BACKGROUND Major liver trauma has a high mortality because of immediate exsanguination and a delayed morbidity from septicemia, peritonitis, biliary fistulae, and delayed secondary hemorrhage. We evaluated laser soldering using liquid albumin for welding liver injuries. METHODS Fourteen lacerations (6 x 2 cm) and 13 nonanatomic resection injuries (raw surface, 8 x 2 cm) were repaired. An 805-...

In this note we revisit the discussion on minimal repair in heterogeneous populations in Finkelstein (2004). We consider the corresponding stochastic intensities (intensity processes) for items in heterogeneous populations given available information on their operational history, i.e. the failure (repair) times and the time since the last failure (repair). Based on the improved definitions, the...

The paper presents a mathematical model of the system repairs and preventive replacements by age city buses. was developed using theory semi-Markov processes. In developed, four types bus renewal processes are considered three corrective replacement. Corrective in two types: minimal (repairs carried out Technical Service units) perfect at stations Station). models restoration systems that use w...

In the context of consistent query answering (CQA) from inconsistent databases, the notion of repair is fundamental. A repair is a new database instance that minimally differs from the original, inconsistent database, but does satisfy the integrity constraints. Minimality usually refers to a minimal set of tuples on which the two instances differ. In this paper we reexamine the process of corre...

Answer set programming is a form of declarative programming that can be used to elegantly model various systems. When the available knowledge about these systems is imperfect, however, the resulting programs can be inconsistent. In such cases, it is of interest to find plausible repairs, i.e. plausible modifications to the original program that ensure the existence of at least one answer set. A...

INTRODUCTION: Rotator cuff tears are a very common source of pain and loss of function of the shoulder. As arthroscopic instrumentation and repair techniques have evolved, many studies have demonstrated success in repairing rotator cuff tears using these arthroscopic techniques alone compared with an open repair method. Despite these successful clinical outcomes, both open and arthroscopic rota...

A relational database is inconsistent if it does not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints. Nevertheless, it is likely that most of the data in it is consistent with the constraints. In this paper we apply logic programming based on answer sets to the problem of retrieving consistent information from a possibly inconsistent database. Since consistent information persists from the origina...

We present STIR (STrongly Incremental Repair detection), a system that detects speech repairs and edit terms on transcripts incrementally with minimal latency. STIR uses information-theoretic measures from n-gram models as its principal decision features in a pipeline of classifiers detecting the different stages of repairs. Results on the Switchboard disfluency tagged corpus show utterance-fin...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the association between volume and outcome found in major surgery also holds true for a minor operation. DESIGN Review of outcomes after hernia surgery in Sweden. SETTING Surgical units registered with the Swedish hernia register, which in 2004 covered about 95% of all hernia operations in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS 86,409 patients over 15 years, who underwent 96,...