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Surgery is the most common way to treat nonmelanoma skin cancer. Many techniques can be used to remove the cancer. The goal is to completely remove the cancer while trying to limit damage to healthy tissue. This is especially important when the cancer is on the face. The technique your doctor recommends depends on these factors.
The size of the tumor
The type of cancer
The location of the tumor
Whether the area of the tumor is visible, such as on your face
Whether the tumor has spread
Your health status
Whether cancer is likely to occur again
If the area has been treated before and the cancer has recurred
Your doctor will explain which types of surgery may be best for you. For example, your doctor may suggest the Mohs procedure if the tumor's location may affect your appearance, such as on your face. Mohs surgery may also be recommended if the tumor has recurred after previous treatment or if it is large. If the tumor is small or on your limbs or trunk, your doctor may recommend simple excision. Laser treatment and dermabrasion are not as widely used because it is not possible to determine that all the cancer cells were removed with these techniques. These treatments also do not produce a specimen for the pathologist to look at. Your doctor will describe what to expect during and after the surgery.
These are the surgeries used to treat nonmelanoma skin cancer.
During a Mohs procedure, you're given a local anesthetic to numb the area being treated. The cancer is removed from the skin one layer at a time. Each layer is checked under a microscope for cancer. Layers are removed until the doctor doesn't see any more cancer. The procedure is done at one sitting, but it may take several hours, depending on how many layers need to be removed. Upon completion, the cancer is completely removed and the wound can be repaired. The Mohs technique is a tissue-sparing technique, which means it limits the area that is operated on. Mohs surgery may be a good option when any of these things are true:
Your doctor is not sure of the exact depth and shape of the tumor
The tumor is very large
The tumor is located in a difficult-to-treat place
Skin cancer has recurred
Cancer is on the face
You are given a local anesthetic to numb the area. Your doctor then uses a spoon-shaped instrument called a curette to remove the cancer. After curettage, your doctor passes an electric needle over the surface of the scraped area to destroy any remaining cancer cells. After it heals, a flat, white scar may remain.
You are given a local anesthetic. Then, your doctor uses a scalpel to remove the tumor from the skin. The doctor may also remove some of the normal skin around the tumor. This is called a "margin." Depending on the size of the incision, stitches or a sterile bandage strip may be used to close the wound. The tissue that was removed is sent to a pathologist for analysis. If the report reveals that not all the cancer was removed, it's likely you'll need a further procedure to remove the rest of the cancer.
This method is used for superficial cancers. You are given a local anesthetic. Then, your doctor uses a small blade to shave off the tumor. The goal is to remove the tumor at its base.
Your doctor uses an instrument to freeze the tumor. Freezing destroys the cells. The dead skin then falls off after the area thaws. Pain is minimal, although you may have some swelling. A white scar usually results. This technique is best for very small cancers near the skin's surface.
The length of time it takes to recover from surgery is different for each person. The two most common side effects from surgery are pain and scarring.
Surgery causes temporary pain in the area of the operation. You may be uncomfortable during the first few days after surgery, but pain can be controlled with medications. Discuss pain relief with your doctor or nurse.
Any skin surgery leaves scars. The same is true for surgery to remove skin cancer. The size and color of the scar depend on the size of the cancer, its location, the type of surgery, and how well your skin heals. Your doctor will use techniques to hide the scar as much as possible. If stitches were needed to hold the wound closed, they are usually removed about a week after surgery. Healing progresses steadily after that. Early on, the scar may be red or bumpy. It takes about a full year for a scar to finish fading. Be sure to speak with your doctor about ways to aid healing. Most often, though, your body's natural healing abilities are the most powerful and simply take time.
Skin grafts are sometimes needed to close an opening in the skin left by surgery and to leave a cosmetically pleasing appearance. The surgeon numbs and removes a patch of healthy skin from somewhere else in the body, such as the upper thigh or abdomen. The patch is then used to cover the wound. If you have a skin graft, you may receive special instructions about how to care for it until it heals.


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What Can You Really Know?
