OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to validate the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) criteria for adjuvant treatment in a different cohort of patients and to evaluate the simplified risk criteria predicting the prognosis and tailoring adjuvant treatment in patients with surgically staged endometrial cancer. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 261 consecutive patients with surg...

We investigate several two-dimensional guillotine cutting stock problems and their variants in which orthogonal rotations are allowed. We first present two dynamic programming based algorithms for the Rectangular Knapsack (RK) problem and its variants in which the patterns must be staged. The first algorithm solves the recurrence formula proposed by Beasley; the second algorithm —for staged pat...

OBJECTIVES The authors sought to compare the effectiveness of the different revascularization strategies in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients with multivessel coronary artery disease undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). BACKGROUND Recent randomized trials have suggested that multivessel complete revascularization at the time of primary percuta...

Segmental long bone defects resulting from injury or surgical intervention are difficult problems to manage. Amputation, external fixators, vascularized fibular grafts, acute limb shortening, and various quantities of allograft and autograft have historically been the mainstays of treatment. Recently, the use of osteoinductive substances such as recombinant bone morphogenic proteins, and osteoc...

There are still controversies on the management and outcome of open Lisfranc injury in available studies. This study evaluates the staged management of Lisfranc injury and its complications.Patients who received a staged strategy for open Lisfranc injury were reviewed.One patient with degloving injury suffered from partial skin and hallux necrosis which was treated by debridement, hallux amputa...

Modern servers typically process request streams by assigning a worker thread to a request, and rely on a round robin policy for context-switching. Although this programming paradigm is intuitive, it is oblivious to the execution state and ignores each software module’s affinity to the processor caches. As a result, resumed threads of execution suffer additional delays due to conflict and compu...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 are two main models for software process assessment and improvement. Both models have staged and continuous representations but these are different. Continuous representations of the models propose the different sets of processes (process areas). The differences of staged representations are even more essential. CMMI staged representation is based on the ideas of a classi...

PURPOSE We report the outcome of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair with and without cardiac disease. In patients with cardiac disease, we compared staged procedures and simultaneous operations. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 217 patients underwent scheduled AAA repair from 1994 to 2005. When the AAA with cardiac disease was 5.0 cm or less in diameter, we performed a staged procedure. Wh...

Modern servers typically process request streams by assigning a worker thread to a request, and rely on a round robin policy for context-switching. Although this programming paradigm is intuitive, it is oblivious to the execution state and ignores each software module’s affinity to the processor caches. As a result, resumed threads of execution suffer additional delays due to conflict and compu...

Parsing for Two-staged Languages with Concatenation ∗ Soonho Kong Wontae Choi Kwangkeun Yi Seoul National University {soon,wtchoi,kwang}@ropas.snu.ac.kr Abstract This article, based on Doh, Kim, and Schmidt’s “abstract parsing” technique, presents an abstract interpretation for statically checking the syntax of generated code in two-staged programs. Abstract parsing is a static analysis techniq...