The case report will present some novel techniques for using a "staged" protocol utilizing strategic periodontally involved teeth as transitional abutments in combination with CBCT guided implant surgery. Staging the case prevented premature loading of the grafted sites during the healing phase. A CBCT following a tenting screw guided bone regeneration procedure ensured adequate bone to place a...

BACKGROUND Simultaneous bilateral primary spontaneous pneumothorax (SBPSP) is rare, but requires surgery on both sides, in patients with definite bilateral bullae to prevent life-threatening conditions. Recently, uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been widely accepted as a less invasive technique for the treatment of pneumothorax. Thus, we introduced single-staged uniport...

Seasonal Autoregressive Fractionally Integrated Moving Average SARFIMA models are used in the analysis of seasonal long memory-dependent time series. Two methods, which are conditional sum of squares CSS and two-staged methods introduced by Hosking 1984 , are proposed to estimate the parameters of SARFIMA models. However, no simulation study has been conducted in the literature. Therefore, it i...

This is a brief technical note summarizing some work done at the May 2014 MIRI workshop. We consider expected utility maximizers making a staged series of sequential choices, and replacing themselves with successors on each time-step (to represent self-modification). We wanted to find conditions under which we could show that a staged expected utility maximizer would replace itself with another...

A two-staged traffic control scheme, in which sets of candidate paths are prepared off-line prior to overall motion planning process, has been widely adopted for motion planning of mobile robots, but relatively little attention has been given to the application of the two-staged scheme to multiple automated guided vehicle systems (MAGVS’s). In this paper, a systematic two-staged traffic control...