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story is a portrait gallery of leading modern philosophers. He visited each of them in turn, warning them in advance that he was coming to discuss with them a single question: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" He reports their reactions to this question, and embellishes their words with descriptions of their habits and personalities. Their answers give us vivid glimpses of the speakers but do not solve the riddle of existence.
The philosophers are more interesting than the philosophy. Most of them are eccentric characters who have risen to the top of their profession. They think their deep thoughts in places of unusual beauty such as Paris and Oxford. They are heirs to an ancient tradition of academic hierarchy, in which disciples sat at the feet of sages, and sages enlightened disciples with Delphic utterances. The universities of Paris and Oxford have maintained this tradition for eight hundred years. The great world religions have maintained it even longer. Universities and religions are the most durable of human institutions.
According to Holt, the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century were Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Heidegger supreme in continental Europe, Wittgenstein in the English-speaking world. Heidegger was one of the founders of existentialism, a school of philosophy that was especially attractive to French intellectuals. Heidegger himself lost his credibility in 1933 when he accepted the position of rector of the University of Freiburg under the newly established Hitler government and became a member of the Nazi Party. Existentialism continued to flourish in France after it faded in Germany.
Wittgenstein, unlike Heidegger, did not establish an ism. He wrote very little, and everything that he wrote was simple and clear. The only book that he published during his lifetime was Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, written in Vienna in 1918 and published in England with a long introduction by Bertrand Russell in 1922. It fills less than two hundred small pages, even though the original German and the English translation are printed side by side. I was lucky to be given a copy of the Tractatus as a prize when I was in high school. I read it through in one night, in an ecstasy of adolescent enthusiasm. Most of it is about mathematical logic. Only the last five pages deal with human problems. The text is divided into numbered sections, each consisting of one or two sentences. For example, section 6.521 says: "The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. Is not this the reason why men, to whom after long doubting the sense of life became clear, could not then say wherein this sense consisted?" The most famous sentence in the book is the final section 7: "Wherof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."
I found the book enlightening and liberating. It said that philosophy is simple and has limited scope. Philosophy is concerned with logic and the correct use of language. All speculations outside this limited area are mysticism. Section 6.522 says: "There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself. It is the mystical." Since the mystical is inexpressible, there is nothing more to be said. Holt summarizes the difference between Heidegger and Wittgenstein in nine words: "Wittgenstein was brave and ascetic, Heidegger treacherous and vain." These words apply equally to their characters as human beings and to their intellectual output.
Wittgenstein's intellectual asceticism had a great influence on the philosophers of the English-speaking world. It narrowed the scope of philosophy by excluding ethics and aesthetics. At the same time, his personal asceticism enhanced his credibility. During World War II, he wanted to serve his adopted country in a practical way. Being too old for military service, he took a leave of absence from his academic position in Cambridge and served in a menial job, as a hospital orderly taking care of patients. When I arrived at Cambridge University in 1946, Wittgenstein had just returned from his six years of duty at the hospital. I held him in the highest respect and was delighted to find him living in a room above mine on the same staircase. I frequently met him walking up or down the stairs, but I was too shy to start a conversation. Several times I heard him muttering to himself: "I get stupider and stupider every day."
Finally, toward the end of my time in Cambridge, I ventured to speak to him. I told him I had enjoyed reading the Tractatus, and I asked him whether he still held the same views that he had expressed twenty-eight years earlier. He remained silent for a long time and then said, "Which newspaper do you represent?" I told him I was a student and not a journalist, but he never answered my question.
Wittgenstein's response to me was humiliating, and his response to female students who tried to attend his lectures was even worse. If a woman appeared in the audience, he would remain standing silent until she left the room. I decided that he was a charlatan using outrageous behavior to attract attention. I hated him for his rudeness. Fifty years later, walking through a churchyard on the outskirts of Cambridge on a sunny morning in winter, I came by chance upon his tombstone, a massive block of stone lightly covered with fresh snow. On the stone was written the single word, "WITTGENSTEIN." To my surprise, I found that the old hatred was gone, replaced by a deeper understanding. He was at peace, and I was at peace too, in the white silence. He was no longer an ill-tempered charlatan. He was a tortured soul, the last survivor of a family with a tragic history, living a lonely life among strangers, trying until the end to express the inexpressible.
