BACKGROUND Statistics published by The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery report a 48% increase in cosmetic procedures for 2000-2001 and a 14% increase for rhytidectomies alone. Patients aged 35 to 50 account for 30.2% of all rhytidectomies performed. Many of these patients undergo secondary rhytidectomy. OBJECTIVE We investigated differences between patients undergoing secondary ...

We describe a scenario of independent TV programme dissemination where viewers receive their own tailored channel created from content in which they’re interested. We focus primarily on the problem of distributing the content from the producers to all interested viewers. Our approach is based on a multicast scheme called implicit group messaging, realised as a distributed structured peer-to-pee...

The author provides advice on face lift incision placement to preserve ear contour and maintain normal sideburn position.

In recent years, the weakness of the canonical support-confidence framework for associations mining has been widely studied. One of the difficulties in applying association rules mining is the setting of support constraint. A high-support constraint avoids the combinatorial explosion in discovering frequent itemsets, but at the expense of missing interesting patterns of low support. Instead of ...

The sinus lift techniques had a lot of modifications through the years. In 1960 Boyene published sinuslift with lateral access. In the beginning it was used for achieving an optimal intercrestal distance needed for denture making. But in the 1980 Boyen and James started to place implants in the newly created bone. The wish of patients and dentists for minimalivasive methods lead to the developm...

T freezing of water and melting of ice are among the most dramatic examples of phase transitions in nature. Melting ice accounts for everyday phenomena as diverse as the electrification of thunderclouds, in which the liquid layer on ice chunks facilitates the transfer of mass and charge during collisions between them; frost heave powerful enough to lift boulders from the ground (see PHYSICS TOD...

Objective: To reemphasize LIFT technique for fistula in ano with redefined inclusion and exclusion criteria developed by Thai surgeon Arun Rojanasakul & to standardize the procedure for our setting. Material & Method: A prospective observational study in 32 fistula in ano patients treated by LIFT technique from Sept 2011 to March 2013. Result: Fistula in ano healed primarily in all 32 patients ...