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Long-term results of high-density porous polyethylene implants in facial skeletal augmentation: An Indian perspective

Context: With the increasing emphasis on well-sculpted facial features, today there is a growing need for tools to augment the facial skeleton; either for cosmetic reasons or to re-contour deformities-congenital, post-traumatic and post-ablative. The limitations of autogenous materials has lead to evolution of numerous 'alloplasts', of which, high-density porous polyethylene (HDPE) seems to be a promising alternative. Aims: To evaluate the long term results of HDPE in facial skeletal augmentation in terms of achieving desired facial contour, patient satisfaction and complications. Settings: A tertiary care referral centre in a metropolitan set-up. Design: Case Series Materials and Methods: All patients undergoing HDPE implant insertion for facial skeletal augmentation between July 2001 and November 2009 were included in the study. A total of 70 HDPE implants were inserted in 44 patients. All procedures were performed by a single surgeon following standardized pre, intra and post-operative protocols. The results were evaluated with respect to improvement in facial contour desired and achieved, overall patient satisfaction and complications encountered. Results: The study included 44 patients with a male:female ratio of 1:1, a mean age of 25.09 years (14 to 58 years) and a mean follow-up of 45.34 months (0.5 to 100 months). HDPE implants were used to augment the nasal dorsum, maxilla, malar eminence, chin, mandibular body and angle, orbital rim and frontal region. The overall recontouring afforded by the HDPE implants was good, with most patients reporting satisfactory results. There were seven complications (10%), including three cases of deviation (4.29%), three cases of exposure (4.29%) and one case of sub-clinical infection (1.43%). None however necessitated implant removal. Nasal dorsal HDPE implants, especially those involving secondary surgery, suffered a much higher complication rate compared to other implants. Conclusions: HDPE is an alternative to autogenous grafts for facial skeletal augmentation with good long-term results and a low incidence of complications, provided there is adequate vascular soft tissue cover.
A Case of Elderly Manic-Depression with Dementia-Like Symptoms in a Manic Phase

The authors present the case of an elderly manic-depressive woman who showed dementia-like symptoms only in the manic phase. The reasons why occurrence of endogenous bipolar depression (manic-depression) in the elderly is comparatively rare are considered from the point of the possibilty of latent disturbance of the brain, presbyophrenia, and pseudodementia.
Unilateral Microform Cleft Lip Repair: Application of Muscle Tension Line Group Theory

BackgroundIn microform cleft lip repair, reconstructing the elaborate structures is difficult. We describe a new technique of unilateral microform cleft lip repair that is based on the muscle tension line group theory. MethodsAccording to the shape of Cupid bow, a different small incision is used without creating an obvious cutaneous scar. First, the nasolabial muscle around the nasal floor (the first auxiliary tension line group) is reconstructed, and then the orbicularis oris muscle around the philtrum (the second auxiliary tension line group) is reconstructed based on the muscle tension line group theory. ResultsFrom June 2006 to June 2012, the technique was used in 263 unilateral microform cleft lip repairs. For 18 months, 212 patients were followed up. The appearance of the nasal alar, nasal sill, philtrum, and Cupid bow peak improved. Most patients had a satisfactory appearance. ConclusionsBased on the muscle tension line group theory, using this technique offers the ability to adduct the nasal alar effectively to form a good nasal sill and philtrum.
Likelihood Ratio Tests With Three-Way Tables

Likelihood ratio (LR) tests for association and for interaction are examined for three-way contingency tables, particularly the widely used 2 × 2 × K table. Mutual information identities are used to characterize the information decomposition and the logical relationship between the omnibus LR test for conditional independence across K strata and its two independent components, LR tests for interaction and for uniform association. The latter two tests are logically connected to formulating a natural two-step test for conditional independence. The proposed two-step test with reduced nominal levels is suggested instead of the Breslow–Day test and the Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel test. This yields efficient interval estimation for both the interaction parameter and the common odds ratio compared with using the Mantel–Haenszel estimate. This allows the development of power analysis for testing general hypotheses of varied interactions, using an invariant Pythagorean law of relative entropy.
Dietary Factors and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case Control Study Among a Population in Southern France

