Rejuvenation Techniques Research Articles

Upper eyelid blepharoplasty using plasma exeresis: Evaluation of outcomes, satisfaction, and symptoms after procedure.

Facial care treatments have grown a remarkable demand for effective and minimally invasive techniques with fast recovery time. Plasma technology is a nonsurgical alternative technique for skin rejuvenation. We assessed patient satisfaction and symptoms after upper eyelid blepharoplasty with plasma technology. Observational study including 16 patients submitted to upper eyelid blepharoplasty using plasma technology to treat dermatochalasis. Patient satisfaction, symptoms, and quality of life were assessed using 2 questionnaires at follow-up days 7 and 30. Also, the answers were correlated with age, Fitzpatrick skin type, and quantity of eyelid skin treated with plasma. All 16 patients were treated and completed the survey. Fourteen (87.5%) were female, and the mean age was 50.5years. Physical appearance was the most relevant factor impacting on quality of life at first week postoperative. Regarding satisfaction with results, most patients stated higher level of satisfaction at day 7 follow-up analysis (P=.038). Less impact on quality of life and higher satisfaction was associated with eyelid-treated area (P=.044 and P=.036) and Fitzpatrick skin type (P=.043) at 7 and 30days after procedure, respectively. Eyelid edema and itching were the symptoms most reported at 7 and 30days, respectively. Upper blepharoplasty with plasma is a minimally invasive treatment with low impact on quality of life. However, overall patient satisfaction is questionable when considering less willing of undergoing procedure again and decreased expectation with results over postoperative period. Symptoms are reported mainly at the first week after procedure.

Non-surgical techniques for facial rejuvenation

Introduction: Non-surgical techniques to correct aesthetic facial changes associated with the ageing process are a huge part of the ever expanding cosmetic industry due to a lack of regulation and because practitioners do not need to trained doctors or cosmetic surgeons. Commonly used techniques are the use of Botulinum toxin injections, injectable fillers and thread lift procedures.

An analysis of software aging in cloud environment

Cloud Computing is the environment in which several virtual machines (VM) run concurrently on physical machines. The cloud computing infrastructure hosts multiple cloud service segments that communicate with each other using the interfaces. This creates distributed computing environment. During operation, the software systems accumulate errors or garbage that leads to system failure and other hazardous consequences. This status is called software aging. Software aging happens because of memory fragmentation, resource consumption in large scale and accumulation of numerical error. Software aging degrads the performance that may result in system failure. This happens because of premature resource exhaustion. This issue cannot be determined during software testing phase because of the dynamic nature of operation. The errors that cause software aging are of special types. These errors do not disturb the software functionality but target the response time and its environment. This issue is to be resolved only during run time as it occurs because of the dynamic nature of the problem. To alleviate the impact of software aging, software rejuvenation technique is being used. Rejuvenation process reboots the system or re-initiates the softwares. This avoids faults or failure. Software rejuvenation removes accumulated error conditions, frees up deadlocks and defragments operating system resources like memory. Hence, it avoids future failures of system that may happen due to software aging. As service availability is crucial, software rejuvenation is to be carried out at defined schedules without disrupting the service. The presence of Software rejuvenation techniques can make software systems more trustworthy. Software designers are using this concept to improve the quality and reliability of the software. Software aging and rejuvenation has generated a lot of research interest in recent years. This work reviews some of the research works related to detection of software aging and identifies research gaps.

