Aim. Genitourinary fistulas are bothersome clinical entities not only for the patient but also for the treating surgeon as well. A lot of surgical procedures have been proposed; however, most of the fistulas can be easily treated with plain surgical techniques, such as the simple surgical closure of the fistula tract. Material and Method. The study was carried out in the urogynecology departmen...

BACKGROUND The most common complications of peptic ulcer are bleeding and perforation. In many regions, definitive acid reduction surgery has given way to simple closure and Helicobacter pylori eradication. AIM To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to ask whether this change in practice is in fact justified. MATERIALS AND METHODS A search on the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registe...

The increase of the capacity of communication systems can be achieved by an increase in the channel bit-rate. Increasing the channel rate assumes the utilization of shorter carrier pulses. It is well known that the propagation of short pulses is strongly affected by the fibre dispersion, which results in large temporal broadening of the carrier pulses. Subsequently, the carrier pulse power spre...

OBJECTIVE Recently, our institution refined a technique for robot-assisted renorrhaphy utilizing sliding Weck Hem-O-Lock clips, which are tightened by the surgeon seated at the console and locked into place with a LapraTy clip. In addition to the relative ease of implementation, we believe that our technique also provides a superior strength of closure over other commonly used techniques. MET...

In this paper, an efficient approach is proposed for loop-closure detection in robot visual SLAM. The method uses mutual information to measure similarity between current view and key frames in an appearance map, and evaluates candidate loop-closure locations in particle filter framework. Specially, the implementation of particle filter is accelerated through updating a set of weight vector of ...

Abstract The octagon abstract domain is a widely used numeric abstract domain expressing relational information between variables whilst being both computationally efficient and simple to implement. Each element of the domain is a system of constraints where each constraint takes the restricted form ̆xi ̆xj ď c. A key family of operations for the octagon domain are closure algorithms, which check...