BACKGROUND A ten-year, single-surgeon study of 37 patients from 1993 to 2003 who underwent fat injections to improve contour deformities in their reconstructed breasts was reviewed. METHODS Fat was harvested from elsewhere in the body using a low-pressure syringe lipoaspiration system, washed gently with saline, and injected into depressions along the margins of reconstructed breasts. Blinded...

BACKGROUND The objective was to determine secular trends in unintentional fall-related hospitalizations in people aged 65 years and older in the United States. MATERIALS Data were obtained from a nationally representative sample of emergency department visits from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2008, available through the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program. Th...

Asia Pacific is experiencing multiple dynamics of urbanisation, economic growth, poverty and environmental deterioration. It is the largest region with more than 60 percent of the world population. About 43 percent of the total population in the region live in urban areas, of which 40 percent live in slums and substandard conditions. In the past 30 years, the urban population in Asia Pacific ha...

Shield metal arc welding on the high strength low alloy steels in pipelines to transport natural gas from Iran is of great importance. In this article the effects of annealing heat treatment on properties of multi pass welding in different situations (6-4:30 , 4:30-3 , 3-1:30 , 1:30-12) with 36 in outside diameter is evaluated by chemical,  metallography, tensile, toughness and hardness. Tensil...

Shield metal arc welding on the high strength low alloy steels in pipelines to transport natural gas from Iran is of great importance. In this article the effects of annealing heat treatment on properties of multi pass welding in different situations (6-4:30 , 4:30-3 , 3-1:30 , 1:30-12) with 36 in outside diameter is evaluated by chemical,  metallography, tensile, toughness and hardness. Tensil...

BACKGROUND Length of stay is an important indicator of quality of care in Emergency Departments (ED). This study explores the duration of patients' visits to the ED for which they are treated and released (T&R). METHODS Retrospective data analysis and multivariate regression analysis were conducted to investigate the duration of T&R ED visits. Duration for each visit was computed by taking th...

Vertex Cover (VC): A vertex cover in an undirected graph G = (V,E) is a subset of vertices V ′ ⊆ V such that every edge in G has at least one endpoint in V ′. The vertex cover problem (VC) is: given an undirected graph G and an integer k, does G have a vertex cover of size k? Dominating Set (DS): A dominating set in a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of vertices V ′ such that every vertex in the gra...

in order to evaluate the effect of water deficit and different fertilizer levels on yield and some agro-morphological characteristics of moldavian balm, a split plot experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications at the research farm of shahrekord university during 2013-2014 growing season. main factor was three levels of irrigation regimes including: 100...