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Background. Foam and gauze are two types of wound fillers used for negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). Differences in the wound healing effects of foam and gauze have been observed clinically. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of NPWT on the wound bed using foam and gauze. Methods. A porcine peripheral wound model was treated with NPWT at 0, -75 mmHg, or -125 mmHg for 72
This paper summarises a RACR solution of The TTC 2015 Model Execution Case. RACR is a metacompiler library for Scheme. Its most distinguished feature is the seamless combination of reference attribute grammars and graph rewriting combined with incremental evaluation semantics. The presented solution sketches how these integrated analyses and rewriting facilities are used to transform fUML Activity
The forefield of the Solheimajokull outlet glacier, South Iceland, has a variety of glacial landforms and sediments that are products of late Holocene and modern glacier oscillations. Several sets of moraine ridges reflect past ice front positions and river-cut sedimentary sections provide information about past environments. Here, we describe sediments and landforms deposited during the late Holo
Introduction: Individuals with severe alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency have a well-known risk of developing emphysema but it is not known at which age the first symptoms occur and lung function declines. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence of smoking, respiratory symptoms and lung function at the age of 30 in AAT-deficient individuals (PiZ and PiSZ) identified by neonatal scree
A comparative analysis of the electron-hole (e-h) excitation mechanism of impurity luminescence has been performed for wide-gap oxides (WGO) and alkali halides crystals (AHC). A low quantum yield of scintillation in WGO with respect to that in AHC is connected with the high value of the average energy needed for the creation of an e-h pair in WGO. In AHC and many WGO, the width of a valence band E
A coordinated movement is easy to recognize, but we know little about how it is achieved. In search of the neural basis of coordination, we present a model of spinocerebellar interactions in which the structure-functional organizing principle is a division of the cerebellum into discrete microcomplexes. Each microcomplex is the recipient of a specific motor error signal-that is, a signal that conv
Poly(propylene oxide)s with a comblike architecture were prepared by using an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer as a macroinitiator for anionic graft polymerisation of propylene oxide. The densely grafted polymers were subsequently modified by capping the terminal hydroxyl groups with hexadecanoyl chloride to produce aggregating polymers. Dilute solution viscometry showed that the hydroxyl and hexa
An eagerly awaited prostate cancer susceptibility gene has been announced. But does the candidate live up to expectations?
Different adsorption phases of iron phthalocyanine (FePc) on highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) have been characterized by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM). Evaporation of FePc onto the graphite (000 1) surface, kept at room temperature. results in the formation of three-dimensional molecular islands. After annealing to 400 degrees C different two-dimensional features Lire identified. d
Background: In obese patients, jejunoileal bypass (JIB) has been used to induce weight reduction. Changes in the neuroendocrine system may be affected by the JIB-operation, because the proximal small intestinal mucosa has a rich supply of endocrine cells and peptidergic nerves. Materials and Methods: In 37 obese patients operated with JIB 1-30 years ago, small intestinal biopsies were taken at the
There are two fundamental aspects of the notion of a self: (i) it is the owner of one's experiences, that to which one's experiences are properly attributed, and (ii) it perceives itself. (ii) is a condition on the self's being capable of attributing experiences to itself or being introspectively aware of its experiences, which constitutes a third, higher-order aspect of the self. I claim that it
Tailbiting codes encoded by convolutional encoders are studied. An explanation is given for the fact that, at low signal-to-noise ratios, a systematic feedback encoder results in fewer decoding bit errors than a nonsystematic feedforward encoder for the same tailbiting code. The analysis is based on a recently introduced code property, namely, the weight density of distance-d codewords. For a give
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