OBJECTIVES Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy can predictably eliminate the disabling symptoms of palmar hyperhidrosis. Debate has ensued over competing techniques, in particular, cutting versus clamping of the sympathetic chain. We subjectively assessed the sweat severity in different areas of the body and evaluated changes in the quality of life in patients undergoing either the cutting or cla...

ABSTRACT: The asexual propagation of conifers, such as Podocarpus macrophyllus (Thunb.) Sweet, faces difficulties. Among the factors that can improve efficiency are types cuttings used and lesions performed at base cuttings, use plant regulators, indolebutyric acid (IBA). This study determined to be cutting base, type used, method convey IBA concentration required obtain a proper rooting condit...

Abstract. Optimal replacement of machining cutting tools is a major challenge in today's manufacturing industry. Due to the degradation tool during machining, late leads risk producing parts that do not meet technical specifications, while early increases machine downtime and costs. To replace at right time, it necessary monitor their degradation. Therefore, this paper compares classification p...

Pattern recognition techniques can be very useful in forensic sciences to point out to relevant sets of events and potentially encourage an intelligence-led style of policing. In this study, these techniques have been applied to categorical data corresponding to cutting agents found in heroin seizures. An application of graph theoretic methods has been performed, in order to highlight the possi...

Background As Mixed Martial Arts grows in popularity, more athletes are participating in “weight cutting” to compete in weight classes that are below their regular weight. Current weight cutting techniques include dehydration, food restriction, diuretic use and self-induced vomiting to rapidly decrease weight. All of these can inhibit performance and negatively impact the health of an athlete. ...

To understand the physical phenomena generated during cutting processes, the characterization of the temperature field is essential. The temperature is an important parameter controlling to tool wear and consequently the life duration, the quality of the surface finish, chip segmentation and the choice of lubrication. Furthermore, thermal aspects become more important with high cutting speeds u...

Finite domain constraints are one of the most important constraint domains in constraint logic programming. Usually, they are solved by local consistency techniques combined with enumeration. We argue that, in many cases, the concept of local consistency is too weak for both theoretical and practical reasons. We show how to obtain more information from a given constraint set by computing cuttin...