MAGILLO P.

We address the problem of designing compact data structures for encoding a Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) as a sequential bitstream. In particular, we study the problem of compressing connectivity, i.e., the information describing the topological structure of the TIN and we propose two new compression methods which have different...

Indwelling central venous catheters (CVC) are essential devices in the management of children with oncologic/hematologic diseases or following bone marrow transplantation. The authors report data on the mechanical complications observed in pediatric hematology/oncology patients, collected by a retrospective analysis of clinical records of 482...