This case-control study examined different food groups in relation to breast cancer. Between 2002 and 2004, 437 cases and 922 controls matched according to age and area of residence were interviewed. Diet was measured by a validated food frequency questionnaire. Adjusted odds ratios (Ors) were computed across levels of various dietary intakes identified by two methods: the “classical” and the “spline” methods. Neither of the 2 methods found an association between total fruit and vegetable consumption and breast cancer. Results of the 2 methods showed a nonsignificant decreased association with cooked vegetables intake as well as legumes and fish consumption. Whereas the spline method showed no association, the classical method showed significant associations related to the lowest consumption of raw vegetables or dairy products and breast cancer risk: Adjusted OR for raw vegetable consumption between (67.4 and 101.3 g/day) vs. (< 67.4 g/day) was 0.63 [95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.43–0.93]. Adjusted OR for dairy consumption between (134.3 and 271.2 g/day) vs. (< 134.3 g/day) was 1.57 (95% CI = 1.06–2.32). However, the overall results were not consistent. Compared to the classical method, the use of the spline method showed a significant association for cereal, meat, and olive oil. Cereal and olive oil were inversely associated with breast cancer risk. Breast cancer risk increased by 56% for each additional 100 g/day of meat consumption. Studies using novel methodological techniques are needed to confirm the dietary threshold responsible for changes in breast cancer risk. New approaches that consist in analyzing dietary patterns rather than dietary food are necessary.
Cognitive Misfit of Problem-Solving Style at Work: A Facet of Person-Organization Fit

Based on Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Theory (1976, 1977) of problem-solving style at work, the construct of cognitive misfit was developed and proposed as one viable facet of Person-Organization fit. Cognitive misfit refers to the degree of mismatch between an individual's cognitive style of problem solving and the style demands of the work context. Relationships among cognitive misfit, job performance, and actual individual turnover after 3 years were examined in a sample of 253 engineers in either a Staff engineering function or a Research and Development (R&D) engineering function. The Staff function and the R&D function corresponded to a work context predominant in adaptive-style demands and a work context predominant in innovative-style demands, respectively. Results from logistic regression analyses showed that cognitive misfit was uncorrelated with job performance, but provided significant and substantial incremental validity in predicting actual turnover over the predictability provided by performance. Implications, limitations, and directions for future research were discussed in terms of levels of analysis issues and the current focus on Person-Organization fit in selection and organizational behavior research.
The impact of agricultural intensification and land-use change on the European arable flora

The impact of crop management and agricultural land use on the threat status of plants adapted to arable habitats was analysed using data from Red Lists of vascular plants assessed by national experts from 29 European countries. There was a positive relationship between national wheat yields and the numbers of rare, threatened or recently extinct arable plant species in each country. Variance in the relative proportions of species in different threat categories was significantly explained using a combination of fertilizer and herbicide use, with a greater percentage of the variance partitioned to fertilizers. Specialist species adapted to individual crops, such as flax, are among the most threatened. These species have declined across Europe in response to a reduction in the area grown for the crops on which they rely. The increased use of agro-chemicals, especially in central and northwestern Europe, has selected against a larger group of species adapted to habitats with intermediate fertility. There is an urgent need to implement successful conservation strategies to arrest the decline of this functionally distinct and increasingly threatened component of the European flora.
An Individual Differences Measure of Attributive and Repudiative Tactics of Favorable Self-Presentation

Using a new measure of the tendency to present oneself in an unrealistically positive way, the Self-Presentation Scale (SPS), the present study examined the validity of two different tactics for presenting a favorable self-image. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that individual differences in the use of an attributive tactic, the tendency to attribute positive characteristics to the self, were correlated with, but distinct from, individual differences in the use of a repudiative tactic, which is the tendency to deny the presence of negative characteristics of the self. Scores on both tactics were highly correlated with the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, and both tactic subscales were positively correlated with self-reported self-esteem and negatively correlated with depression. However, only the repudiative tactic scores were found to be associated with self-consciousness and social anxiety scores, and only the attributive tactic scores were correlated with self-report measures of self-mo.
Exploring criminogenic need through victim apology letters: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

The concept of criminogenic need is widely used, both to understand offending behaviour and in the design of treatment programmes. However, it is recognised that criminogenic need may differ dependent upon the nature of the offending, the cultural context and the specific forensic population. In order to develop programmes that successfully effect change in offenders, it is important to identify the factors that may be implicated in offending and to target these factors. This research explores the criminogenic needs of a group of men attending a community‐based introductory sex offender programme, through their victim apology letters, using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The data suggest that these men do not understand themselves or their behaviour in terms of criminogenic need, for the most part, and the implications for this are considered.
Semantic schism and interpretive integration in Japanese sentences with a mimetic: A reply to Tsujimura