The philosophers that Holt interviewed wander over a wide landscape. The main theme of their discussions is a disagreement between two groups that I call materialists and Platonists. Materialists imagine a world built out of atoms. Platonists imagine a world built out of ideas. This division into two categories is a gross simplification, lumping together people with a great variety of opinions. Like taxonomists who name species of plants and animals, observers of the philosophical scene may be splitters or lumpers. Splitters like to name many species; lumpers like to name few.
Holt is a splitter and I am a lumper. Philosophers are mostly splitters, dividing their ways of thinking into narrow specialties such as theism or deism or humanism or panpsychism or axiarchism. Examples of each of these isms are to be seen in Holt's collection. I find it more convenient to lump them into two big groups, one obsessed with matter and the other obsessed with mind. Holt asks them to explain why the world exists. For the materialists, the question concerns the origin of space and time and particles and fields, and the relevant branch of science is physics. For the Platonists, the question concerns the origin of meaning and purpose and consciousness, and the relevant science is psychology.
The most impressive of the Platonists is John Leslie, who spent most of his life teaching philosophy at the University of Guelph and is now living in retirement on the west coast of Canada. He calls himself an extreme axiarchist. The word "axiarchism" is Greek for "value rules," meaning that the world is built out of ideas, and the Platonic idea of the Good gives value to everything that exists. Leslie takes seriously Plato's image of the cave as a metaphor of human life. We live in a cave, seeing only shadows cast on the wall by light streaming in from the entrance. The real objects outside the cave are ideas, and all the things that we perceive inside are imperfect images of ideas. Evil exists because our images are distorted. The ultimate reality hidden from our view is Goodness. Goodness is a strong enough force to pull the universe into existence. Leslie understands that this explanation of existence is a poetic fantasy rather than a logical argument. Fantasy comes to the rescue when logic fails. The whole range of Plato's thinking is embodied in his dialogues, which are dramatic reconstructions of the conversations of his master Socrates. They are based on imagination, not on logic.
In 1996 Leslie published a book, The End of the World, taking a gloomy view of the human situation. He was calculating the probable future duration of the human species, basing his argument on the Copernican principle, which says that the situation of the human observer in the cosmos should be in no way exceptional. Copernicus gave his name to this principle when he moved the earth from its position at the center of the Aristotelian universe and put it into a more modest position as one of the planets orbiting around the sun.
Leslie argued that the Copernican principle should apply to our position in time as well as to our position in space. As observers of the passage of time, we should not put ourselves into a privileged position at the beginning of the history of our species. As Copernican observers, we should expect to be in an average position in our history, rather than close to the beginning. Therefore, we should expect the future duration of our species to be not much longer than its past. Since we know that our species originated about a hundred thousand years ago, we should expect it to become extinct about a hundred thousand years from now.
When Leslie published this prognostication, I protested strongly against it, claiming that it was a technically wrong use of the theory of probability. In fact Leslie's argument was technically correct. The reason I did not like the argument was that I did not like the conclusion. I thought that the universe had a purpose, and that our minds were a part of that purpose. Since the goodness of the universe was revealed in our existence as observers, we could rely on the goodness of the universe to allow us to continue to exist. I opposed Leslie's argument because I was a better Platonist than he was.
The antithesis of John Leslie is David Deutsch, whose book The Beginning of Infinity I recently reviewed in these pages.* Holt visited Deutsch at his home in a village a few miles from Oxford. The chapter describing the visit is entitled "The Magus of the Multiverse." Deutsch is a professional physicist who uses physics as a basis for philosophical speculation. Unlike most philosophers, he understands quantum mechanics and feels at home in a quantum universe. He likes the many-universe interpretation of quantum mechanics, invented in the 1950s by Hugh Everett, who was then a student in Princeton. Everett imagined the quantum universe as an infinite assemblage of ordinary universes all existing simultaneously. He called the assemblage the multiverse.
