Fission cases, in which one person appears to divide into two persons, pose a serious challenge to many assumptions of commonsense ethics. Chief among these assumptions is the idea that self-interest is an important source of reasons. We normally think that something like the following is true: Self-Interest Thesis: For any person S, and any two possibilities p 1 and p 2 , S has an important ki...

The World Wide Web is playing a major role in reducing business costs and in providing convenience to users. Digital Libraries capitalize on this technology to distribute documents that are stored in their servers. Online banks capitalize on this technology to reduce their operating costs and to offer 24 hours services to their clients. These two services are examples of services that require a...

The Self Absorption Curve (SAC) method of Friedjung and Muratorio is derived directly from a more usual description of emission from optically thick sources. The present derivation shows that the SAC function Q(t0) is the logarithm of the line-of-sight photon escape probability associated with the particular model used. A description of the photon escape probability concept and its present stat...

Two useful numerical values, called the Torg ratio and the spinal canal diameter (SC diameter) are widely accepted as reliable morphometric determinants of spinal stenosis. The aims of the study were to examine morphometric determinants of the cervical spinal canal on MRI in both sexes and analyse them as reliable indicators of spinal stenosis. Measurements were made on 50 MR images (sagittal T...

A novel transosseous approach for percutaneous access of the lumbar subarachnoid space is described in a patient with advanced ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and instrumented spinal fusion who presented for myelography. Use of a coaxial threaded bone biopsy system to provide transosseous access to the thecal sac, imaging findings, and outcome are discussed. This technique provided access to an oth...

With the use of power domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and backscatter communication (BAC), future sixth-generation ultra massive machine-type communications networks are expected to connect large-scale internet things (IoT) devices. However, due NOMA co-channel interference, allocation IoT devices becomes critical. The existing convex optimization-based solutions highly complex, th...

Peter Whitfield Whitfield is ACNRs Neurosurgery editor. He is a Consultant and Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at the South West Neurosurgery Centre, Plymouth. His clinical interests are wide, including neurovascular conditions, head injury, stereotactic radiosurgery, image guided tumour surgery and lumbar microdiscectomy. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and t...

June 28, 2011 | Laparoscopy [1], Surgical Gynecology [2], ObGyn Compensation Survey [3], Infertility [4] Following the first studies carried on by S. Gordts, the technique of Fertiloscopy has been developed, starting in 1997, by A.Watrelot at the "Centre Lyonnais de recherche et d'étude de la stérilité (CRES®)". Fertiloscopy is a new minimally invasive methods for the exploration of the posteri...