Tsujimura's critique raises questions regarding two major issues raised by Kita (1997). One is the claim that semantic representation of mimetics involves the affecto-imagistic dimension. The affecto-imagistic dimension is distinct from the analytic dimension, where the semantics of the rest of the sentence is represented. I point out some problems with Tsujimura's criticism in this regard. I also provide further details on the data reported in Kita (1997), concerning iconic gesture and mimetics. Though the iconic-gesture data provide supporting evidence in Kita (1997) into account, I still maintain that the semantics of mimetics and that of ordinary words should be represented in different dimensions, though they are integrated in the interpretation process. The second issue raised by Tsujimura concerns how a mimetic contributes to the meaning of the whole sentence. I agree with Tsujimura that it is not fruitful to equate the compatibility requirements imposed by mimetics and selectional restrictions in the classic sense. However, contrary to Tsujimura, I still maintain that the meaning of a mimetic can be attributed to the mimetic itself. Furthermore, the meaning of mimetics is in general constrained in the way outlined in Kita (1997)
Supervisory Control Using Computationally Eecient Linear Techniques: a Tutorial Introduction Interdisciplinary Studies of Intelligent Systems Supervisory Control Using Computationally Eecient Linear Techniques: a Tutorial Introduction

This paper provides an overview of a computationally eecient method for synthesizing supervisory controllers for discrete event systems (DES). The DES plant and controller are described by Petri nets which provide a useful linear algebraic model for both control analysis and synthesis. It is shown how a set of linear constraints on the plant's behavior can be enforced, accounting for possibly uncontrollable or unobservable transitions in the plant net, using techniques from Petri net theory, integer programming, and linear systems. The paper is written as a tutorial introduction to the approach. Several results presented here have been reported elsewhere in the literature.
Instability of supersonic compression ramp flow

The instability of supersonic compression ramp flow is investigated. It is assumed that the Reynolds number is large and that the governing equations are the unsteady triple-deck equations. The mean flow is first calculated by solving the steady equations for various scaled ramp angles α, and the numerical results suggest that there is no singularity for increasing ramp angles. The stability of the flow is investigated using two approaches, first by solving the linearized unsteady equations and looking for global modes proportional to eλt. In the second approach, the linearized unsteady equations are solved numerically with various initial conditions. Whereas no globally unsteady modes could be found for the range of ramp angles studied, the numerical simulations show the formation of wavepacket type disturbances which grow and convect and reach large amplitudes. However, the numerical results show large variations with grid size even on very fine grids.
CUT1, an Arabidopsis Gene Required for Cuticular Wax Biosynthesis and Pollen Fertility, Encodes a Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acid Condensing Enzyme

Land plants secrete a layer of wax onto their aerial surfaces that is essential for survival in a terrestrial environment. This wax is composed of long-chain, aliphatic hydrocarbons derived from very-long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs). Using the Arabidopsis expressed sequence tag database, we have identified a gene, designated CUT1, that encodes a VLCFA condensing enzyme required for cuticular wax production. Sense suppression of CUT1 in transgenic Arabidopsis plants results in waxless (eceriferum) stems and siliques as well as conditional male sterility. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that this was a severe waxless phenotype, because stems of CUT1-suppressed plants were completely devoid of wax crystals. Furthermore, chemical analyses of waxless plants demonstrated that the stem wax load was reduced to 6 to 7% of wild-type levels. This value is lower than that reported for any of the known eceriferum mutants. The severe waxless phenotype resulted from the downregulation of both the decarbonylation and acyl reduction wax biosynthetic pathways. This result indicates that CUT1 is involved in the production of VLCFA precursors used for the synthesis of all stem wax components in Arabidopsis. In CUT1-suppressed plants, the C24 chain-length wax components predominate, suggesting that CUT1 is required for elongation of C24 VLCFAs. The unique wax composition of CUT1-suppressed plants together with the fact that the location of CUT1 on the genetic map did not coincide with any of the known ECERIFERUM loci suggest that we have identified a novel gene involved in wax biosynthesis. CUT1 is currently the only known gene with a clearly established function in wax production.
Weight Optimization for Consensus Algorithms With Correlated Switching Topology

We design the weights in consensus algorithms for spatially correlated random topologies. These arise with 1) networks with spatially correlated random link failures and 2) networks with randomized averaging protocols. We show that the weight optimization problem is convex for both symmetric and asymmetric random graphs. With symmetric random networks, we choose the consensus mean-square error (MSE) convergence rate as the optimization criterion and explicitly express this rate as a function of the link formation probabilities, the link formation spatial correlations, and the consensus weights. We prove that the MSE convergence rate is a convex, nonsmooth function of the weights, enabling global optimization of the weights for arbitrary link formation probabilities and link correlation structures. We extend our results to the case of asymmetric random links. We adopt as optimization criterion the mean-square deviation (MSdev) of the nodes' states from the current average state. We prove that MSdev is a convex function of the weights. Simulations show that significant performance gain is achieved with our weight design method when compared with other methods available in the literature.
A Technique of a Stability Domain Determination for Nonlinear Discrete Polynomial Systems

Abstract This paper is devoted to the asymptotic stability region estimation for nonlinear discrete polynomial systems. An algebraic method is derived for the enlargement of a guaranteed stability region in which the asymptotic stability is ensured. The advantages of the proposed method are the accuracy of determination of the largest stability boundary, its numerical and theoretical robustness and its applicability to wide classes of dynamical discrete systems. A numerical example illustrates the proposed method.
Keystone flap: versatile flap for reconstruction of limb defects.