Complications Following Facial Thread-Lifting

ABSTRACT Background Facial thread-lifting (FTL) is a minimally invasive facial rejuvenation technique. However, to date, no study has focused on the treatment of complications associated with FTL. The purpose of this study was to report on clinical manifestations of complications following FTL and their treatment methods. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of patients who presented with complications of FTL. Patient demographics, medical history, types and clinical manifestations of complications, imaging, treatment methods, histopathological findings, and follow-up information were collected. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed. Results Our sample included 61 patients, all women, with a mean age of 36.3 ± 8.9 years. The most common reason for consultation was infection (31.2%), followed by dissatisfaction with postoperative facial contour (23%), paresthesia (19.7%), dimpling and irregularity (16.4%), subcutaneous induration (13.1%), thread extrusion (4.9%), and facial nerve injury (3.3%). Fifty-one (83.6%) patients reported alleviated symptoms after receiving pharmaceutical and physical therapies. Surgical interventions, including debridement and thread removal, were required in 10 patients (16.4%). Threads were completely or partially removed in 5 patients within 3 months of the initial FTL. During a median follow-up of 1.7 years, 9 patients recovered well and were satisfied with the clinical outcomes, whereas one patient was unsatisfied due to dimpling and scarring. Conclusions The results show that most complications after FTL can be treated non-surgically. Revision surgery is recommended for patients with recurrent infection, thread extrusion, and subcutaneous induration. Aesthetic surgeons and dermatologists should comply with the indications for FTL and optimize surgical procedures to minimize the risk of complications.

Autonomic rejuvenation of cloud applications as a countermeasure to software anomalies

SummaryFailures in computer systems can be often tracked down to software anomalies of various kinds. In many scenarios, it might be difficult, unfeasible, or unprofitable to carry out extensive debugging activity to spot the cause of anomalies and remove them. In other cases, taking corrective actions may led to undesirable service downtime. In this article, we propose an alternative approach to cope with the problem of software anomalies in cloud‐based applications, and we present the design of a distributed autonomic framework that implements our approach. It exploits the elastic capabilities of cloud infrastructures, and relies on machine learning models, proactive rejuvenation techniques, and a new load balancing approach. By putting together all these elements, we show that it is possible to improve both availability and performance of applications deployed to heterogeneous cloud regions and subject to frequent failures. Overall, our study demonstrates the viability of our approach, thus opening the way towards its adoption, and encouraging further studies and practical experiences to evaluate and improve it.

Service Availability Analysis in a Virtualized System: A Markov Regenerative Model Approach

With the rapid and wide development and deployment of system virtualization, service availability analysis has become increasingly important in a virtualized system (VS) which suffers from software aging. Software rejuvenation techniques can be applied to improve service availability but its effectiveness depends on the rejuvenation policy, which defines when and where to rejuvenate, and which rejuvenation technique to be triggered. This article aims to analyze the optimal inspection time interval for maximizing application service (AS) availability under a three-level rejuvenation policy, in which rejuvenation techniques are deployed at each level, namely, AS, virtual machine (VM), and virtual machine monitor (VMM) levels. We first apply Markov regenerative process to construct an analytical model for the VS. Experiments of injecting memory leaks are conducted to measure aging-related parameters. Furthermore, numerical analysis is carried out to study the quantitative relationship between AS availability and inspection time interval, and determine the approximate optimal inspection time interval.

Material development approach matching to an injection moulding rejuvenation for cable insulation failure

This paper aims to construct a material developing approach matching to an injection moulding rejuvenation technique for cable insulation failure. The work starts from a chemical composition testing to the cable original insulation material. The applied composition should be determined by considerations of property requirements, including insulation, mechanical behaviour and environmental adaptability. In addition, a stable and standard manufacture technology should be groped to assure having a stable repair quality. Finally, proper material should be verified by testing for meeting normal the cable insulation requirements. By the above approach, typical material development is performed and the results by a code-based insulation property testing reveal the present approach has successfully been applied to develop a proper material matching to injection moulding rejuvenation technique for cable insulation failure.

Genital Beautification and Rejuvenation with Combined Use of Surgical and Non-surgical Methods.

In female genital rejuvenation and beautification, interest and demand for combined surgical and non-surgical methods are increasing. This study presents the results of our labia minora reduction technique and a vulvovaginal rejuvenation and beautification concept, where a combination of fat injection into the mons pubis and labia majora, if necessary, combined with fractional carbon dioxide (CO2) laser is used. Genital rejuvenation and beautification were performed on 37 patients between January 2014 and January 2019. Postoperative follow-up for 1year to obtain data on the satisfaction of surgical and non-surgical procedures was performed. Of the 37 female patients included in the study, 33 (94.5%) were satisfied or very satisfied with their postoperative appearance. Thirty (80%) patients were satisfied or very satisfied with functional results. The described genital beautification and rejuvenation technique combines different aesthetic female genital surgery techniques and non-surgical noninvasive procedures. These procedures, like other plastic surgeries and procedures, are designed for the subjective improvement of the patients' appearance and feelings. This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Maximizing Thread Usage for Facial Rejuvenation: A Preliminary Patient Study.