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- Blockage of the airway
- Reduced amount of surfactant, a liquid that keeps the lungs expanded
- Infection
- Tumors, mucus, or a foreign object in the lungs
- Compression, resulting from emphysema , an enlarged heart, or a tumor
- Scarring that blocks the airway as a result of radiation therapy , frequent infections, or disease
- Pneumothorax (leakage of air into the space surrounding the lungs)
- Lung immaturity in premature babies
- Fluid accumulation
- Failure to take deep breaths
- Not coughing, which keeps the airway clear
Risk Factors
- Premature birth if lungs are not fully developed
- Anesthesia
- Restricted chest movement, due to bone or muscle problems, or recent abdominal surgery
- Injuries
- Prolonged bed rest with few changes in position
- Mechanical ventilation
- Lung diseases, such as asthma or lung cancer
- Weakened respiratory muscles
- Smoking
- Heart failure
- Obesity
- Conditions that limit physical activity, such as a stroke , spinal cord injury, heart problems, trauma , or severe illness
- Rapid breathing
- Shortness of breath
- Taking shallow breaths
- Coughing
- Decreased chest movement during breathing
- Mild fever
- Rapid heart rate
- Chest pain
- Blueness of the lips or nails
Physical Therapy
Respiratory Therapy
- Breathing masks or treatments to help keep your airways open
- Incentive spirometry to help you learn to take deeper breaths
- Suction to help remove secretions
- A breathing machine, called a ventilator, if you are unable to breathe adequately on your own
- Medications to open the airways
- Medications or therapy to treat the health condition that caused the collapse
- Antibiotics to treat an infection
- Oxygen, if you are having trouble breathing
- If you need to, talk to your doctor about the best ways to quit smoking and lose weight .
- If you have a chronic lung or heart condition, follow the treatment plan outlined by your doctor.
- After surgery, follow instructions for deep breathing, coughing, and turning. Ask for pain medication if discomfort is limiting movement or coughing.
American Lung Association http://www.lung.org
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov
The Canadian Lung Association http://www.lung.ca
Health Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca
Explore atelectasis. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute website. Available at: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/atl. Updated January 13, 2012. Accessed September 19, 2013.
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Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Textbook of Internal Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2008.
Mason, RJ et al. Murray & Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders; 2007.
Spontaneous pneumothorax in adults. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed.ebscohost.com/about/about-us. Updated June 28, 2013. Accessed September 19, 2013.
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Updated: January 27, 2013 12:26PM
Seven people were killed and another six wounded in weekend violence in Chicago — including two separate double-homicide shootings that occurred about 12 hours apart.
The seven homicides all occurred Saturday, making the day one of the deadliest in recent memory.
On Sunday, a man was shot about 8:40 a.m. in the 4000 block of West Gladys in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, according to police News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada. The 44-year-old victim suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg, but other details of the shooting were not available, Estrada said.
The man was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his condition was stable, according to police.
The most recent death occurred in the South Shore neighborhood at 11:50 p.m. Saturday in the 2500 block of East 73rd Street, police said.
Willie Wilson, 32, was stabbed to death during a domestic dispute at his home, authorities said. He was pronounced dead on the scene with a stab wound to the chest, authorities said.
Police said Sunday morning they picked up "a person of interest" and charges were pending.
About 10 p.m. Saturday night, 38-year-old Norman Stokes was shot to death during an argument inside a home in the 7000 block of South Carpenter Street in the Englewood neighborhood, authorities said. Stokes, of the 6000 block of South Aberdeen Street, was dead at the scene, authorities said.
As with all of Saturday's homicides, by the time officers arrived the man was dead, police said. No one is in custody as Area South detectives investigated.
Earlier in the evening two males were killed about 4 a.m. on the West Side in the second double-homicide of the day. Officers, called to the 4200 block of West Congress Parkway in West Garfield Park, found a teen boy and a man dead in the street with bullet wounds to the head, police said.
