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Preoperative Skin Conditioning: Extracellular Matrix Clearance and Skin Bed Preparation, A New Paradigm.
This paper introduces the concept of "skin bed preparation" prior to surgical procedures. Following the theory of chronic wound bed preparation and adapting the skin model to one of chronic wound changes related to extrinsic and intrinsic factors, a topical formulation aimed at recycling the extracellular matrix (ECM) from accumulated waste products is evaluated and discussed. The clearance of these products and stimulation of new replacements has the potential to change the regenerative milieu of the skin so that when procedures are carried out, cellular signaling and cross-talk at the dermal level are improved and healing is optimized. By introducing a combination of peptides and other synergistic active agents, a sequence of clearance, regeneration, and remodeling is initiated. This is confirmed and validated by a series of biopsies and clinical studies that demonstrate changes in the ECM as early as 2 to 3 weeks after application. Clinical studies related to resurfacing procedures show accelerated healing and improved symptomatic relief compared with standard of care by preconditioning the skin 2 weeks prior to the procedure. A similar approach is suggested as a potential advantage for invasive surgical procedures based on similar scientific principles elucidated on in the text
Surgery description of colored knots
The pair (K,r) consisting of a knot K and a surjective map r from the knot
group onto a dihedral group is said to be a p-colored knot. D. Moskovich
conjectured that for any odd prime p there are exactly p equivalence classes of
p-colored knots up to surgery along unknots in the kernel of the coloring. We
show that there are at most 2p equivalence classes. This is a vast improvement
upon the previous results by Moskovich for p=3, and 5, with no upper bound
given in general. T. Cochran, A. Gerges, and K. Orr, in "Dehn surgery
equivalence relations of 3-manifolds", define invariants of the surgery
equivalence class of a closed 3-manifold M in the context of bordisms. By
taking M to be 0-framed surgery of the 3-sphere along K we may define
Moskovich's colored untying invariant in the same way as the Cochran-Gerges-Orr
invariants. This bordism definition of the colored untying invariant will be
then used to establish the upper bound.Comment: 41 pages, 23 figures (Version 3) Minor revisions and typos fixed.
Proofs of Propositions 4.1 and 4.8 revise
Ground State Phases of the Doped 4-Leg t-J Ladder
Using density matrix renormalization group techniques, we have studied the
ground state of the 4-leg t-J ladder doped near half-filling. Depending upon
J/t and the hole doping x, three types of ground state phases are found: (1) a
phase containing d_{x^2-y^2} pairs; (2) a striped CDW domain-wall phase, and
(3) a phase separated regime. A CDW domain-wall consists of fluctuating hole
pairs and this phase has significant d_{x^2-y^2} pair field correlations.Comment: 10 pages, with 6 Postscript figure
d_{x^2-y^2} Pair Domain Walls
Using the density matrix renormalization group, we study domain wall
structures in the t-J model at a hole doping of x=1/8. We find that the domain
walls are composed of d_{x^2-y^2} pairs and that the regions between the domain
walls have antiferromagnetic correlations that are pi phase shifted across a
domain wall. At x=1/8, the hole filling corresponds to one hole per two domain
wall unit cells. When the pairs in a domain wall are pinned by an external
field, the d_{x^2-y^2} pairing response is suppressed, but when the pinning is
weakened, d_{x^2-y^2} pair-field correlations can develop.Comment: 11 pages, with 3 Postscript figure
Limits on the Halo White Dwarf Component of Baryonic Dark Matter from the {\em Hubble Deep Field}
The MACHO collaboration lensing event statistics suggest that a significant
fraction of the dark galactic halo can be comprised of baryonic matter in the
form of white dwarf stars with masses between 0.1 and 1.0 \Msun . Such a halo
white dwarf population, in order to have escaped detection by those who observe
the white dwarf luminosity function of the disk, must have formed from an old
population. The observations indicate that the number of halo white dwarfs per
cubic parsec per unit bolometric magnitude is less than at
\Lsun; the number must rise significantly at lower luminosities to
provide the needed baryonic halo mass. Such white dwarfs may easily escape
detection in most current and earlier surveys. Though it is limited in angular
extent, the {\em Hubble Deep Field} (HDF) probes a sufficient volume of the
galactic halo to provide interesting limits on the number of halo white dwarf
stars, and on the fraction of the halo mass that they can make up. If the HDF
field can be probed for stars down to then the MACHO result suggests
that there could be up to 12 faint halo white dwarfs visible in the HDF.
Finding (or not finding) these stars in turn places interesting constraints on
star formation immediately following the formation of the galaxy.Comment: 10 pages, AASTEX, 1 table, no figures, accepted for publication in
Ap.J. Letter
Checkerboard patterns in the t-J model
Using the density matrix renormalization group, we study the possibility of
real space checkerboard patterns arising as the ground states of the t-J model.
We find that checkerboards with a commensurate (pi,pi) background are not low
energy states and can only be stabilized with large external potentials.
However, we find that striped states with charge density waves along the
stripes can form approximate checkerboard patterns. These states can be
stabilized with a very weak external field aligning and pinning the CDWs on
different stripes.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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