Pigmented Bowen's disease (pBD) is an uncommon in situ squamous cell carcinoma of the skin usually presenting as a dark scaly plaque involving chronically exposed sites, which is not uncommonly mistaken for other similar pigmented lesions, such as melanoma, pigmented basal cell carcinoma or seborrheic keratosis [1,2]. Dermoscopy has been proven to improve its diagnosis by showing several findin...

PBD { THE KEY TO SERVICE ROBOT PROGRAMMING HOLGER FRIEDRICH, MICHAEL KAISER and R UDIGER DILLMANN Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems & Robotics (IPR) University of Karlsruhe D-76128 Karlsruhe,Germany E-Mail: [email protected]. Abstract. Currently, an important topic of robotic research is the design and development of `service robots'. These devices shall work autonom...

Service robots require interactive programming interfaces that allow users without programming experience to easily instruct the robots. Systems following the Programming by Demonstration (PbD) paradigm that were developed within the last years are getting closer to this goal. However, most of these systems lack the possibility for the user to supervise and in uence the process of program gener...

STUDY DESIGN In a human cadaveric burst fracture model with and without longitudinal ligament damage, the amount of anterior and posterior bone displacement (ABD, PBD) during balloon vertebroplasty after pedicle-screw instrumentation was investigated quantitatively. OBJECTIVES To investigate, in a burst fracture model with and without longitudinal ligament damage, the amount of ABD, PBD, and ...

Data cleaning and manipulation is an expensive and tedious process that consumes valuable time and resources. If an end-user needs to manipulate a large amount of data, he has three primary options: record a macro, write a transformation program, or perform manual manipulations on the data. Recording a macro with a fixed series of actions can be simple, but does not generalize well and is not s...

In this work a suspect-screening approach was employed to assess the polymers and plastic additives of micro(nano)plastics (NPL/MPLs) size ranges from nm range 20 ?m present in seawater top 5 cm Mar Menor lagoon during two sampling campaigns (summer winter), as well other potentially adsorbed compounds onto particles surfaces suspended material. The identification NPL/MPLs has been based on cha...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an important instrument to boost the performance of business processes. In this paper, the Product-Based Design (PBD) method is presented that is especially suitable to reengineer processes that support information-intensive products such as bonds, mortgages, and loans. Aside from the treatment of its theoretical properties and the differences with prevai...

Post operatively she developed an air and bile leak. A subsequent ERCP was performed and the plastic biliary stent removed from the bile duct. There was a suspicion of contrast in the bronchial tree on this examination. A further CT scan demonstrated a pleural effusion, diaphragmatic disruption and a collection under the diaphragm consistent with bronchobiliary fistula. Her bilioptysis settled ...