To a simple graph $G=(V,E)$, we correspond a simple graph $G_{triangle,square}$ whose vertex set is ${{x,y}: x,yin V}$ and two vertices ${x,y},{z,w}in G_{triangle,square}$ are adjacent if and only if ${x,z},{x,w},{y,z},{y,w}in Vcup E$. The graph $G_{triangle,square}$ is called the $(triangle,square)$-edge graph of the graph $G$. In this paper, our ultimate goal is to provide a link between the ...

purpose: to compare the results of two different methods of frontalis suspension using fascia lata in congenital ptosis. methods: in a randomized clinical trial, double triangle sling was compared with single triangle sling using fascia lata. eight patients with unilateral and 11 patients with bilateral congenital ptosis were randomly assigned for each procedure. results: there was no statistic...

BACKGROUND Management of unresectable colorectal liver metastases (CLM) can be by regional (hepatic arterial infusion [HAI]) or systemic chemotherapy, or by symptom control alone. In this study the costs of each type of management were related to clinical outcome in 134 patients with CLM. METHODS The costs (both in terms of health care and to society) and benefits (treatment-added survival an...

BACKGROUND A large multicentre randomised trial, the Big Lung Trial, which in part compared supportive care with or without cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, provided an opportunity to evaluate the impact on the UK National Health Service of the costs incurred with the use of chemotherapy. METHODS This costing study was based on the retrospecti...

OBJECTIVE There is very little evidence on the cost-effectiveness of social care interventions for people with dementia or their carers. The BEfriending and Costs of CAring trial (BECCA, ISRCTN08130075) aimed to establish whether a structured befriending service improved the quality of life of carers of people with dementia, and at what cost. METHODS We performed an economic evaluation alongs...

Motivated by the original Lothe-Pound prescription, we derive a formula for the replacement partition function that is suitable for vapor to liquid phase nucleation in terms of the classical phase integral. The resulting expression was evaluated for truncated and shifted Lennard-Jones fluids by means of computer simulation. The corresponding Lothe-Pound correction factor, which is to multiply t...

W HAT 15 the caloric equivalent of one pound of body weight, gained or lost ? To put the question in other words : How many cabnies in excess of the amount necessary to mriaintam caloric equilibrium will produce a gain of one pound of body weight ; conversely, what caloric deficit will determine a loss of one pound of body weight? It is strange that a marked diversity of opinion exists among au...

a Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA b Divisions of Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52212, USA c Department of Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA d Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA e Department ...

As history demonstrates, the challenge of leading a multinational coalition force or military alliance is not new (Plante, 1998). In fact, it may be as old as war itself. From the time of Troy to the Crusades to the Thirty Years Wars, from the Napoleonic Wars to the alliances of World Wars I and II, and from the Korean conflict to the “war against terrorism” in Afghanistan, nations have associa...

It?s hard to definitively determine what caused your heart to pound, but there are multiple possibilities. It might be that you experienced it as a common side effect of marijuana use. It?s also possible that your experience was due to feeling anxious, which could have been induced or exacerbated by marijuana use. Another reason for this is that your marijuana was laced with another substance w...