Dimitri Buford, 32, of the 1400 block of North Sedgwick, and Antonio Fenner, 16, of the 1440 block of West 15th Street, were both dead on the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
About twelve hours before, two men were killed and another was wounded when a masked gunman walked up to them outside a Bridgeport neighborhood hamburger stand early Saturday and unleashed a barrage of bullets. The shooting outside Kevin's Hamburger Heaven, in the 500 block of West Pershing Road, was the second time in four months that someone has been killed outside an all-night restaurant in Bridgeport.
Customers were inside the restaurant around 4 a.m. when the three men went outside to smoke as they waited for their order. A man in a mask ran up to them, opening fire at close range before running off, according to police.
Alan Smiley, 31, of the 8000 block of South Burnham Avenue, and another man, thought to be in his 30s, were dead on the scene, according to the medical examiner's office. The third man was taken to Stroger Hospital with gunshot wounds to an arm and his abdomen, police said.
Earlier Saturday, a man was fatally shot and another was wounded while sitting in a vehicle on the West Side. It happened around 2:15 a.m. Saturday in the 1100 block of South Mozart Street in Lawndale. Ronnie Chambers, 34, was shot in the head and died at the scene, according to police and the medical examiner's office.
Chambers, a convicted felon and reputed Gangster Disciple gang member, was the fourth sibling in his family to die a violent death, according to the police. His other siblings also died from gunshot wounds, a police source said.
Chambers had 29 arrests and four convictions, including multiple felonies for drug dealing and weapons violations, according to another source.
The 21-year-old man shot with Chambers was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with gunshot wounds to the left shoulder and buttocks, police said.
Hours later Saturday morning, a man was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery in an alley in the 4800 block of West Van Buren Street. A man got out of an older brown car and tried to rob the victim. During a brief struggle, the victim heard a gunshot and realized he had been shot, police said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to his right leg, police said.
On Friday night, a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg in Grand Boulevard on the South Side. The man was in the 0 to 100 block of West 47th Street around 9:55 p.m. when shots were fired and he was hit, police said. The man was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said.
Earlier Friday night, a 32-year-old man was shot in the butt in Logan Square, according to the police.


text: DIGITAL TREASURES : Item Viewer home : browse : advanced search : preferences : my favorites : about : help add to favorites : reference url back to results : previous : next Amos Alonzo Stagg, ca. 1891 TitleAmos Alonzo Stagg, ca. 1891 Full Size Imagehttp://dlib.cwmars.org/cdm4/images/full_size/springfield_college/6.jpg SubjectStagg, Amos Alonzo, 1862-1965--Portraits; International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)--Students--Photographs; International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)--Alumni and alumnae-- Photographs; Football Coaches--United States; Coaching (Athletics) DescriptionA photograph of Amos Alonzo Stagg, ca. 1891, while a student at the International Young Men's Christian Association College, now known as Springfield College. Stagg graduated in 1891 and served as an assistant physical education instructor at Springfield College from 1890-1892. He started the football program at Springfield College and played in the first basketball game, being the only faculty member to score a "basket ball goal" in their 5 to 1 loss to the students. His football teams at Springfield College were known as "Stagg's Eleven" or the "Stubby Christians". During the two years he coached and played football at Springfield College, the "Stubby Christians" went 10-11-1 and played in the first indoor football game in Madison Square Garden against the Yale Consolidated team on December 12, 1890. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Stagg came to be known as the "Grand Old Man of Football". He coached football at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Il.) from 1892-1932 and at the College of the Pacific from 1933 until his retirement in 1946. Over his career he won 314 games. Amos Alonzo Stagg died in 1965 at the age of 102. CreatorW. H. Drew, Stereopticons, Boston, Mass., 1900-1910? PublisherC/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/ Date1891? TypeImage FormatImage/jpg IdentifierSC2144 Languageen-US RelationIs part of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Collection. Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, Springfield, Massachusetts, http://www.spfldcol.edu/archives RightsText and images are owned, held, or licensed by Springfield College and are available for personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that ownership is properly cited. A credit line is required and should read: Courtesy of Springfield College, Babson Library, Archives and Special Collections. Any commercial use without written permission from Springfield College is strictly prohibited. Other individuals or entities other than, and in addition to, Springfield College may also own copyrights and other propriety rights. The publishing, exhibiting, or broadcasting party assumes all responsibility for clearing reproduction rights and for any infringement of United States copyright law. add to favorites : reference url back to results : previous : next powered by CONTENTdm ® | Contact: June Stokoe ~ Digital Initiatives ~ C/W MARS ^ to top ^


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When electromagnetic fields result in a force between two opposite poles, this force, if large enough, causes structural deformation. In some cases, the deformations of the solid are large enough to affect the electromagnetic fields, so that the describing physics must be fully coupled.
