From March 1995 through March 2000, we treated patients with the laparoscopic approach who had emergent and urgent indications for surgery. We report a series of 17 procedures in 16 patients in the acute category excluding those with active bleeding. One case of morbidity (DVT) but no moralities occurred, with 3 of 17 patients converted to an open approach. The postoperative course and subseque...

BACKGROUND We have previously reported the results of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of the antero-medial globus pallidus interna (GPi) for severe Tourette Syndrome (TS) in 11 patients. We extend this case series to 17 patients and a longer follow-up to a maximum of 46 months. METHODS 17 patients (14 male; mean age 29.1 years, range 17-51 years) with severe and medically intractable TS were imp...

nocardiosis has been reported increasingly in recent two decades, probably due to improvement in isolation of the organism and increased burden of immune compromised patients. nocardia occasionally has been reported in healthy people. a case series of definitive nocardiosis (2002 to 2010), clinical characteristics, underlying diseases, immune status and in-patient outcome were studied in a tert...

1. The hyperreals 3 1.1. Basic facts about the ordered real field 3 1.2. The nonstandard extension 4 1.3. Arithmetic in the hyperreals 5 1.4. The structure of N∗ 7 1.5. More practice with transfer 8 1.6. Problems 9 2. Logical formalisms for nonstandard extensions 10 2.1. Approach 1: The compactness theorem 11 2.2. Approach 2: The ultrapower construction 12 2.3. Problems 16 3. Sequences and seri...

Cuticular hydrocarbons of an ectoparasitic wasp attacking two beetle hosts have been identified and examined for the influence of age, gender, mating status, and host on hydrocarbon composition. The 37 wasp hydrocarbons identified consisted of a series of n-alkanes (C16 to C33), 3-, 5-, 9-, 10-, 11-, and 12-methyl alkanes and a series of Z-7 and Z-9 monoenes (C23:1 to C27:1). One C25:2 diene wa...

The physiological demands of weight-pulling dogs have yet to be investigated. Two groups of competitive weight-pulling dogs both underwent two identical pull series 3 h apart. The control group (n 8) was compared with a group fed a rapidly digestible carbohydrate and protein supplement after the first pull series (n 9). Blood was drawn before and after each pull series as well as at 15 and 30 m...

Rule-based forecasting (RBF) is an expert system that uses features of time series to select and weight extrapolation techniques. Thus, it is dependent upon the identification of features of the time series. Judgmental coding of these features is expensive and the reliability of the ratings is modest. We developed and automated heuristics to detect six features that had previously been judgment...

Continued fractions (CFs) play a fundamental role in many investigations due to its applications to diverse fields like number theory, special functions, approximations, moment problems, digital networks, statistics, and signal processing. Their importance has grown further with the advent of fast computing facilities. The problem of converting a continued fraction into a power series is import...

We start by considering crosses between inbred lines. The analysis of such crosses illustrates many of the fundamental features of QTL mapping without the additional complications that arise with outbred populations. Although inbred line crosses are uncommon in animal breeding (outside of rats and mice), crosses between widely-differing lines are often treated as an inbred line cross, as we ass...

This paper describes LIMSI’s submissions to the news shared task at WMT’17 for English into Czech and Latvian, as well as related experiments. This year’s novelties consist in the use of a neural machine translation system with a factored output predicting simultaneously a lemma decorated with morphological information and a fine-grained part-of-speech. Such a type of system drew our attention ...