Surgical facial rejuvenation techniques with thread lifting have gained popularity. To effectively rejuvenate an aging face, it is necessary to perform both soft tissue envelop repositioning and volume restoration procedures. With the trend toward less invasive techniques and long-lasting results with minimal complications, many surgeons have continued changing the techniques. In the present study, we developed the 4M (Multi-target, Multi-vector, Multi-layer, Multi-material) thread lift technique for long-lasting results. A prospective study was conducted on 73 patients who underwent the 4M thread lifting procedure between January 2016 and February 2018. To evaluate the surgical outcomes objectively, two plastic surgeons compared photographs using a 5-point Global Aesthetic Improvement Scale (GAIS) at 1, 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24months of follow-up. Based on the GAIS objective assessment, in most patients (85%) experienced better than 3 score ("improved") changes. Approximately 42.5% of the patients experienced better than 4 score ("much improved") changes. The mean GAIS grade improved significantly (p < 0.005) without decline throughout a period of 12months. No serious adverse complication was observed except one patient, who experienced skin irregularities and dimpling for up to 9months after the procedure. This 4M thread lifting is the multiple layer lifting and rejuvenation using different materials in addition to the multiple targets. Using the concepts of structural rejuvenation, the 4M thread lifting technique presented modest to significant improvement, maintaining good results at 12months after procedure. This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

Penyuluhan Anti Narkoba Berbasis Spiritual Islam

Islamic spiritual based anti-drugs counseling is a program of community empowerment activities in Sufism and psychotherapy that aims to increase teacher and community knowledge in preventing drug abuse among students in Batang District. Community empowerment activities through Islamic spiritual-based anti-drug counseling use discussion methods, lectures with audiovisual media, and role playing. The number of respondents was 20 teachers of guidance counseling and 10 community leaders. The results of the activity obtained an increase in the knowledge of guidance counseling teachers and community leaders from 13% to 83% in the good category. In addition, indicate the benefits of Islamic spiritual based anti-drug counseling on the knowledge of guidance counseling teachers and community leaders. Activities undertaken include: providing an understanding of the dangers of drug abuse; do role playing cure drug addicts through Islamic spirituality with Qolbu Brain Rejuvenation (ROQ) techniques, and conduct monitoring and evaluation. Islamic spiritual based anti-drugs counseling activities are considered effective and can be used as an alternative preventing drug abuse in Batang Regency. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/abdimas.v5i2.4059

Eco-rejuvenation of degraded land by microbe assisted bamboo plantation

Eco-restoration is a technique for rejuvenation of degraded ecosystem to their near original state. It also helps to control soil erosion, develop microbial ecology, enhance biomass production and socio-economic development. The present study was focused on a new approach called Eco-Rejuvenation Technology (ERT) for reclamation and ecological/biodiversity restoration of degraded land. To demonstrate this technology, plantation of seedlings of 5 different bamboo species (Bambusa balcooa Roxb., Bambusa vulgaris var. vittata (Schrad. ex Wendl) (Green), Bambusa vulgaris var. striata (Yellow), Bambusa nutans Wall. ex Munro and Dendrocalamus asper (Schult.f.) Backer ex Heyne) was carried out in a village community degraded land located in Central India where organic amendments, such as press mud, farmyard manure and bio-fertilizers were apllied. This study showed how ERT benefited the growth of bamboo (viz., increased height, diameter, number of culms) and further explained how it could help in increasing soil biomass and carbon sequestration capacity over a period of one year. The results reflected that the success of a rural wasteland restoration program depends on community participation and socio-economic factors as well as ecological improvement. In this study, the soil organic carbon (SOC) was restored to nearly 1% within a year. It clearly suggested that ERT is a potential tool for sustainable rural development through native biodiversity development on degraded land.