BACKGROUND There is always a constant search for a new solution to tackle defects in the limbs. The technique has to be simple, easily reproducible and performed within a short duration. The answer is keystone island flap keystone flap is a simple, less time consuming, durable and easily reproducible option to reconstruct most of the limb defects. AIM The aim of this article is to study the usefulness of keystone flap in reconstruction of various upper and lower limb defects. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective review involves study of 20 patients undergoing keystone flap reconstruction for various defects from 2012 to 2014. Patient demographic data, medical histories, comorbidities, surgical indications, defect characteristics and locations, hospitalization, complications and follow-up were evaluated and are presented as uncontrolled case series. RESULTS Ages of the patients were ranging from 18 to 65 y with an average of 38.75y. Among the defects, 10 were following trauma (50%), 5 were due to tumour resection (25%), 3 followed debridement of abscess (15%) and another 2 defects were due to surgical wound dehiscence (10%). The largest defect covered by this flap in our study measured 45 x 18 cm and the smallest defect was 8 x4 cm. The average intra-operative time was 45.5 min (range 20-90 min). Fourteen flaps were done to cover lower limb defects (70%), 4 for upper limb defects and 2 were for defects in the axilla. Partial flap necrosis was observed in one case. The average duration of hospital stay of patients was 3.45 d. All patients were followed until they achieved stable, healed wound.The overall success rate was 95%. CONCLUSION Keystone flap can be safely used to cover various limb defects with minimal pain, a sensate cover and excellent cosmetic outcome, minimizing the need for microsurgical techniques or prolonged operative time.
A Meta‐Analysis to Review Organizational Outcomes Related to Charismatic Leadership

Abstract This study applied meta-analysis to assess the relationship between charismatic leadership style and leadership effectiveness, subordinate performance, subordinate satisfaction, subordinate effort, and subordinate commitment. Results indicate that the relationship between leader charisma and leader effectiveness is much weaker than reported in the published literature when leader effectiveness is measured at the individual level of analysis and when common method variance is controlled. Results also indicate a smaller relationship between charismatic leadership and subordinate performance when subordinate performance is measured at the individual level (r = 0.31) than when it is measured at the group level (r = 0.49 and robust across studies). These results suggest that charismatic leadership is more effective at increasing group performance than at increasing individual performance. Other moderators tested did not account for a significant portion of variance in the observed distribution of correlations, suggesting a need for further research into other potential moderators. Meta-analysis examining the effects of charismatic leadership on subordinate effort and job satisfaction revealed lower correlations when multiple methods of measurement were used, with little convergence toward stable population estimates. Resume La meta-analyse a servi a evaluer le rapport entre le style de leadership charismatique et l'efficacite d'un tel style de leadership ainsi que le rendement, la satisfaction, l'effort et l'engagement des subalternes. Les resul-tats obtenus indiquent que le rapport entre le charisme et l'efficacite du leader est beaucoup plusfaible que le pro-posent les textes publies a ce sujet lorsque l'efficacite du leader est mesuree au niveau individuel et lorsque la variance de la methode commune est controlee. Les resultats obtenus revelent egalement un rapport moindre entre le leadership charismatique et le rendement des subalternes lorsque ce rendement est mesure au niveau individuel (r = 0.31) qu'au niveau du groupe (r = 0,49 et notable parmi toutes les etudes passees en revue). Ces resultats suggerent qu'un leadership charismatique con-tribue davantage a accroitre le rendement du groupe que le rendement individuel. Les autres moderateurs mis a l'essai ne represented pas une portion significative de la variance dans la distribution des correlations observees, ce qui laisser suggerer qu'une autre recherche serait necessaire pour verifier d'autres moderateurs potentiels. La meta-analyse qui etudie l'incidence du leadership charismatique sur l'effort des subalternes et la satisfaction professionnelle demontre des correlations moins marquees, lorsque des methodes de mesure multiples one ete utilisees, de měme qu'une convergence minime a l'egard des estimations de population stable.