 1|2 = 1 3 (σ(100) + σ(70) + σ(100)) ≈ 1 p (n) 1|3 = 1 3 (σ(−100) + σ(−70) + σ(−100)) ≈ 0 p (n) 1|4 = 1 3 (σ(−100) + σ(−70) + σ(−100)) ...

This article proposes a new evaluation of relevance in the context of relevance theory (RT). Although RT has made substantial contributions to communication science, there are few studies that employ an experimental setting to examine RT in the real-time interpretation of utterances because the evaluation of relevance has remained inadequate for experimental examination. In the original RT, rel...

When a ow, discontinuous across a switching surface, pointsìnward' so one cannot leave, it induces a unique ow within the surface, called the sliding mode. When several such surfaces intersect, one would seek a ow within the intersection, but some diiculties arise. We explore here the extent of the ambiguity involved in this situation and then show that for a certain form of`natural mechanism f...

We present the case of a young patient with a severely comminuted, malunited, intra-articular distal radius fracture and complete disruption of the sigmoid notch. We reconstructed the malunited distal radioulnar joint by osteotomy and repositioning the displaced sigmoid notch fragments through a combined dorsal and volar approach. At the same time, we carried out a radioscapholunate arthrodesis...

The form of hidden activation functions has been always an important issue in deep neural network (DNN) design. The most common choices for acoustic modelling are the standard Sigmoid and rectified linear unit (ReLU), which are normally used with fixed function shapes and no adaptive parameters. Recently, there have been several papers that have studied the use of parameterised activation funct...

A conformity bias is, in cultural evolutionary terms, an individual-level tendency to disproportionately copy the majority. Collectively, at population-level, this individual behaviour results in a characteristic sigmoidal relationship between the frequency of the behaviour in the population and the probability to copy it (“the sigmoid”). In two recent papers (Acerbi et al. 2016, van Leeuwen et...

The authors report a very rare case of giant duplication of sigmoid colon in a 4-year-old girl successfully diagnosed and treated with a laparoscopy-assisted technique. This case shows that laparoscopy is useful in definitive diagnosis of giant cystic masses with a preoperative undiagnosed origin. Laparoscopy-assisted treatment of these benign masses may be realized, even in difficult cases suc...