BACKGROUND This paper gives an outline of the Casley-Smith method for the treatment of lymphedema of the arm. It includes a brief summary of the development of manual techniques and the terminology applied to them. METHODS The four principles of this method are skin care, manual lymphatic drainage, compression in the form of bandaging and/or garments, and exercise. The massage techniques, esp...

1. The proper use of a Smith-Petersen nail is the best method of treating intracapsular fractures of the neck of the femur. Its simplicity and accuracy represent a great advance over older methods. 2. The Smith-Petersen nail is only the provision of an efficient internal splint. Its great merit is that it allows the patient to get up within a few days. 3. The Smith-Petersen nail will neither en...

In this paper, a modified Smith predictor in the presence of input and output disturbances as well as modeling uncertainty is investigated. The modified Smith predictor includes the feedforward Smith predictor and the compensator that approximates the inverse of time-delay. Assuming a multiplicative uncertainty, a robust stability criterion and a compensator design criterion are derived. The mo...

Abstract—In this paper, the analytical tuning rules of IMC-PID controller are presented for the multivariable Smith predictor that involved the ideal decoupling. Accordingly, the decoupler is first introduced into the multivariable Smith predictor control system by a well-known approach of ideal decoupling, which is compactly extended for general nxn multivariable processes and the multivariabl...

evaluation the effect of swimming time on dental erosion among swimmers     m. mehdipour 1 , a. taghavi zenooz 2 , n. gholizadeh 3 , a. bahramian œ 4 , n. sartip pour 5   1 associate professor, department of oral medicine , school of dentistry, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences. tehran, iran   2 associate professor, department of oral medicine , school of dentistry, tabriz universi...

The classical algorithms to align two biological sequences (Needleman and Wunsch and Smith and Waterman algorithms) can be seen as a sequence of elementary operations in (max;+) algebra: each line (viewed as a vector) of the dynamic programming table of the alignment algorithms can be deduced by a (max;+) multiplication of the previous line by a matrix. Taking into account the properties of the...

BACKGROUND The Smith-Waterman algorithm, which produces the optimal pairwise alignment between two sequences, is frequently used as a key component of fast heuristic read mapping and variation detection tools for next-generation sequencing data. Though various fast Smith-Waterman implementations are developed, they are either designed as monolithic protein database searching tools, which do not...

In this paper, we propose an efficient hierarchical DNA sequence search method to improve the search speed while the accuracy is being kept constant. For a given query DNA sequence, firstly, a fast local search method using histogram features is used as a filtering mechanism before scanning the sequences in the database. An overlapping processing is newly added to improve the robustness of the ...