KAITAN BIAYA DAN TEKNIK PEREMAJAAN KELAPA SAWIT RAKYAT

Linkages between Costs and Rejuvenation Techniques of People's Palm Oil. Palm oil commodity occupies an important and quite strategic position for Jamb Province, which is; 1). As a large foreign exchange earner; 2). Involving approximately 206,787 families and workers; 3). Acceleration of regional / regional development; 4). Opening the field of business and employment; 5). Reducing poverty, and; 6). Improving the welfare of farmers and society. Writing this paper aims to provide an overview: 1). The area of ​​oil palm plantation that needs to be rejuvenated; 2). The amount of costs and the choice of spelling techniques. The data used are secondary data and other relevant information. Of the total plantation area of ​​Jambi Province, around 48% (791,025 ha) is an oil palm plantation area, consisting of 59.11% of community plantations, 38.26% of PBS plantations, and 2.63.% Of PTPN 6. farms. By age, up to 2020 the area covered by should be rejuvenated to reach 185,834 ha. For state-owned oil and palm oil plantation companies (PTPN), to rejuvenate plantations with conventional techniques, their oil palms relatively face no constraints, because they have the funds and or access to the required costs more openly. Whereas for farmers, most of them, to rejuvenate their oil palms in accordance with the economic age and carried out conventionally is difficult to do, because of the absence / lack of funds or capital required, in addition to losing the main source of income as long as the oil palm has not produced. Intercroping rejuvenation technique is the most choice that will be done by farmers.

Adjuncts to Facial Rejuvenation

The preferred methods for facial rejuvenation have been changing over the past decade, with operative procedures on the decline and minimally invasive, office-based procedures on the rise. As a result, it is critical for plastic surgery practitioners to understand the intricacies of the use of neuromodulators and soft tissue fillers in this milieu. While these procedures are usually performed in an office, without general anesthesia, the risk of significant complications still exists. The knowledge of facial anatomy, techniques, and pitfalls is essential for achieving high quality, predictable, and reproducible results. Likewise, when a complication arises, prompt recognition and appropriate treatment is paramount. In this chapter, the history, purpose, technical guidelines, and complications of adjunctive techniques for facial rejuvenation are reviewed in detail. This review contains 2 tables, and 52 references. Keywords: facial rejuvenation, neuromodulator, soft tissue filler, botulinum toxin, dermal filler, aging face, facial rhytids, filler complications, glabellar lines, nasolabial fold

"Not Above, Not Below: Right in the Middle!"-Novel Filler Technique for Temporal Augmentation and Rejuvenation.

The temporal region is challenging to treat due to its thin skin, which has the propensity toward showing irregularities. The literature on temporal hollowing augmentation suggests placing the filler either into the subcutaneous space or within the temporalis muscle. However, these techniques have been based upon opinion rather than supporting anatomical and clinical data. We introduce a novel injection technique to avoid complications and achieve lasting results. This novel technique was confirmed with a cadaver model, in vivo model, and application to a human subject. The anatomical layers of the temporal region were highlighted: the skin, subcutaneous tissue, temporoparietal fascia (superficial temporal fascia), deep temporal fascia, superficial temporal fat pad, and temporalis muscle. Particular emphasis was placed on identifying the frontal branch of the superficial temporal artery to avoid vascular complications. We believe the potential space between the temporoparietal fascia and the deep temporalis fascia is the safest, most efficacious plane to inject the temporal region with a 27-gauge cannula. Our future goal is to recruit and present a larger series of patients receiving this injection.

Techniques for hand rejuvenation with fillers in aesthetic practice

The hands are an often-overlooked area of aesthetic medicine that can be improved upon to give a more complete anti-ageing improvement. The hand ages similarly to the face, with volume loss, wrinkling and pigmentation changes. The hands also have more tendons and veins, which become exposed with age. Fillers, such as hyaluronic acid and calcium hydroxyapatite, can be used to improve volume loss and camouflage the tendons and veins. To complete the rejuvenation, lasers/IPLs and peels can be used to improve the age spots to the back of the hands.

