Purpose Laparoscopic gastrectomy is accepted as a standard treatment for patients with early gastric cancer in Korea, Japan, and China. However, duodenal stump leakage remains a fatal complication after gastrectomy. We conducted a prospective phase II study to evaluate the safety of the new technique of laparoscopic reinforcement suture (LARS) on the duodenal stump. Materials and Methods The ...

The integration of different existing tools, each of them not covering the whole life cycle, to a SEE (Software Engineering Environment) is an actual task. There are two main mechanisms of integration. The fIrst one is the vertical integration, that means, that a common user interface and a common data base are available for the tools to be assembled into a CASE Environment. ( The second one is...

1. Introduction. This is a fascinating paper on an important topic: the choice of predictor variables in large-scale linear models. A previous paper in these pages attacked the same problem using the " LARS " algorithm (Efron, Hastie, Johnstone and Tibshirani [3]); actually three algorithms including the Lasso as middle case. There are tantalizing similarities between the Dantzig Selector (DS) ...

This is a multi-center retrospective study of patients underwent low anterior resection for rectal cancer. Ileostomy had been done to protect lying Colo-rectal anastomosis, closure ileostomy delayed in some due patient own will, surgical complications (anastomotic leak) or coarse chemotherapy. aimed find the effect temporary on post-operative bowel defunction which called Low syndrome (LARS), a...

LPH: As a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, I had the opportunity to take classes from Chris Sims and Tom Sargent. Both emphasized the idea that dynamic econometric models should be viewed as restrictions on stochastic processes. Sims’ classroom development of large sample econometrics broke with the more conventional view of the time of focusing on models with exogenous regresso...

Let T be the quasi-nilpotent DT-operator. By use of Voiculescu’s amalgamated R-transform we compute the momets of (T −λ1)∗(T − λ1) where λ ∈ C, and the Brown-measure of T + √ Y , where Y is a circular element ∗-free from T for > 0. Moreover we give a new proof of Śniady’s formula for the moments τ(((T ∗)kT )) for k, n ∈ N.

Neglected patella tendon ruptures require reconstruction using tendon grafts. The LARS ligament has been successfully used in cruciate and collateral knee ligament reconstruction. We present a technique using LARS ligament for the reconstruction of a chronic patella tendon rupture in a low-demand patient. The result after 1-year follow-up was deemed successful.

Chung-Chuan Lai, Rahele Meshkian, Martin Dahlqvist, Jun Lu, Lars-Åke Näslund, O. Rivin, E. N. Caspi, O. Ozeri, Lars Hultman, Per Eklund, Michel Barsoum and Johanna Rosén, Structural and chemical determination of the new nanolaminated carbide Mo2Ga2C from first principles and materials analysis, 2015, Acta Materialia, (99), 157-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2015.07.063 Copyright: Else...

Line Associative Registers (LARs) are the basis for a new class of processor architectures in which memory accesses are minimized by explicitly managing wide lines of instructions and data in processor registers. The design of LARs has signi cant commonality with a number of existing technologies which have been more or less widely adopted, however, we rmly believe that LARs-based design, which...

OBJECTIVE Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive technique that allows monitoring of regional hemoglobin oxygen saturation (rSO2) values and might have a role in the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease. We assessed the reproducibility and inter-subject variability of rSO2 values and rSO2 limb-to-arm ratios (LARs) in lower extremities of healthy subjects. METHODS The rSO2 valu...