Non-Linear Regression Modelling to Estimate the Global Warming Potential of a Newspaper.

Technological innovations are not enough by themselves to achieve social and environmental sustainability in companies. Sustainable development aims to determine the environmental impact of a product and the hidden price of products and services through the concept of radical transparency. This means that companies should show and disclose the impact on the environment of any good or service.

The additional benefit of residual spraying and insecticide-treated curtains for dengue control over current best practice in Cuba: Evaluation of disease incidence in a cluster randomized trial in a low burden setting with intensive routine control.

Background: Aedes control interventions are considered the cornerstone of dengue control programmes, but there is scarce evidence on their effect on disease. We set-up a cluster randomized controlled trial in Santiago de Cuba to evaluate the entomological and epidemiological effectiveness of periodical intra- and peri-domiciliary residual insecticide (deltamethrin) treatment (RIT) and long lasting insecticide treated curtains (ITC).

Methodology/principal Findings: Sixty three clusters (around 250 households each) were randomly allocated to two intervention (RIT and ITC) and one control arm.

Incremental cost of implementing residual insecticide treatment with delthametrine on top of intensive routine Aedes aegypti control.

Objective: Information on the cost of implementing residual insecticide treatment (RIT) for Aedes control is scarce. We evaluated the incremental cost on top of intensive conventional routine activities of the Aedes control programme (ACP) in the city of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

Methods: We conducted the cost analysis study in 2011-2012, from the perspective of the ACP.

Two-port laparoscopic radical cystectomy with reusable umbilical system: a feasibility study.

Objective: To describe the technique and report outcomes of laparoscopic radical cystectomy using 2 ports (2-port LRC) for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Patients And Methods: Prospective study was performed between November 2011 and October 2012 to standardize 2-port LRC, lymph node dissection, and urinary diversion. Twenty patients were intervened (8 ileal conduit, 12 neobladder) and followed up for >1 yr.

Umbilical laparoendoscopic urological surgery with a novel reusable device.

Objective: The aims of this study were to present cumulative experience with umbilical laparoendoscopic urological surgery using a reusable device and to evaluate outcomes and complications in the first 100 patients.

Material And Methods: Patients undergoing umbilical surgery with the KeyPort system and DuoRotate instruments (Richard Wolf, Knittlingen, Germany) were evaluated prospectively. Demographic, intraoperative and postoperative data were assessed.

Initial experience of umbilical laparoendoscopic single-site nephron-sparing surgery with KeyPort and DuoRotate system.

Objectives: To present the feasibility of laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) using new reusable umbilical single-port system and instruments.

Methods: A prospective study was performed to evaluate operative data and patient outcomes after LESS-NSS with KeyPort®, a tri-channel single-port placed through a 2.5-cm umbilical incision, and specific DuoRotate® instruments.

Umbilical KeyPort bilateral laparoscopic orchiectomy in patient with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome.

Main Findings: A 22-year-old woman with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) presenting with primary amenorrhea and normal female external genitalia was referred for laparoscopic gonadectomy. She had been diagnosed several years earlier but was reluctant to undergo surgery. Case

Hypothesis: Diagnosis of this X-linked recessive inherited syndrome characterizes by disturbance of virilization in males with an AR mutation, XY karyotipe, female genitalia and severely undescended testis with risk of malignization.

Safety study of umbilical single-port laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with a new DuoRotate system.

Background: Laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) radical prostatectomy (RP) has been performed through different approaches. A new DuoRotate manual system developed by Richard Wolf (KeyPort; Richard Wolf GmbH, Knittlingen, Germany) can be applied to RP.

Objectives: Our aim was to describe the surgical technique and report early outcomes of KeyPort LESS-RP to determine if this procedure is feasible and safe.

Percutaneous ureteral catheterization in laparoscopic surgery: value of nephroscopy needle trocar.

Objectives: To report our experience with use of the nephroscopy needle trocar for percutaneous catheterization. In multiple urologic procedures, surgeons use ureteral catheters to decrease morbidity, increase the success rate, and allow for postoperative radiographic follow-up. The advent of laparoscopic surgery has logically required catheterization to be adapted to our laparoscopic procedures.