Reconstruction of a facial defect is a complex modality either surgically or prosthetically, depending on the site, size, etiology, severity, age, and the patient’s expectation. Loss of an auricle, in the presence of an auditory canal, affects hearing, because the auricle gathers sound and directs it into the canal. The auricle acts as a resonator to slightly amplify lower frequency sound...

An arithmetic read-once formula (ROF for short) is a formula (a circuit whose underlying graph is a tree) in which the operations are {+,×} and each input variable labels at most one leaf. A preprocessed ROF (PROF for short) is a ROF in which we are allowed to replace each variable xi with a univariate polynomial Ti(xi). We obtain a deterministic non-adaptive reconstruction algorithm for PROFs,...

The periodic Jacobi inverse eigenvalue problem concerns the reconstruction of a matrix from prescribed spectral data. In Minkowski spaces, with given signature operator H=diag(1,1,…,1,?1), corresponding is pseudo-Jacobi matrix. for such matrices consists in matrices, same order and H. this paper we solve by applying Sylvester’s identity Householder transformation. solution number algorithm are ...

extended abstract 1. introduction today, improving and increasing the inhabitant environment quality is the main purpose of the civil planner policies. in this study, the improper location of the physical elements and the urban land uses, the inefficient street network, the compact urban fabric, the high urban density, the improper condition of infrastructures, and the lack of civil open spaces...

Objectives: It has been suggested that mental illness threatens identity and sense of self when one’s personal story is displaced by dominant illness narratives focussing on deficit and dysfunction. One role of therapy, therefore, is to allow individuals to re-story their life in a more positive way which facilitates the reconstruction of a meaningful identity and sense of self. This research e...

In face-to-face communications, to avoid sanctions and disapproval from others, people are more likely to hide negative aspects of their true self (such as socially undesirable personalities, minds, beliefs and consciousness) to avoid conflict with social norms and laws. The anonymity of cyberspace provides people a unique environment to behave more freely and openly with less restraint from th...

This paper presents findings based on over 40 hrs of rich, phenomenological narrative interview data in which five Syrian refugees describe their experiences transitioning to a new life Brazil. Using the Social Identity Model Change (SIMIC) as framework for examining relationship between period vulnerability, multiple social identities and wellbeing, interviews were combined with “talking stone...