This study characterized the infiltration of primary tumors along the muscles, fascia and spaces of the maxillofacial region in buccal squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) and suggested a new surgical strategy that is suitable for most stages. Based on the anatomic characteristics and infiltration of the primary tumor a new surgical approach - unit resection buccal surgery (URBS) - was developed. We ...

Security concerned users and organizations must be provided with the means to protect and control access to object-oriented software, especially with an exploding interest in designing/developing object-oriented software in Java, C++, and Ada95. Our user-role based security (URBS) approach has emphasized: a customizable public interface that appears di erently at di erent times for speci c user...

User-role based security (URBS) has drawn signi cant attention in recent years for its ability to customize security privileges according to the responsibilities of individual user roles. To provide access to object-oriented applications, the public interface of each class contains methods for all potential users of the class. In order to nely tune this access, URBS can be introduced to promote...

We propose a new measure for analyzing the structural similarities among the cognitive maps of different decision makers. Upon interpreting the cognitive response elicitation process in the general framework of fuzzy set theory, we are able to develop the similarity measure from straightforward operations on fuzzy relational products. In addition to the mathematical analysis, we present visual ...

We propose a new measure for analyzing the structural similarities among the cognitive maps of different decision makers. Upon interpreting the cognitive response elicitation process in the general framework of fuzzy set theory, we are able to develop the similarity measure from straightforward operations on fuzzy relational products. In addition to the mathematical analysis, we present visual ...

Blood metabolic profiles were determined from 40 days prepartum to 60 days postpartum in Uruguayan Holstein (UH) (n = 13) and UH x New Zealand Holstein-Friesian first cross (UH-NZHF) (n = 13) cows with seven in each group experiencing their second lactation (L2) and six experiencing their third lactation (L3). Non-esterified fatty acids increased around calving and tended to be greater in UH-L3...

We studied Heinz body-containing erythrocytes with three different unstable hemoglobins: Nottingham, Brockton, and unclassified. We demonstrated two classes of membrane protein defects in unstable hemoglobin-containing cells (UH-RBCs), a defect of the spectrin-depleted inside-out vesicle (UH-IOV), and a defect of spectrin (UH-spectrin) itself. The composition of UH-IOVs is the same as control w...