We describe a reproducible technique for achieving cold ischemia with intraoperative tumor assessment during robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) that recapitulates the open approach: intracorporeal cooling and extraction (ICE). A total of seven patients underwent the ICE modification of RPN by transperitoneal (n=5) and retroperitoneal (n=2) approaches. A Gelpoint access port was used for the came...

This paper presents a polynomial connectionist network called ridge polynomial network (RPN) that can uniformly approximate any continuous function on a compact set in multidimensional input space R (d), with arbitrary degree of accuracy. This network provides a more efficient and regular architecture compared to ordinary higher-order feedforward networks while maintaining their fast learning p...

Detecting vehicles in aerial imagery plays an important role in a wide range of applications. The current vehicle detection methods are mostly based on sliding-window search and handcrafted or shallow-learning-based features, having limited description capability and heavy computational costs. Recently, due to the powerful feature representations, region convolutional neural networks (CNN) base...

OBJECTIVE To report our initial experience with robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) in a series of 25 consecutively-operated patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS A series of 25 consecutive patients who underwent RPN from April 2010 to February 2011 were studied. We used the da Vinci S HD robotic system with transperitoneal approach. Total renal hilum control was used 22 cases and 3 patients underwent...

BACKGROUND Renal papillary necrosis (RPN) is associated with a number of comorbid conditions. However, it has been rarely reported in patients with fungal infections of the kidney. METHODS We analyzed medical records of our hospital for the last two decades and identified 29 patients with fungal infections and RPN. RESULTS Among the 29 patients, there were 24 men and 5 women. The median (ra...

This study utilized the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to analyze the risks of green components in compliance with the European Union (EU) the Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) directive in the incoming quality control (IQC) stage, which is based on a case of an OEM/ODM electronic manufacturer in Taiwan. There are three indices of FMEA in this work: the occurrence (O) that ca...

A 79-year-old woman with a history of diabetes mellitus and recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) presented with acute onset left lower quadrant pain, left-sided back pain, vomiting, and dysuria. Abdominopelvic CT scan revealed left hydroureteronephrosis to the level of the left ureterovesical junction (UVJ) where a bladder mass appeared to be obstructing the left ureteral orifice. The obst...

Super MD Tile Factory is an individual business that engaged in the production of tiles small quantities. One products produced Mantili tile with make to stock and order systems. Defective process cannot be completely avoided. The company sets a tolerance for defective production, which 4.44%, but practice can reach 8%. Types defects such as porous, cracked, broken, cracked tiles, charred.The w...

BACKGROUND Trifecta achievement in partial nephrectomy (PN) is defined as the combination of warm ischemia time ≤ 20 min, negative surgical margins, and no surgical complications. OBJECTIVE To compare trifecta achievement between robotic, laparoendoscopic, single-site (R-LESS) PN and multiport robotic PN (RPN). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Data from 167 patients who underwent RPN from ...

SUMMARY We studied the locations and organization of spinal pathways controlling the cardiac vagi in three groups of cats. In all animals, /?-adrenergic blockade was induced and the L4 spinal segment was exposed. The right carotid sinus nerves (RC9N) and right peroneal nerves (RPN) were sectioned and the central ends were prepared for stimulation. In one group of cats, hearts were paced and ind...