Scarring is the body’s natural response to a wound. Yet, this healing process can create significant functional and cosmetic problems. It impacts daily life and can create issues in self-esteem. Traditionally, the treatment of scars has been surgical. Despite meticulous surgical technique, scars still form. Revision may be in the form of excising the scar to create a “thinner” line, or the surg...

An e-mail arrives in your inbox from the journal to which you sent your last research paper and it has a subject title that begins ‘Decision on manuscript xxx’. Your heart leaps as you quickly find the phrase ‘we are pleased to inform you’ in the first paragraph, but then it sinks as you scroll down through the referee reports...and keep scrolling... and keep scrolling...and keep scrolling. You...

The genus Calendula belongs to tribe Calenduleae, (Asteraceae family). Itmorphologically studied for the ongoing project of the flora of Iran. Based on the herbarium studies and field observation, this genus has been revised. The study was based on fresh material from field as well as herbarium specimens. All specimens existed in the herbarium of Research Institute of...

We study the learning power of iterated belief-revision methods. Successful learning is understood as convergence to correct, i.e., true, beliefs. We focus on the issue of universality: whether or not a particular belief-revision method is able to learn everything that in principle is learnable. We provide a general framework for interpreting belief-revision policies as learning methods. We foc...

This paper discusses belief revision under uncertain inputs in the framework of possibility theory. This framework is flexible enough to account for numerical and ordinal revision procedures. It is emphasized that revision under uncertain inputs can be understood in two different ways depending on whether the input is viewed as a constraint to be enforced, or as an unreliable piece of informati...

We introduce a logic for temporal beliefs and intentions based on Shoham’s database perspective and we formalize his coherence conditions on beliefs and intentions. In order to do this we separate strong beliefs from weak beliefs. Strong beliefs are independent from intentions, while weak beliefs are obtained by adding intentions to strong beliefs and everything that follows from that. We provi...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the postoperative complications and to evaluate and stratify thyroglobulin (Tg) response associated with revision surgery for thyroid malignancy. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTINGS Academic, tertiary care center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS All patients with regionally recurrent thyroid carcinoma and who underwent revision thyroid surgery by the senior aut...

The capability of revising its beliefs upon new information in a rational and efficient way is crucial for an intelligent agent. The classic AGM theory studies mathematically idealized models of belief revision in two aspects: the properties (i.e., the AGM postulates) a rational revision operator should satisfy; and how to construct concrete revision operators. In scenarios where new informatio...