Background Older adults undergoing emergency abdominal surgery have significantly
poorer outcomes than younger adults. For those who survive, the level of care required on …

Many colorectal procedures can be performed laparoscopcially and frequently involve the
formation of a stoma. This study aims to demonstrate whether there is an association …

Purpose Antegrade continent enema (ACE) procedures have been used as a treatment of
constipation and soiling. Little is known about the long-term results of these procedures …

Purpose This study reports the results of laparoscopic rectopexy in children. Methods
Results were obtained from a prospective database for all laparoscopic rectopexy …

The field of coloproctology covers the treatment of both benign and cancerous disease of the
colon, rectum and anus. Significant recent developments in the surgical treatment of …

Agricultural, nonpoint pollution has increasingly become the focus of state and federal water
quality mitigation efforts. However, this pollution is spatially dispersed and temporally …

The self-organising tree map (SOTM), which is a variation of the self-organising map, is
studied for the purpose of unsupervised data clustering. This method is applied to …

Discharge of excess nutrients into surface water by agricultural production is a significant
source of water pollution throughout the United States. A number of mechanisms can be …

This paper presents two methods of digital edge linking that have a reasonable correlation
with psychological properties employed by human users. In the first method, each endpoint …

Aims: Computed tomography colonography (CTC) is seen as a more tolerable alternative to
colonoscopy, but patients struggle with the steps required for optimal diagnostic imaging …