We present a case series of five patients who were operated for various oral lesions in Rehman Medical Institute over a period of six months. In these cases resulting defects were repaired by using pedicaled buccal fat pad flap. In this paper we discuss indication, complication and technique involved in raising this flap. All four flaps survived, however one flap had to be removed due to contin...

This report suggests a framework for multi-sensor multi-target tracking with mobile sensors. Sensors negotiate over which targets to track (possibly sharing targets to benefit from data fusion technology) using a game theory based algorithm. Sensors’ preferences over negotiation offers are articulated with individual utility functions which encompass both information gain and directional deriva...

This paper examines determinants of Olympic success at the country level. Does the U.S. win its fair share of Olympic medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world’s population? We consider the role of population and economic resources in determining medal totals from 1960-1996. We also provide out of sample predictions for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. ∗100 Tuc...

We compare two techniques which enable selective, nucleotide-specific covalent modification of human genomic DNA, as assayed by quantitative ligation- mediated PCR. In the first, a purine motif triplex-forming oligonucleotide with a terminally appended chlorambucil was shown to label a target guanine residue adjacent to its binding site in 80% efficiency at 0.5 microM. Efficiency was higher in ...

Using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), we sought to predict classical class I and class II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles, and test for their associations with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium sample of cases and controls, genotyped on the Illumina HumanHap550 BeadChip. We use publicly available databases of SNP data and HLA data to f...