Although larger sample sizes would be required to evaluate postoperative complication rate, these results indicate that both the right and left RDN could be performed with similar donor and recipient outcomes.

These data suggest that short-term fasting combined with insulin treatment, especially during the avascular period of the grafts, could therefore be a promising regimen for improving pancreatic islet engraftment in the liver.

We report our experience of two cases of refractory cellulitis caused by peripheral micro-arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) in the lower extremity. The micro-AVFs were so small that they could not be located accurately; further, the patients’ symptoms differed markedly from those previously reported for AVF. AVF is known to cause ischemic symptoms. In contrast, micro-AVF causes congestive symptoms and remains undetected in the majority of patients. Identification of this pathology is crucial to enable effective treatment by the ligation of the incompetent perforator vein that increases venous hypertension, leading to congestive symptoms.

Abstract-Due to the dependency of our daily lives on smartphones, the states of the device have impact on the quality of services offered through a smartphone. In this article, we focus on the carrying states of the device while the user is walking, in which 17 states, e.g., in the front-left trouser pocket, calling phone in the right hand, in a backpack are subjects to recognition based on supervised learning with accelerometer-derived features. A large-scale data collection from 70 persons with three walking speeds allows reliable evaluation regarding suitable features and classifiers model, the feature selection method, robustness of localization against unknown person, and effect of walking speed in training a classifier. Person-independent evaluation shows that average F-measures of 17 class classification and merged 9 class classification were 0.823 and 0.913, respectively.

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