BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Keyless abdominal rope-lifting surgery is a novel, gasless, single-incision laparoscopic surgical technique. In this study we aimed to compare the postoperative pain from keyless abdominal rope-lifting surgery with carbon dioxide laparoscopy performed for benign ovarian cysts. METHODS During a 20-month period, 77 women underwent surgery for a benign ovarian cyst. Key...

let $r$ be a right artinian ring or a perfect commutative‎‎ring‎. ‎let $m$ be a noncosingular self-generator $sum$-lifting‎‎module‎. ‎then $m$ has a direct decomposition $m=oplus_{iin i} m_i$‎,‎where each $m_i$ is noetherian quasi-projective and each‎‎endomorphism ring $end(m_i)$ is local‎.

Wavelet transform has demonstrated excellent compression performance with Natural images. However the performance suffers in the neighborhood of oriented edges. Under these conditions the Lifting –style implementation of wavelets are widely used in image coders. The framework of lifting offers the flexibility for developing adaptive wavelet transforms. In this paper adaptive prediction techniqu...

The study documented three-dimensional spinal loading during lifting from an industrial bin. Two lifting styles and two bin design factors were examined in Phase I. The lifting style measures in Phase I were one hand versus two hand and standing on one foot versus two feet. The bin design variables were region of load in the bin and bin height. The Phase II study examined one-handed lifting sty...

Dependency stochastic Boolean satisfiability (DSSAT) generalizes (SSAT) in existential variables being Henkinized allowing their dependencies on randomized to be explicitly specified. It allows NEXPTIME problems of reasoning under uncertainty and partial information compactly encoded. To date, no decision procedure has been implemented for solving DSSAT formulas. This work provides the first su...

In recent years, wavelet lifting is widely used in digital image processing. Different lifting schemes decorrelate digital medical image sets differently. The difference is due to the properties of the lifting schemes and the way the image data is processed by these schemes. Each medical image has a foreground (the medical data) surrounded by background. The background is not used by the radiol...

The aim of this paper is to review emerging trends in efficient implementations of VLSI architecture of lifting based two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D-DWT).The basic principle of lifting scheme is decomposing finite impulse response (FIR) filter into finite sequence of filtering steps. The inherent in place computation of lifting scheme has many advantages, and has been adapted in...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether advice and training on working techniques and lifting equipment prevent back pain in jobs that involve heavy lifting. DATA SOURCES Medline, Embase, CENTRAL, Cochrane Back Group's specialised register, CINAHL, Nioshtic, CISdoc, Science Citation Index, and PsychLIT were searched up to September-November 2005. REVIEW METHODS The primary search focused on randomi...

This study investigated the effects of initial load height and foot placement instruction in four lifting techniques: free, stoop (bending the back), squat (bending the knees) and a modified squat technique (bending the knees and rotating them outward). A 2D dynamic linked segment model was combined with an EMG assisted trunk muscle model to quantify kinematics and low back loading in 10 subjec...