Applications of this multiphysics coupling are numerous and varied, ranging from motors and drives to giant industrial electromagnets and railguns to micro-tweezers used in MEMS devices. Modeling this interaction involves the coupling between structural mechanics and electromagnetism.
Electromechanical Analysis of a Comb Drive
The animation shows the electrostatic potential on the comb and the von Mises Stress on the spring of a comb drive, demonstrating how the opposite poles are pulled together as the voltage increases.


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There aren't any other options."
I'll throw myself in front of you."
Monday, 12 July 2010
Teaser Tuesday (On Tuesday!)
9 comments:
- Cara said...
This is such a cute teaser! Makes me wonder what exactly does have Lord Maccon's britches in a bunch, lol. :P
- July 12, 2010 11:43 pm
- Mardel said...
Great tease! I still have the first one waiting for me to read though. :)
- July 13, 2010 1:46 am
- gautami tripathy said...
Interesting book!
Teaser Tuesday: The Likeness by Tana French
- July 13, 2010 1:56 am
- beth said...
Would you mind letting your readers know I'm giving away a $20 Barnes and Noble gift card?
- July 13, 2010 5:33 am
- Emidy said...
Oh, nice teaser! People seem to be liking this series. I should check it out, then!
- July 13, 2010 5:52 am
- Kathy Martin said...
I love these books. I can hardly wait for the 3rd. My teaser is from Legacies by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill.
- July 13, 2010 6:01 am
- Jess. said...
Such a big teaser! But a great one!
My teaser is up at Find the Time to Read, feel free to check it out.
- July 13, 2010 7:15 am
- Adriana said...
I've really been wanting to start this series, but never get around to getting them. The teaser sounds pretty interesting and I love historical fiction, so I'll definitely be buying these books soon.
- July 13, 2010 7:53 am
- Book ♥ Soulmates said...
I loveeee this series and it's quickly become a favorite of mine. I'm practically foaming at the mouth for Blameless - c'monnnn September!
I don't want to rush time, but I really want my book! lol
My teaser this week is from an ARC of Wicked Intentions by Elizabeth Hoyt.
Happy reading :)
- July 13, 2010 1:30 pm


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- The one-dimensional spin-1/2 ANNNI model in non-commuting magnetic fields (2006)
- In this thesis we have investigated the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Axial Next Nearest Neighbour Ising (ANNNI) model in non-commuting magnetic fields. As a starting point we obtained an estimate of the phase diagram of the model by treating the spins as classical vectors. This was followed by an investigation of the zero temperature ground state of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 ANNNI model in a longitudinal magnetic field. By using the symmetries of the Hamiltonian, we were able to diagonalize the longitudinal ANNNI model exactly. We found that there are four different possible ground state configurations for the longitudinal ANNNI model, in the thermodynamic limit. Rayleigh Schroedinger perturbation series for the ground state energy of the ANNNI model in non-commuting fields were then developed in each of the four ordered regions. Order parameters and the associated susceptibilities as well as specific heats were calculated. By application of the finite-size scaling technique it was possible to obtain the phase boundaries of the model numerically. For certain limits of the full Hamiltonian we compared the obtained results with the existing literature and we got good agreement.


