After birth the umbilicus is the only naturally formed visible scar on the body. To reconstruct a neo-umbilicus following abdominoplasty various local interposition flaps have been described to circumvent a circular scar contracture and to recreate a superior hood. The additional scarring with these techniques can give an operated look to the neo-umbilicus. The importance of gravity in the form...

Address correspondence to: Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, Vanderbilt University, 1215 21st Ave. So., #8310, Medical Center East, So. Tower, Nashville, TN. 37232-8242. [email protected] Determination of hearing sensitivity for infants below 5–6 months of age depends on objective test methods. Objective appro...

This paper provides an illustrated key to about 40 species of Frankliniella recorded from Brazil, together with notes about each species. Two new synonyms are established: Frankliniella longispinosa Moulton is a synonym of Frankliniella varipes Moulton; Frankliniella rodeos Moulton is a synonym of Frankliniella gemina Bagnall, all described originally from South America. One new species is desc...

In this article we investigate the LBB condition for axisymmetric flow problems. Specifically, the sufficiency condition for approximating pairs to satisfy the LBB condition established by Stenberg in the Cartesian coordinate setting is presented for the cylindrical coordinate setting. For the cylindrical coordinate setting, the Taylor-Hood (k = 2) and conforming Crouzeix-Raviart elements are s...

This review discusses two distinct, yet related, mechanisms of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibition: Calorie restriction mimicry (CRM) and pro-ketogenic effect, which may explain their cardiovascular benefits. We term these adaptive CRM and pro-ketogenic effects of SGLT2 inhibition, the Robin Hood hypothesis. In English history, Robin Hood was a "good person," who stole from the ri...

Late in 1995 we organized a hyperspectral data acquisition using the Naval Research Laboratory’s Hyperspectral Digital Imagery Collection Experiment sensor system over Fort Hood, Texas. This acquisition resulted in hyperspectral data with a nominal 2 meter ground sample distance collected with 210 spectral samples per pixel. This paper describes current quantitative classification results for m...

Divergence paralysis is characterized by acquired horizontal homonymous diplopia when viewing distant objects but without limitation of ocular movements (Bielschowsky, I935). Although raised intracranial pressure is a significant aetiological factor in the production of divergence paralysis (Bender and Savitsky, I940; Chamlin and Davidoff, I950, 1951), there has been much diversity of opinion a...

Enhanced Heat Release Rate (HRR) methodology has been extended to the Mass Loss Calorimeter (MLC) and the Modified Schlyter flame spread test to evaluate fire retardant effectiveness used on wood based materials. Modifications to MLC include installation of thermopile on the chimney walls to correct systematic errors to the sensible HRR calculations to account for radiant energy losses to the c...

BACKGROUND Hatchery-induced selection and direct effects of the culture environment can both cause captively bred fish populations to survive at low rates and behave unnaturally in the wild. New approaches to fish rearing in conservation hatcheries seek to reduce hatchery-induced selection, maintain genetic resources, and improve the survival of released fish. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS T...