The feet of birds are important in the regulation of core temperature (Kahl 1963, Steen and Steen 1965, Johansen and Millard 1973) and are particularly effective in heat transfer when birds are normoor hyperthennic (Steen and Steen 1965). Under natural conditions, they must also be sites of considerable heat loss when they are immersed in cold water or in contact with cold substrates (e.g., ice...

the cIeft to restore symmetry and aIso preserved a full Cupid’s bow. Marcks and co-workers, in 1953, reported excehent resuIts using simiIar technics. In 1955 Millard [j] presented a new design for this type of repair. He employed curved incisions corresponding to the caIcuIated phiItrum Iine on the cleft side and added length to this side of the lip by extending the media1 incision underneath ...

Research on computer system resilience, indeed on dependability and security generally, suffers from fragmentation into numerous partly-overlapping communities, and inconsistencies in terminology. As a partial response to this situation, we report on the development and use of a Resilience Knowledge Base (RKB) which currently contains over 60 million information items drawn from publication rep...

The current status of Plumularia lagenifera Allman, 1885, a common thecate hydroid of the west coast of the USA and Canada, is problematic as it is difficult to distinguish from the near cosmopolitan and very variable Plumularia setacea. Type material of P. lagenifera and newly collected material of P. lagenifera and P. setacea from the region of the type locality of the former was used to comp...

BACKGROUND No one technique of cleft lip repair consistently produces ideal aesthetic and functional results. This study was carried out in a developing, high-volume center. It compares outcomes attained using two different designs of skin incision used for primary closure of unilateral complete cleft lip and sought to identify the most appropriate technique for clefts of varying morphology. ...

We study the leading corrections to the emergent canonical commutation relations arising in the statistical mechanics of matrix models, by deriving several related Ward identities, and give conditions for these corrections to be small. We show that emergent canonical commutators are possible only in matrix models in complex Hilbert space for which the numbers of fermionic and bosonic fundamenta...

324 May 2014, Vol. 104, No. 5 Rapid, minimally invasive adult voluntary male circumcision with the Unicirc, a novel disposable device To the Editor: I congratulate Millard et al.[1] on their publication. My co-workers and I have studied the PrePex male circumcision device in three clinical trials,[2-4] and I would like to share our opinions. The Unicirc is intended to be used exclusively with g...