Quantitative survivability analysis using probability model checking: A study of cluster-based vehicle networks with dual cluster heads

As an important part of future 5G wireless networks, a vehicular network demands safety, reliability and connectivity. In this context, networking survivability is usually considered an important metric to evaluate network performance. In this paper, we propose a survivability model for vehicle communication networking based on dual cluster heads, wherein a backup cluster head (CH) will be activated if the primary CH fails, thereby effectively enhancing the network lifetime. Additionally, we introduce a software rejuvenation strategy for the prime CH to further improve the survivability of the entire network. Using the Probabilistic Symbolic Model Checker (PRISM), we verify and discuss the proposed survivability model via numerical simulations. The results show that network survivability can be effectively improved by introducing an additional CH and further enhanced by adopting the software rejuvenation technique.

The madness of Princess Alice: Sigmund Freud, Ernst Simmel and Alice of Battenberg at Kurhaus Schloß Tegel.

During the winter of 1930, Princess Alice of Battenberg was admitted to Kurhaus Schloß Tegel, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenic paranoia. When Freud was consulted about her case by Ernst Simmel, the Sanatorium's Director, he recommended that the patient's ovaries be exposed to high-intensity X-rays. Freud's suggestion was not based on any psychoanalytic treatment principles, but rooted in a rejuvenation technique to which Freud himself had subscribed. In recommending that psychotic patients should be treated with physical interventions, Freud confirmed his conviction that the clinical applicability of psychoanalysis should not be extrapolated beyond the neuroses, yet he also asserted that a proper consideration of endocrinological factors in the aetiology and treatment of the psychoses should never be excluded.

A feedback control approach for preventing system resource exhaustion caused by software aging

The dynamic behavior of software systems attracts widened attention through the phenomenon of software aging. Software aging is caused by runtime environment deterioration, such as the gradual loss of memory or CPU cycles. The dynamic behavior of aged software systems can be described by a set of evolving resource variables, including CPU usage, I/O bandwidth, available memory and the like. From this point of view, an aging software system can be analogous to a dynamic system. Control theory provides sound and rigorous mathematical principles to analyze dynamic systems and build controllers for them. This paper introduces control theory to analyze and build a control model and apply control techniques to an aged web server. First, we treated the software system as a black box, and conducted controlled experiments to build the relationship between input and output. Then, these input-output couples are used to build a control model via a system identification method. Finally, a PI (proportional-integral) controller is designed to adjust the aged state of the software system, and software rejuvenation techniques are customized to target the web server. Performance testing shows that our approach can accurately track the reference value set by the website administrator.

Analyzing Software Rejuvenation Techniques in a Virtualized System: Service Provider and User Views

Virtualization technology has promoted the fast development and deployment of cloud computing, and is now becoming an enabler of Internet of Everything. Virtual machine monitor (VMM), playing a critical role in a virtualized system, is software and hence it suffers from software aging after a long continuous running as well as software crashes due to elusive faults. Software rejuvenation techniques can be adopted to reduce the impact of software aging. Although there existed analytical model-based approaches for evaluating software rejuvenation techniques, none analyzed both application service (AS) availability and job completion time in a virtualized system with live virtual machine (VM) migration. This paper aims to quantitatively analyze software rejuvenation techniques from service provider and user views in a virtualized system deploying VMM reboot and live VM migration techniques for rejuvenation, under the condition that all the aging time, failure time, VMM fixing time and live VM migration time follow general distributions. We construct an analytical model by using a semi-Markov process (SMP) and derive formulas for calculating AS availability and job completion time. By analytical experiments, we can obtain the optimal migration trigger intervals for achieving the approximate maximum AS availability and the approximate minimum job completion time, and then service providers can make decisions for maximizing the benefits of service providers and users by adjusting parameter values.

Standardization of rejuvenation techniques in ber cv. kaithali for semi arid conditions

Standardization of rejuvenation techniques in ber cv. kaithali for semi arid conditions