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The northern portion of the Central Coast, from Big Sur up to Marin County (just north of San Fran), is within what is known as the "Red Triangle". But attacks have also occurred further south. Whites like the seals and sea lions which apparently have been increasing in numbers.
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Willie Nelson has a stolen armadillo on his mind
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Updated On: Sep 27 2013 08:24:38 AM CDT
Updated On: Sep 27 2013 08:24:38 AM CDT
The search is on for music legend Willie Nelson's stolen armadillo.
According to USA Today, shortly after Nelson's recent concert ended at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y., someone sneaked onto stage and made off with the band's unofficial mascot: A stuffed armadillo named Ol' Dillo.
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Nelson camp took to the singer's Facebook page to ask fans to help in finding the thief.
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Complete with Cot bed, Wardrobe and Dresser
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2 man delivery as standard to the room of your choice. You will be contacted within 5 days of ordering to arrange a delivery date
A complete co-ordinating nursery furniture solution with cot bed, wardrobe and dresser. A Kiddicare bestseller offering incredibly good value for money, the Trio is the perfect ensemble for the compact nursery.
Designed to fit where space is tight, the Trio makes even the smallest nursery look great with each piece of furniture adapting to grow with your baby. The cot bed's three mattress positions enable easy lifting of your newborn when used in the highest position, lowering as little one learns to sit and then again to the bottom when little legs are on the move. Simply removing the sides and separating the ends transforms your baby's cot into an independent toddler bed.
The dresser is the ideal place for frequent nappy changes and the 3 spacious drawers on smooth metal safety runners will keep everything you need neatly to hand. As your baby grows, the dresser can be used as a classic chest of drawers.
Space in the slimline wardrobe can be optimised by using the two shelves for folded clothes, shoes or accessories, or by removing either of them to maximise the vertical space. Deep enough to take adult hangers, this wardrobe could keep even a teenager's bedroom tidy!
Available in two classic finishes, the Trio Roomset is a stylish and dynamic solution to everyday space limitations.
All Kiddicare brand products are designed and tested to the very latest European safety standards. We know you'll put our products through their paces, so we've made sure they're ready!
Wipe with a damp cloth and dry with a soft clean cloth.
Trio cot bed: Box 1 product weight 13.5kg & boxed weight 15kg
Box 2 product weight 14kg & boxed weight 16kg
Trio dresser: Box 1 product weight 18kg & boxed weight 19kg
Box 2 product weight 14.8kg & boxed weight 16kg
Trio wardrobe: Box 1 product weight 15.8kg & boxed weight 16.8kg<
Box 2 product weight 11.8kg & boxed weight 13.4kg
Box 3 product weight 16.8kg & product weight 18.4kg
Remember to regularly check assembly fittings and re-tighten if required.
Always use the changer with a changing mat (sold separately). Changer top suitable to 12 months/11kg weight
Complies with European Safety Standard BS EN 716/BS 8509/BS EN 12221.
Really pleased with the Trio set. I was able to assemble all pieces on my own. The items are very sturdy and easy to build. I have put together other flat pack furniture and the Trio is much higher build quality. The drawers have a metal bar to support middle. There is plenty of storage space which my wife is very happy with. The cotbed is very sturdy and we are happy it was last for a few years yet. I was disappointed with the delivery and packaging. I had to help the driver into the house with all of the large boxes, something I don't think my wife would have managed. The boxes has quite large tears in them and were scuffed in the corners. I had to open most to check. I think this is more the fault of the courier.
So easy to put together and looks great
As we only have a box room for our new arrival we were struggling to find a furniture set to fit into the room. We wanted a full set and needed the single wardrobe. We checked the quality in store before purchasing and for the cost, it was ideal. Once ordered the furniture arrived as stated (great delivery service) and it is now awaiting the arrival of our little one. It fits perfectly allowing us lots of storage and will last until baby is older having the cotbed. Really pleased and would definitely recommend.
Cheap price but top quality and very easy to assemble
Easy to assemble. Don't think could find anything better for price.
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