OBJECTIVE To identify prognostic factors of postoperative functional outcomes. METHODS Retrospective case series evaluating patients undergoing rotator cuff repair, analyzed by the UCLA score (pre and 12-month postoperative) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (preoperative). Patients' intrinsic variables related to the injury and intervention were evaluated. Multivariate linear regression analysi...

Sub population of cancer cells, referred to as Cancer stem cells (CSCs) or tumor initiating cells, have enhanced metastatic potential that drives tumor progression. CSCs have been found to hold intrinsic resistance to present chemotherapeutic strategies. This resistance is attributed to DNA reparability, slower cell cycle and high levels of detoxifying enzymes. Hence, CSCs pose an obstacle agai...

Self-healing software is one of the challenges issues for IST research. The WS-Diamond project aims at making a step in this direction by developing a framework for self-healing Web Services. In this paper, we present the overall goals of the project, namely: i) defining an operational framework for self-healing service execution of conversationally complex Web Services, where monitoring, detec...

This paper focuses on the problem of bringing a business process document to a consistent state after exceptional occurrences. Although many traditional recovery methods can support exception handling, they are mainly concerned with process backtracking, forward stepping, and compensation. However, prior to the use of recovery algorithms, it is essential to find a rollback activity for organiza...

We propose a two-stage stochastic programming framework for designing or identifying “resilient”, or “reparable” structures in graphs whose topology may undergo a stochastic transformation. The reparability of a subgraph satisfying a given property is defined in terms of a budget constraint, which allows for a prescribed number of vertices to be added to or removed from the subgraph so as to re...

Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is a polymer that expansively employed in denture base construction due to its low cost, aesthetics, lightweight, reparability, and processability. Nevertheless, this material not ideal fulfill the mechanical physical characteristics of dental restorations. Despite popularity thermal polymerization method, main shortcoming prolonged curing period. Thus, correctly ...