BACKGROUND Despite the proven benefits, laparoscopic colorectal surgery is still under utilized among surgeons. A steep learning is one of the causes of its limited adoption. Aim of the study is to determine the feasibility and morbidity rate after laparoscopic colorectal surgery in a single institution, "learning curve" experience, implementing a well standardized operative technique and recov...

INTRODUCTION The present study deals with development and validation of a simple, rapid, sensitive and economic area under curve method for simultaneous estimation of paracetamol and nabumetone in bulk and tablet dosage form. MATERIALS AND METHOD Area under curve method includes determination of area of paracetamol and nabumetone at absorption maxima, which for paracetamol was 248.8 ± 10 nm a...

Conventional edge linking methods perform poorly when multiple responses to the same edge, bifurcations and nearby edges are present. We propose a scheme for curve inference where divergent bifur-cations are initially suppressed so that the smooth parts of the curves can be computed more reliably. Recovery of curve singularities and gaps is deferred to a later stage, when more contextual inform...

We introduce a framework for recovering the 3D motion and shape of unknown, moving curves from two or more image sequences acquired simultaneously from distinct points in space. We use this framework to (1) identify ambiguities in the multiview recovery of 3D motion for arbitrary curves, and (2) identify a novel spatio-temporal constraint that couples the problems of 3D shape and 3D motion reco...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the critical period of voltage-gated Na(+) channel development in hippocampal CA1 neurons. Changes of Na(+) currents in acutely isolated hippocampal CA1 neurons of rats at different ages (0-4 weeks after birth) were recorded using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. The results indicated that the maximum current density of Na(+) channels was incr...

the recovery and removal of the most organic acids in liquid solutions is usually treated with fixed-bed adsorption processes. among many adsorbents, granular activated carbon (gac) is used to remove organic pollutants such as benzoic acid (ba) from wastewaters conventionally. in this research, adsorption isotherm curves of ba onto gac at varying temperatures 25-60 °c are developed and the amou...

In matrix recovery from random linear measurements, one is interested in recovering an unknown M -by-N matrix X0 from n < MN measurements yi = Tr(Ai X0) where each Ai is an M -by-N measurement matrix with i.i.d random entries, i = 1, . . . , n. We present a novel matrix recovery algorithm, based on approximate message passing, which iteratively applies an optimal singular value shrinker – a non...

We describe in this paper closed-form solutions to the following problems in multi-view geometry of n'th order curves: (i) recovery of the fundamental matrix from 4 or more conic matches in two views, (ii) recovery of the homography matrix from a single n'th order (n 3) matching curve and, in turn, recovery of the fundamental matrix from two matching n'th order planar curves, and (iii) 3D recon...

Fifty-three psychiatric patients, 16 with schizophrenia, 19 with affective disorder, and 19 with schizo-affective disorder were diagnosed by Research Diagnostic Criteria. Hoffmann reflex recovery curves were measured in the right and left legs of each patient. In both affective disorder and schizo-affective disorder, recovery curve height in the right and left legs was highly correlated. In sch...

Introduction: Multiple acquisitions along the longitudinal magnetization curve as done with the Look-Locker (LL) technique perturbs the inversion recovery curve. The b-SSFP sequence perturbs magnetization minimally compared to other sequences [1]. However, when inversion recovery is incomplete (if TRseq<5T1max) or the flip angle is relatively large (>10° for GM/WM/CSF mapping), a three paramete...