This consensus statement presents a comprehensive and evidence-based set of guidelines for the care of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in both adult and pediatric popul...
This paper describes an adaptation of Tabu Search, a recent technique to overcome local optimality, to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). Computational experiments with dif...
ABSTRACT After injury, the wound space is filled with a fibrin/fibronectin clot containing growth factors released by platelets and monocytes. In response to these factors, fibr...
ABSTRACT Transforming growth factor-β, a potent modulator of cell function, induces fibroblasts cultured on plastic to increase collagen synthesis. In 5- and 7-day porcine skin ...
Background: Surgical resection is a widely used treatment for cancer. Patients can be “seeded” with their own cancer cells during surgery, and it has been postulated that the im...