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Heavily calcified annuli increase the incidence of complications after prosthetic valve replacement-heart block, separation of the aorta or the atrium from the ventricle, late aneurysm formation, paravalvular leak, and haemolysis. An ultrasonic calculus-disintegrator has been developed to remove calcific deposits. The instrument is portable, robust, easily sterilized, inexpensive, and provides ...

We realize the CFT with target a lens space SU(2)/Zl as a simple current construction. This allows us to compute the boundary states and the annuli coefficients, and in particular to study the B-type branes, in purely algebraic terms. Several issues, like the appearance of fractional branes and symmetry breaking boundary conditions, can be addressed more directly in this approach than in a more...

We prove that the Julia set J(f) of at most finitely renormalizable unicritical polynomial f : z 7→ z + c with all periodic points repelling is locally connected. (For d = 2 it was proved by Yoccoz around 1990.) It follows from a priori bounds in a modified Principle Nest of puzzle pieces. The proof of a priori bounds makes use of new analytic tools developed in [KL] that give control of moduli...

Two American Mink populations were examined using canine tooth cementum annuli to assess age structure of harvested segments of the populations. Trapping mortality was different between these two populations. Comparisons are made with a Montana Mink population. I propose that forbearer managers can readily assess relative harvest pressures by analyzing the age structure of a Mink population, an...