Aims: To develop a minimum set of standard questions to include on a bowel diary for assessing fecal incontinence in adults. Methods: An interdisciplinary team of ICS members searched and reviewed the literature, analyzed 32 bowel diaries from 9 countries, obta...

Pelvic floor disorders encompass a spectrum of different functional and anatomical disorders, which often require input from different disciplines. Usually, patients are referred with one main complaint, but often other symptoms are associated. For example, a patient referred with rectal prolapse...

Introduction: The terminology for anorectal dysfunction in men has long needed a specific clinically-based Consensus Report. Methods: This Report combines the input of a Working Group of members of the International Continence Society (ICS), assisted at intervals by exte...

Hydrogen offers a credible route to zero-carbon combustion in internal combustion engines and can deliver high thermal efficiency, but its physical and combustion properties create persistent challenges in fuel delivery, storage, and NOx control. This work reports experiments on a boosted si...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success in image-related tasks, yet their deployment in high-risk domains remains constrained by the lack of interpretable and empirically testable decision evidence. Existing gradient- and saliency-based methods typically highlight coarse influentia...

Sparse suffix sorting is the problem of sorting b = o(n) suffixes of a string of length n. Efficient sparse suffix sorting algorithms have existed for more than a decade. Despite the multitude of works and their justified claims for applications in text indexing, the...

Frequent pattern mining is a flagship problem in data mining. In its most basic form, it asks for the set of substrings of a given string S of length n that occur at least τ times in S, for some integer τ ϵ[1,n]. We introduce a resilient version of thi...

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In this study, the effect of three different levels of iron impurity on the grain structure and texture of a fibrous AA6110 alloy after hot extrusion was investigated. Microstructural examination was carried out to measure the microtexture and the results were correlated with tensi...